Paul Jacobson

Category: Travel and places

  • Incredible Yosemite in HD

    I’ve never been to this region but it looks incredible in this video:

  • A lesson on how to behave when caught speeding from @garethcliff

    I just watched Gareth Cliff’s arrest video and what strikes me is that he doesn’t behave like a self-righteous celeb when he is arrested (at least, we didn’t see anything in the video suggesting he behaved like that) and when he was interviewed afterwards, he basically said he was careless and accepted that there will…

  • Wolves + MTN = a beautiful thing

    We are at Wolves for a bit this morning (we had to escape the office smokers) and I can’t connect to the wifi so I am using my iPhone to connect to the MTN data network. As is required of any geek worth his or her smartphone, I ran a speed test and this was…

  • Another reason I am a @EuropcarSA fan

    One of Europcar’s drivers messed up driving me and my candidate attorney, Nastassja, from the CSIR International Convention Centre to the Hatfield Gautrain Station. He wasn’t familiar with the route, didn’t use his GPS and was careless making turns across lanes when he almost drove past the station. It was a stark contrast to our…

  • Energetic sunrise

    I took this at my gym this morning as I staggered in.

  • Disturbing pre-teen glamour ad

    This is on Sandton City’s elevator doors. It’s a little disturbing.

  • Training for an expedition in spectacular Skye

    Ben Saunders, Alastair Humphreys and Martin Hartley are training for an expedition to Antarctica which has never been completed before: In the last 100 years, twelve people have stood on the moon, more than 500 have been into space, and more than five thousand have climbed Everest. Yet the journey Captain Scott and his team…

  • Brands could learn from Europcar SA

    I hired a car from Europcar this last weekend so I could take my wife down to the Drakensberg for an early anniversary weekend in style (my usual car is the same car I’ve been driving for about a decade and not stylish at all). I’ve been using Europcar exclusively for the last year or…