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Archive for April, 2010
Indonesian Police Chief: No Penis Enlargement For My Cops
April 28, 2010 | Indonesia, Travel News | Read More
Applicants to Indonesia’s police and military will now face some very personal questions about their sex lives and sex organs before they will be allowed to serve and protect. Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto says every applicant “will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged....
NileGuide 5 with Stephanie Yoder of Twenty-Something Travel
April 28, 2010 | Around the Web, NileGuide 5 | Read More
Stephanie Yoder is a girl who can’t sit still. Since graduating from college three years ago she has spent time working in London, backpacking through eastern Europe and road tripping in the United States and Iceland. In September she is planning to backpack around the world. Stephanie documents her...
What Did You Call Me?! Slurs and Slang for Americans Abroad
April 27, 2010 | Around the World, Featured, Talk Like a Local | Read More
He rocks cargo shorts and a baseball cap, tilted at a jaunty angle day and night; he swigs from a bottle of cheap beer wherever he goes; he smothers his steak in ketchup; he waves his American passport like a carte blanche; he yells at the top of his lungs and dishes out high fives like his palms hold...
European Government Pressures Airlines To Compensate Clients
April 27, 2010 | Europe, Travel News | Read More
As mentioned in a previous article, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupting in Iceland and freezing air travel in mid-April has generated its fair share of inconveniences and controversy for many around the globe. Families were split, planes were grounded, and above all, incredibly large amounts of money...
Sleeping Passenger Offered Excuses by Airline After Waking Up in Hangar
April 27, 2010 | Travel News | Read More
Perhaps courtesy wake-up calls should be the next service introduced by airlines.
At least that’s what Kris Lines — a British law professor on his way to Vancouver — probably wished he had. Lines was on a 90-minute connecting flight after flying from London to Calgary, when he decided...
Unruly Passenger Grounds Plane Headed For Tampa, Florida
April 27, 2010 | Offbeat, Travel News | Read More
Long trips take their toll on everyone’s nerves, and even the most seasoned passengers are not immune to the stresses that result from a long day of missed connections, delayed flights, and airport crowds.
A certain Stanley Dwayne Sheffield, however, apparently took average anxiety to a whole new level...
5 Places to Keep Your Sanity at Airports Around the World
April 27, 2010 | Around the World | Read More
Airports are probably the pinnacle of modern industrial design, shuttling hundreds of thousands of passengers to their flights each day. While they are designed to facilitate this, there has been less thought put towards actually making the experience enjoyable.
Increased security lines and other features...
Airline Prioritizes Golf Bags, Leaves 40 Non-Golf Bags Behind
April 27, 2010 | Active/Outdoors, Travel News | Read More
Last week a Direct Air flight from Plattsburg, New York to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina left forty bags behind after the airline prioritized getting golf bags onto the plane. “The golf bags went on first so we could make sure, because people are coming down to golf and they want to have their...
Macabre Tourism: 9 Sites of Cult Massacres and Suicides
April 26, 2010 | Culture/History, Featured | Read More
Cult. For you, the word may conjure up images of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Kevin Smith’s Clerks, but there’s a big difference between cult classics and classic cults. The former are fun, lovable, and infinitely re-playable pieces of nearly pop culture. The latter are scary, overzealous,...
Top 10 Book Exchange Finds from Around the World
April 26, 2010 | Culture/History | Read More
Contrary to popular misconception, traveling for an extended period of time isn’t always fascinating, or stimulating or fun even. Between 20-hour bus rides, long ticket queues and unpredictable check-in times, there’s a lot of downtime to deal with. Some people prefer catching power naps or listening...
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