Destination: Switzerland
The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: Seville, Switzerland and The Strip
by Michael Yessis | 03.09.07 | 9:00 AM ET
Travelers this week looked to Las Vegas, Seville, the Grand Canyon, Tallinn, Riga and Charleson, S.C., and wondered whether to avoid Oslo (too expensive) and Atlanta (too busy). Here’s the Zeitgeist:
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Las Vegas
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Las Vegas: A Winner’s Guide to Blackjack
World’s Busiest Airport
Airports Council International (2006)
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
* Chicago’s O’Hare and London’s Heathrow finished second and third respectively.
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Seville’s the City for Piety Animals
* This also gets another of our groan-inducing headline of the week awards.
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36 Hours in Charleston, S.C.
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Switzerland Invades Liechtenstein
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Another Wonder for Grand Canyon?
* As we like to say, what would Edward Abbey think?
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Wi-Fi Bus Crosses the Border
* It’s “likely the first international cross-border Wi-Fi-enabled bus line.” It connects Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia.
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Schmap
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World Hum (this week)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest: ‘100 Places Every Woman Should Go’
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Yahoo! BuzzSwitzerland Invades Liechtenstein
by Michael Yessis | 03.05.07 | 7:57 AM ET
And chaos, well, didn’t ensue. Apparently this wasn’t the first time the Swiss army has accidentally crossed into Liechtenstein during a training mission. “It has happened before,” Liechtenstein government spokeswoman Gerlinde Manz-Christ told ABC News. “Nobody really realized it.” The Guardian notes the 170 or so Swiss soldiers were carrying rifles with no ammunition on their mission last Thursday, though they did have their “obligatory Swiss army knives.”
The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: The Traveler Beware Edition
by Michael Yessis | 03.02.07 | 8:01 AM ET
They’re turning people back at the Canadian border, shrinking the payout for blackjack in Las Vegas and seeing through your clothes in Phoenix. Those stories—plus journeys to Alaska, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Sweden and Mulholland Drive—are intriguing travelers this week. Here’s the Zeitgeist.
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Netscape (this week)
Going to Canada? Check Your Past
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Los Angeles Times (current)
Las Vegas: A Winner’s Guide to Blackjack
* Casino are starting to pay only 6-5 for blackjack. What’s next? No doubling down?
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World Hum (this week)
Full-Body X-Ray Security Scanner Debuts
* The first passengers asked to submit to a full-body X-ray, apparently, “didn’t bat an eyelash.”
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USA Today (current)
Escapes Under $500: Go to Puerto Rico’s Second City
* That would be Ponce.
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New York Times (current)
The Cold Show in Fairbanks, Alaska
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World Hum (this week)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest: ‘100 Places Every Woman Should Go’
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Wayfaring
Best Waterfront City
Project for Public Spaces
Stockholm
Travel Story of the Year
Solas Awards (2007)
Fishing With Larry by Tom Joseph
* Here are all the prize winners.
Most Competitive Country
World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitive Index
Switzerland
* What is this? “The index is not a ‘beauty contest’, or a statement about the attractiveness of a country. On the contrary, the index measures the factors that make it attractive to develop the travel and tourism industry of individual countries,” said Jennifer Blanke, Senior Economist of the World Economic Forum.
Provolone, Toblerone and the Art of Bad Writing
by Michael Yessis | 07.12.06 | 1:34 AM ET
The Bulwer-Lytton contest celebrates intentionally horrible writing. Specifically, entrants are challenged to compose “the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.” Today, the 2006 winners were announced and, oh my, did they ever produce some horrible prose. But horrible in a highly-entertaining way. Jim Guigli took home the grand prize with a 63-word doozy about a hot dame and a super burrito. My favorite selections, though, were those that tasted of travel writing.
Top 10 Apres-Ski Spots
by Jim Benning | 02.21.06 | 2:25 PM ET
I love snowboarding, but I probably love kicking back afterward even more. There’s nothing like that feeling of exhaustion and satisfaction after a long day on the slopes, when it’s time to soak in the hot tub, reward yourself with a great meal and relax by a crackling fire. So I was happy to see MSNBC.com offer a list of the top 10 scenes to do just that. Aspen makes the list (Hollywood stars, great restaurants). So does Killington (check out the Wobbly Barn and the Pickle Barrel) and Lake Tahoe (casinos galore). Internationally, Cortina in Italy and Argentina’s Bariloche are included. And so is Chamonix-Mont Blanc, my personal favorite. MSNBC cites its “location on the crossroads of France, Italy, and Switzerland that makes it a natural multicultural mecca for serious skiers and serious partiers.”
Have Hammer, Will Travel
by Michael Yessis | 03.20.02 | 9:52 PM ET
The ranks of Germany’s wandergesellen—skilled craftsmen who wander around the country in search of work—are growing as a result of high joblessness and a nationwide construction slowdown after the frantic first decade of reunification. “The first year of the walz must be spent in German-speaking territory, which includes Austria, Switzerland and the Alsace-Lorraine region of eastern France,” writes Carol J. Williams in the Los Angeles Times. “But after the indoctrination year, the wanderers are allowed, even encouraged, to range as wide in the world as their earnings can take them.” According to wandergesellen code, the men must remain 50 kilometers away from home for at least three years and a day.
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