As I huff and puff off to sleep, I hope that maybe tomorrow will feel a bit lower.Back to top >>TuesdayFOR veteran "Polies", a stopover at McMurdo Station (pictured below) is like passing through Heathrow: an uncomfortable, often prolonged, but necessary evil.
During a recent weeklong stopover in New York City, I picked up four top-shelf New York City guides (Fodor's, Frommer's, Lonely Planet and Michelin) and set out to find free or inexpensive places that weren't mentioned in any of them.
Is his odyssey with journalism really over -- this is a man who has also held top jobs at ABC News, U.S. News & World Report and The Washington Post, where he helped pioneer the Style section -- or is this merely a stopover before another high-powered gig?
In May 2008, an acrimonious exchange took place between the then foreign secretary, India's top foreign affairs diplomat, Shiv Shankar Menon, and the then US ambassador, David Mulford, shortly after a short stopover by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in India.
The All Blacks played in Japan ahead of this European tour and while the players did not object to that, there is a sense that a game in the USA, on top of their already demanding schedule in a sport where wear and tear is inevitable, may be a stopover too far for the players.
He said interest in the vessel's itinerary in recent weeks, which included a stopover in Havana, might have been heightened because of the July 3 visit to Cuba of North Korea's top military commander, who conferred with President Raúl Castro.
Nick's favorite stopover.
The most exotic stopover option?
