Archives for 2003

After a suggestion from Paul, I’ve decided to include the location and time/date for my blog entries when travelling. I’ll put them down the bottom of the entry in italics. LOCATION: Hyatt Regency, Chicago, USA LOCAL TIME: 12:22am, Monday 8th Sept.

(refer to my previous blog entry on this matter for more details) So what about us poor Aussies ? Well, we fare pretty poorly in these tallest buildings measurements… Even Aucklands’s Sky Tower at 328m to the tip is taller than anything we’ve got in Australia (and taller than the Eiffel Tower too !!) – … [Read More »]

There is a lot of debate about which building is the tallest in the world. Nobody seems to be able to agree on a common standard that is acceptable to everyone (mostly because someone always loses their spot at number one when you do so). Depending on the way you measure buildings there could be … [Read More »]

Did the world’s tallest building and the world’s fifth tallest building today. According to the information at the Sears Tower here in Chicago, it is the tallest building in the world – with the John Hancock Center also here in Chicago being the fifth tallest. Great views out over Chicago from the viewing decks of … [Read More »]

I just remembered some comments the captain on our flight from LA to Chicago made about our delayed departure and change of planes. He explained that there was a technical problem with the plane we were scheduled to use, as it had been having problems with cabin pressurisation. He thought we might all have trouble … [Read More »]