Airline Meals 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Remember back when you used to get a meal on your flight? Heck, remember when you used to get peanuts? Well some airlines on some flights still offer meals and the site AirlineMeals
.net documents meals that travelers have been served. The meal above was served, for example, in Business Class ...
Improve Everywhere - London Freezes 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Picture this, you are minding your own business as a tourist on the streets London when suddenly and without warning the crowd around you stops moving, freezing in place.
The day London froze. Inspired by Improv Everywhere and made a reality by 100's of volunteers. At exactly 3:30pm on a secret ... Read more:Improve
America Puts Out The Welcome Map 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The United States is opening a new website which is the “Official Travel and Tourism Website of the United States.” The site, which is set to go live some times this month, will provide information on U.S. destinations, attractions, and official travel information.
Although before the site opens those in charge ... Read more:America
, Welcome
Man Lives in London Airport for 3 Years 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In a scene right out of the movie The Terminal a man has been living in one of the London airports. Unlike the movies, this story does not, at least not yet, have a happy ending.
A homeless chef was locked up today after making Gatwick airport his home for THREE ... Read more:Lives
, Years
Biking from England to Australia 0000-00-00 00:00:00 What's the best way to get from England
to Australia
? Most people would say flying would be the only reasonable option, but this video is about a couple who defined "best way" as the most sustainable way and decided to bike the distance.
Bike 2 Oz is a video series about ... Read more:Biking
Contest - Win A Travel Poster 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I am holding a new contest. The prize is a travel poster (or item of equivalent value) from my online store. There are two ways to win.
Get one point for subscribing to this blog via email using the form in the right sidebar
Get 5 points for blogging about tripinator ... Read more:Contest
, Travel
, Poster
Hotel with Free Internet… and an iMac 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The site Macenstein had an article about a UK hotel that is adding an iMac to each hotel room:
Hotel
chain City Inn has decided to put a brand new iMac in every room in its London and Manchester hotels.
According to Macworld UK, City Inn has partnered with software company DirectStreams ... Read more:Internet
Swimming with Jellyfish 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Gary from Everything-Everywhere.com sent me this video that he shot in Micronesia snorkeling with jellyfish in Palau. The jellyfish in Jellyfish
Lake on Palau do not have any stingers so you can safely swim with them.
I am trying to schedule time to have Gary come on the Amateur Traveler ... Read more:Swimming
San Francisco - Burma Superstar! Restaurant 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you drive down Clement street in San Francisco
(north of Golden Gate park and south of the Presidio) around 4:30 pm on any given day you will see a line gathering out side of the BurmaSuperstar
! Restaurant. This might strike you a little strange if you happened to ... Read more:San Francisco
HotWire.com says “Smoker? Non-Smoker? Use Something Else” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I booked and paid for a room using Hotwire.com last weekend and then ended up paying for a second hotel room. Why? It turns out that there is a catch with the HotWire service that you should know about.
If you are not familiar with HotWire.com it is a site that ... Read more:Smoker
Married in the Dominican Republic… Don’t Be Too Sure 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Remember that lovely wedding and honeymoon that you had in the DominicanRepublic
. Remember how the whole thing came off without a hitch. Well.. that's the problem... if you are one of more than 200 British and Canadian couples it may in fact have come off without a real marriage. ...
Airport Security - Choose Your Line 0000-00-00 00:00:00 According to a story in the USA Today you may soon get to choose which security line you use at the airport depending on how fast you will get through. Pack lighter and you can choose a faster line.
Salt Lake City International Airport is trying to get travelers through security ... Read more:Airport Security
Saddam’s Yacht : Pools, Prayer Room, Helicopter Pad, Mini Escape Sub 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There is some controversy surrounding a yacht that Iraq claims was constructed for Saddam
Hussein and wants returned to the country. The current owners are trying to sell the ship for $35 million dollars. If you are in the market, this could easily make a good lair for the next ... Read more:Yacht
, Prayer
, Helicopter
, Escape
Susan’s Magic Backpack vs eBag’s Air Travel Essentials 0000-00-00 00:00:00 When we first travelled with our friend Susan
we would say something like "oh I need a band-aid" or "does anyone have a wet wipe" and out of Susan's magic backpack would emerge the desired item. After while it felt like being on the old "Let's Make a Deal" when ... Read more:Travel
, Magic
, Backpack
, Essentials
Ah London 0000-00-00 00:00:00 We have started to plan a trip to Europe in May. The only definite part of the trip is that we are flying through London so my thought have started to turn to London, especially when I saw this wonderful video about the Tower Bridge in London. Ah London. My ...
