Morning Links: Naughty Nuns, the Las Vegas Sign Turns 50 and More

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.26.09 | 9:05 AM ET

In London, an Israeli tourism ad that showed the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights as being within the country’s borders has been pulled from the tube after prompting more than 300 complaints.
The Telegraph has a fun slideshow homage to the American West.
Over at the Daily Dish, guest blogger Lane Wallace ponders the ways in which we assess risk, particularly in an adventure tourism setting. Here’s the research paper that’s the basis for her post.
The much-photographed “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign has landed on the National Register of Historic Places. The sign is 50 years old this year.
In the Washington Post, World Hum contributor David Farley looks at the rise of the New York City gastropub.
An iPod-sized universal voice translator could be coming soon to an electronics store near you: both Google and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are on the case.
Budget Travel has the details on three crafty travelers who bartered for their holidays this year, trading labor or goods for air miles and accommodation.
Ugly Tourist Item of the Day: 17 Brits were arrested in Crete this weekend “after they paraded themselves dressed ‘in nun attire and naughty lingerie,’ police said.” They’ve been charged with insulting the Catholic Church, and are likely to be fined but not jailed.
Finally, who knew a McDonald’s billboard could be so much fun? Every tourist in Piccadilly Circus, apparently.

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