Morning Links: Breakfast Around the World, Mind-Narrowing Travel and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.07.09 | 9:16 AM ET
- A small fleet of bubblegum pink, women-only taxis is now cruising the streets of Lebanon.
- Over at Intelligent Travel, World Hum contributor Jerry Haines takes a fun look at breakfast preferences around the world.
- Rome’s famous “talking statues,” where citizens have been posting satirical complaints for more than five centuries, are getting a $93,000 makeover. The catch? The statues will be fenced off and note-free post-restoration.
- Meet the winner of Queensland Tourism’s “Best Job in the World” competition.
- Andrew Sullivan quotes Chesterton and Emerson on “how travel narrows the mind.”
- Slate’s latest Well-Traveled series follows an expat mother as she heads to Thailand to give birth.
- In Forbes Traveler, World Hum contributor Lola Akinmade takes a look at the world’s spiciest foods.
- A new book suggests that Jack the Ripper was an invention of tabloid journalists looking to sell papers. No word yet on whether London’s walking tour operators were in on the scheme, too. (Via the Book Bench)
- Oh, and that TripAdvisor survey we mentioned a few days back? Arthur Frommer is unimpressed: “You will forgive me if I refuse to follow the travel advice of people who regard the ultra-costly Prague “as the best bargain destination,” the fastidious British as the “worst-dressed,” and Paris as “overrated.” Aaaargh!”
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