Next came the obligatory ride on the Pyongyang subway, a one-stop jaunt on a clean and fast-moving four-car train that started off empty, but took on Korean passengers at the next stop after the journalists had gotten off.
Did the family stop taking car jaunts?
The open plains took me 276km southwest to Yazd: the city of wind catchers, and my final stop on this desert jaunt.
But we saw most towns from the sea, sometimes stopping for a quick jaunt, and perhaps a gelato or plate of clams, before heading off again.
Next week's jaunt includes stops in Key West, Fla., for the annual Hemingway look-alike contest; Uganda, where he survived two plane crashes within 48 hours; and Venice, where he gleefully read in The Daily Mirror of New York that he had died in the second crash.
But in actuality it's a disappointment, easily the weakest in Neeson's run as the baby-boomers' own blarney-spritzed Charles Bronson, which began with Taken (a $24.7m US opening in 2009) and was still looking hale enough in this year's US air-marshall jaunt Non-Stop ($28.1m US opening, and hovering just outside this week's global top 10 thanks to a belated Chinese opening).
So too is the articulate ease of his original compositions on the album, including "Blue Nude," a slow rhapsody; "Stop and Go," a quicksilver jaunt; and "Generation Y," an episodic piece whose only misstep is the title.
She was about to leave again for a weekend curatorial jaunt to Bermuda, followed by a stop in England to catch a Barney performance.
A nice jaunt round the harbour, an obedient stop at a new set of traffic lights, and in a flash you are on a new stretch of motorway.
Check out the Travelistas' latest jaunt in the video above.
ON a recent jaunt out to eastern Long Island, I stopped at a nursery in Water Mill and thought I'd walked into the hanging gardens of Babylon.
