 Editor in Chief Bill   | 17 Oct 2017 5:03 a.m. PST |
For the 4,500 residents of the island, separated from Africa by nearly 2,000 km (1,240 miles) of ocean, the arrival this past weekend of the first ever commercial flight was cause for celebration and marked another step closer to their inclusion in the 21st century… link |
| Winston Smith | 17 Oct 2017 8:03 a.m. PST |
I want to visit the bricole farms. |
GildasFacit  | 17 Oct 2017 8:35 a.m. PST |
Mostly paid for by British taxpayers. |
 FingerandToeGlenn | 17 Oct 2017 9:17 a.m. PST |
I loved the description on BBC as "the world's most useless airport." |
Gunfreak  | 17 Oct 2017 10:02 a.m. PST |
Can't they make it like graceland.
Millions of Napoleon fans will do holy pilgrimage and take the Austerlitz rollecoaster and visit the museum of Napoléon's nigh shirts.
St. Helena will be something |
| Garde de Paris | 17 Oct 2017 10:46 a.m. PST |
That would be wonderful, Gunfreak! Despite my snobbish objections, My wife dragged me to Graceland near Memphis, and I LOVED it! He was a good soldier, did not avoid serving, and seemed a good person as well. Are there flights from Harrisburg, PA airport? GdeP |
| boy wundyr x | 17 Oct 2017 11:39 a.m. PST |
You'll need to get to South Africa first. From the photo, their capital must get interesting during rainstorms. |
| Mike the Analyst | 17 Oct 2017 12:27 p.m. PST |
But farewell to the Royal Mail Ship run. link link |
| Trajanus | 17 Oct 2017 1:39 p.m. PST |
Why would you even want to? |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 17 Oct 2017 3:30 p.m. PST |
And the place also housed Zulu King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, and 6,000 Afrikaners taken prisoner in the Boer War! |
 Herkybird | 17 Oct 2017 3:52 p.m. PST |
Warning, its always very windy there! |
 Unlucky General | 18 Oct 2017 10:43 a.m. PST |
I suppose the airport is paid for by the UK tax-payers because they themselves are UK tax-payers as they are British? I'd go. I might one day. |
