Morning Links: Mile-High Marriages, the Loneliest Pig in the World and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.06.09 | 8:06 AM ET
- Here’s a possible bright spot in all-too-grim Airworld: British budget airline Easyjet is hoping to offer in-flight weddings, with pilots as officiants. It’s about time somebody brought the romance back to air travel.
- Slate’s Tim Wu contemplates the strange appeal of polar travel.
- Disneyland employees in charge of checking the mid-ride souvenir photos for flashers have been reassigned. Says Disney: “actual inappropriate behaviors by guests are rare.”
- World Hum contributor Pam Mandel pops up in the latest issue of Perceptive Travel, with a story about British Columbia’s First Nations.
- Afghanistan’s only known pig has been quarantined over swine flu fears; the story’s worth reading in full for the bizarre details about the Kabul Zoo alone.
- National Geographic is still seeking innovative nominees for its Geotourism Challenge—the deadline to enter is May 20.
- Scotland’s John O’Groats, the most northern point on the British mainland, may finally be getting a long-overdue makeover.
- Matador Abroad offers a lesson on How to Eat a New Language.
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