Morning Links: Stolen Picassos, Travel Games and Gadgets and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.10.09 | 8:50 AM ET
- A sketchbook containing 33 drawings has been stolen from the Picasso Museum in Paris. The book is apparently worth millions.
- A car bombing at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, has killed 15 people and injured dozens more.
- World Hum contributor Pam Mandel looks back on the “continually confusing exercise” that was her trip to Leningrad in 1990.
- Over at Double X, author Rachel Cusk talks about her latest memoir, “The Last Supper,” which tells the story of a summer spent in Italy with her young family.
- An electrical fire in the bathroom forced an American Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia yesterday. Nobody was injured.
- Doesn’t anyone just play “I Spy” anymore? The Telegraph has a tech- and gadget-heavy list of the 10 best travel games.
- The New York Times takes an evocative look at a South Carolina BBQ joint that still smokes its hogs the old-fashioned way.
- An Arkansas Holiday Inn got seriously pranked this weekend, as a caller claiming to be a sprinkler company worker convinced guests and employees to smash windows, set off fire alarms and more. (Via Fark)
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