En Madrid does exists many public and „open” WLAN Access Points. But wit­hout a flat­rate for the mobi­le pho­ne they haven’t a per­ma­nent con­nec­tion to the inter­net. That’s dis­agreeable espe­ci­al­ly if they is at a new city and get lost.

The maps appli­ca­ti­on on the iPho­ne (and may­be with the iPod Touch also) can be used off­line for this too. As soon as you are on a place which you will pro­ba­b­ly visit more often, you can „save” this place as a bookmark.

If you want later go the­re again, you can sel­ect this book­mark y redu­ce the view of the map. Now you can see your actu­al posi­ti­on and your desti­na­ti­on. And thank’s to the com­pass you can straight go in the cor­rect direction.

Today I’ve been back from my short vaca­ti­on trip in Ger­ma­ny. It did­n’t give many to tell, but the adven­ture pho­tos from my flights are may­be interesting:

The flight:

The return flight:

Yes.… may­be a litt­le bit boring.

That’s a nega­ti­ve aspect of fly­ing. In the past, or rather today, if they tra­vel huge distance on the earth, they can­ned / could on long-distance tra­ve­ling noti­ce chan­ges in the envi­ron­ment. The vege­ta­ti­on is chan­ging slow­ly, the buil­dings and signs are chan­cing, also the climate…

If you fly today, you get on an island (air­craft) and get of on ano­ther island. Wit­hout a fee­ling for the distance or land­scape bet­ween the two places. But we could­n’t get all in once. And I did­n’t like the thought that I other­wi­se have to tra­vel through a french spea­king area…