Paul Jacobson

Category: Travel and places

  • Apartheid is a ridiculous metaphor for Israel

    Our friend, Rolene Marks, wrote a post titled “Bearing Witness” a few weeks ago about the embarrassment that was the Russell Tribunal “trial” in Cape Town. I hadn’t heard of this “tribunal” before reading Rolene’s post and now that I have, I can’t help but think how absurd it and the Apartheid metaphor are. The…

  • SA Airlink flight's emergency landing tweeted and blogged

    Last night’s SA Airlink emergency landing was tweeted and blogged from moments after the plane came to a halt at OR Tambo airport. The journalist on the scene was Alec Hogg, a respected financial journalist. I used Storify to aggregate the story’s reports, including Hogg’s tweets, videos and his first hand blog post: View the…

  • Car security inspired by Knight Rider

  • Shocking service at Moo-Z Brothers

    This morning Moo-Z Brothers in Sandringham (a dairy-based Kosher food deli) gave me some pretty lousy service and represented some pretty common customer service shockers we see each day. I wasn’t assaulted or sworn at but the service I received reflects poorly on the store and leaves a pretty bad taste for what is otherwise…

  • Europcar stars

    I had a bad experience with Europcar about 2 years ago when I flew to Cape Town and found I couldn’t hire a car I booked through kulula. The main issue was that the person behind the counter wouldn’t accept my cheque card and wouldn’t do much to assist me (I didn’t use my credit…

  • Spectacular images of the Chile volcano eruption

    Ok, I really need to plug into the news from time to time. I didn’t realise there was a volcano eruption in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain in Chile until I read my sister’s update on Facebook mentioning the ashcloud and possible interference with their flight in Australia. I did a quick search and found…

  • Drivers' license renewal grace period?

    I just realized my license has expired. Is there some sort of grace period before they don’t even bother to bribe you and throw you in jail?

  • Barack Obama's car gets stuck on a speed bump

    US President, Barack Obama, was in Ireland for a visit and discovered that not all roads are ideal for his fancy limo. This was filmed in Dublin at the US embassy: I shudder to think what would happen if Obama visited Joburg!