Text by the retired philologist A. L.
When i was a child i read the book “The Only Journey of His Life” by George Vizyinos and i started imagining of the many journeys i would make in my life….. in contrast Continue reading
When i was a child i read the book “The Only Journey of His Life” by George Vizyinos and i started imagining of the many journeys i would make in my life….. in contrast Continue reading
Summer, sun, sea, swimming, words that are connected, words that bring to our minds vacations and relaxation on the beach. Greece has plenty of sun and beaches thus the travelers have many choices! Travels4ever has chosen the most beautiful beaches of the Ionian sea. Continue reading
My initial thought was ” lets go to the seaside….”
That was an ideal choice since the weather in Ioannina was better, with the temperature being similar with the one all around Greece, moreover summer was in our door. However because i woke up late and i had a few errands Continue reading
“There is no better view of Lisbon”! I was absolute and of course i had my photos as a proof. That’s how i persuaded a friend of mine to visit Lisbon, choosing it instead of going a 10-days journey to Barcelona. Indeed the view is Continue reading
When you go to Kalamata…
That’s how the famous song goes. Recently I found myself in this beautiful city of the southwestern Peloponnese, which is the capital of the Messinia Municipality. Kalamata is Continue reading
It’s been three months since i stopped eating sweets! I know that for some this is not a big deal, especially if they are among those people that never eat sweets, however for me its very important. Furthermore my effort is valued even more because Continue reading
A few months ago the travels4ever page on Facebook reached the 500 Likes milestone and now i am happy to announce that the page have reached 1000 Likes. I know that they are not many, especially when other pages have thousands of Likes and even more followers. However this blog is something personal, something that is happening with love and afford and that’s what counts at the end. My personal experiences are presented, here along with photos taken by me ( with others from the Web ), with personal opinions. I would like to thank you for your support this past year and promise you even more articles and photos. You, the readers, give me strength to continue , you the readers have the power for an even better course.
It was a spring day, just a couple of weeks before summer. The temperature was high enough for that period, although the weather in Ioannina was still cooler than Continue reading
Pretty much, all of us have looked at a post card, showing a landmark and have questioned ourselves about the monument’s country of origin! Pretty much all of us have thoughts of traveling in destinations, simply for admiring live one of those monuments! Continue reading
One time you had to travel weeks by a horse or caravan to reach your destination. One time you would have sailed for a month or more to cross the Atlantic ocean. Nowadays you still need a lot of hours by train or bus for a journey across the European continent. However with an airplane traveling is totally different…. One can travel across continents in a few hours and can reach almost every destination easily and relaxed. Definitely the airliners have changed the way we travel, the way we move. The world of transportation changed because of the air travels.
However airplanes fall, they keep falling from the sky and raise concerns more and more among travelers. Meanwhile the airplane is considered the safest mean of transportation. Its riskier to travel with a motorbike or a car, than a airplane. Furthermore more people die on the asphalt every year, than those who are involved in a flying accident. The above concerns about air travels safety have to do with the limited chances of survival in an airplane crash. Let’s face it, there are not many major airplane accidents we have heard of, that were not lethal.
Over the last years 2 years a significant larger number of airplanes crashed and hundreds of people gone perished. Today another airplane crash occurred, as an Airbus A 320 of Egypt Air wast lost from the radar. Latest news talk about personal belonging and pieces from the aircraft found in the sea, miles away of Alexandria. One more disaster, one of so many. Do you want to start counting? From 2014, these were the biggest aviation disasters:
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Now imagine that these are only the major aviation disasters, counting more that 50 people dead. There were many others with a small number of victims and fortunately a few minor accidents, where all the passengers and crew members survived, even with injuries. But still we are talking about more than 1257 people that died…
There are many reasons. Either they have to do with flaws in the construction of various parts of the airplane or with the mistakes made by the pilot. In both these occasions, passengers can only hope that others just do their job right. On the one hand, people want to believe that the manufacturers construct the airliners following all the security precautions during construction and on the other, that the airlines hire, train and test their pilots in such a way, that they minimize the involvement of the human factor in an accident. Unfortunately, over the last years, one more reason became more and more popular. Terrorism… Terrorism tends to a part of our everyday routine, as a lot of attacks happened. Furthermore, apart from those poor people that died, all the rest start suffering from the most dangerous feeling. The fear.
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An act of terror is the very first reason of a plane crash that comes to our minds, even if eventually has nothing to do with the incident itself. We live in a world, where fear starts spreading more and more and nobody knows what this situation will bring! The media, more than anyone else, tend to present the news without, sometimes, having a clear view of the story itself. And the fear keeps spreading…But this has to stop. We have to move on without fear in our hearts. All those attacks, the way that they are presented from the media, want to cause more fear among us. And with fear we will become reluctant to travel with an airplane, tomorrow with a car and who knows, maybe some time later we might fear to go out of our houses. What i know is that after every story that involves an aviation disaster, everyone talks either about terrorism or about his or hers decision to stop flying, at least for a while.
The progress in journeys, that aviation managed over the last decades, got hit seriously and people seek the insurance that once the airplanes offered. As for me, i am not going to fear. Whenever i will have to travel by airplane i will do it. Because i respect and love the technology, i trust all those people working to make airplanes safer and because i strongly believe that terrorism doesn’t lead anywhere. Other that that i just feel that all we need is simply good luck, in the form of the absence of any bad circumstances.
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