Top 25 Most Beautiful Castles in the World 0000-00-00 00:00:00 International Listings, which calls itself "the premier listing service for luxury homes worldwide", published an article the "Top 25 Most Beautiful
Castles in the World
". The list does contain some stunningly beautiful castles from around the globe like Windsor Castle which is pictured, old crusader castles, etc. Sadly, despite ...
Indian Airlines Can’t Handle The Handlebar 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Wear a big mustache, lose your job. That's what happened to an airline employee in India.
Victor Joynath De was grounded by Indian - formerly called Indian Airlines
- in 2001 for refusing to shave off his handlebar moustache.
He had earlier lost a case in a lower court which ruled that ... Read more:Handle
The Baths at Virgin Gorda 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last year I wrote about my favorite beach in the world in an article title Favorite Beach - The Baths
in Virgin
Gorda. I found this video from an episode of the The Map which goes to Virgin Gorda. Skip the first 2 minutes if you must but the trail ...
Airbus 380 Goes Green 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Airbus and Shell Oil announced a test flight was completed recently with one of the four engines operating on an alternate fuel.
The alternative fuel used on the test flight was gas to liquid (GTL), which looks like kerosene, but is clear coloured. It is a natural gas, which has ... Read more:Airbus
, Green
Monty Python - Travel Agency 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I don't tend to use a travel agent when I book travel, but it is not true that this is because I was traumatized at an early age by this classic MontyPython
sketch called "Travel
Agency". Read more:Monty Python
Top 10 Most Dangerous Airports 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ProTraveller had a recent article about the "Top 10 Most Dangerous Airports
" in the world. If you are not yet afraid of flying the videos in this article will fix that.
The top of the list is the old airport in Hong Kong (closed in 1998). Watching a 747 make ...
Welcome Home… Glad You Weren’t Murdered 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Among the things you don't expect to find when you come home from a vacation a police press conference about your suspicious disappearance is way up there on the list. But that is just what an Australian couple encountered according to a story coming over the API Wire.
A Melbourne couple ... Read more:Welcome
, Welcome Home
Save Money - Know When To Go 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I have mentioned Kayak.Kayak.com before as one of my favorite sites to use for booking air travel. Kayak sent out a reminder of how to save money booking holiday travel that is worth passing along. If you specify that your dates are flexible (you must create an account to use ... Read more:Money
Put Down The MacBook Air And Step Away Slowly 0000-00-00 00:00:00 TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) reports a recent kerfuffle at airport security:
Programmer Michael Nygard is used to travel. He's got the process down, from airport to hotel. Unfortunately, the TSA isn't as prepared.
While passing through airport security recently, he was pulled aside and made to sit in the holding ... Read more:MacBook
, Slowly
Istanbul on Travel in 10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the Travel
in 10 podcast and again talked about Istanbul. You might have gotten the impression that the city of Istanbul has left an impression on me and you would be correct.
I expected a middle eastern city but found a much ...
“Missed it by That Much” - Pilot Misses Airport by 15 Miles 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I find it very easy to relax on a Hawaiian vacation. There is something about that tropics that de-stresses me. Maybe this also happens with airline pilots. How else could you explain a recent incident where a plane flying to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii forgot to land.
It's ... Read more:Pilot
, Miles
Dinner In The Sky - Hors D’oeuvres and Vertigo 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Who thought this was a good idea? Well, you can bet it was not someone with a fear of heights. Dinner
in the Sky is part theme park ride and part dining experience. 22 guests, chefs and waiters are raised up by a crane on a specialized platform. The website ... Read more:Vertigo
Don’t Threaten to “Kill the Crew” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The most recent episode of the wonderful "Fly with Me" podcast dealt with people behaving badly on flights. The host of the show Joe Dion, a commercial airline pilot, remarked that when you think about how unnatural a commercial flight is with so many people crammed so close together in ...
ATA to Leave Chicago Midway 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was saddened to see the news that ATA Airlines is pulling out of some of its commercial flights because of the high cost of fuel. Back when my kids were in Jr high we flew on ATA to Boston through Midway
and our kids first flew alone on this ... Read more:Leave
, Chicago
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