Morning Links: Parisian Flea Markets, Life Before Lonely Planet and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 03.17.09 | 9:05 AM ET
- Coming soon: new TSA regulations for your air ticket purchases. The request for each passenger’s birth date and gender is intended to cut down on misidentification of “suspect travelers.”
- Geist Magazine takes a provocative look at life before (and after) Lonely Planet.
- Four hundred lucky Londoners earned free flights on Aer Lingus, by stripping down to their strategically placed shamrocks. (And on that note: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)
- Tom Swick imagines a future of illicit newspaper bars.
- NY Waterway, the ferry service that helped rescue US Airways Flight 1549 passengers from the Hudson, is contemplating a lawsuit to recoup costs from the effort; the company is close to bankruptcy, and “miffed” at the lack of recognition for its role.
- Juliet’s House in Verona, Italy, is now open for your destination wedding business—balcony photo shoot included, of course.
- Gawker (sort of) laments the recession’s impact on the nation’s museums.
- EuroCheapo goes flea marketing in Paris.
- David Farley, Tony Perrottet and Peter Wortsman—World Hum contributors, all—will be reading at New York City’s Book Culture this Thursday.
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