Travel Blog: Shrinking Planet
Travel Song of the Day: ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’ by Otis Redding
by Eva Holland | 08.10.09 | 11:02 AM ET
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Yahoo! BuzzTravel Song of the Day: ‘First Train Home’ by Imogen Heap
by Alicia Imbody | 08.07.09 | 12:27 PM ET
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Amelia’ by Joni Mitchell
by Jim Benning | 08.06.09 | 7:24 PM ET
A Global Foodie Tour on Film
by Eva Holland | 08.06.09 | 10:04 AM ET
Publicity still via IGN With Julie and Julia set to open tomorrow, bringing a true food-blogging tale to the masses, the Globe and Mail’s Alexandra Gill decided to come up with a list of 10 cooking-centric movies—and winds up offering a global culinary tour-by-DVD. There are stops in Taiwan, Denmark, New Jersey, Mexico, and—no surprise here—three trips to Paris.
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Albion’ by Pete Doherty
by Michael Yessis | 08.05.09 | 3:48 PM ET
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Lights’ by Journey
by Alicia Imbody | 08.04.09 | 2:17 PM ET
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Chelsea’ by Counting Crows
by Eva Holland | 08.03.09 | 2:32 PM ET
Van Halen, Highway 40 and Happiness
by Michael Yessis | 08.03.09 | 9:20 AM ET
In his latest post on the Happy Days blog, Tim Kreider draws from his travel experiences to make an interesting point about happiness: “Maybe we mistakenly think we want ‘happiness,’ which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.”
Kimchi Burgers Bring Sweet Taste of Freedom to Pyongyang
by Alicia Imbody | 07.31.09 | 10:41 AM ET
Just when we were beginning to think that isolated North Koreans might never enjoy the greasy spillover of the expanding McWorld, the first-fast food restaurant in Pyongyang opened yesterday. The Daily Press reports that the Samtaeseong Restaurant—which serves burgers, fries, beer and, of course, kimchi—is already proving a runaway hit with locals and foreigners, and plans to expand are in the works.
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Rio’ by Goldfinger
by Eva Holland | 07.30.09 | 2:02 PM ET
‘The Hangover’ Gets Bollywoodized
by Eva Holland | 07.29.09 | 4:18 PM ET
Publicity still via IGN Here’s an unexpected bit of cross-cultural synergy. This summer’s funniest travel movie involving a Vegas bachelor party, Mike Tyson, and a tiger—OK, OK, this summer’s only travel movie involving all of the above—is getting its very own Bollywood remake.
After he had time to think it over, Get the Big Picture’s Colin Boyd decided he approves. “You’ve seen ‘The Hangover,’ right? It’s full of non sequiturs from Mike Tyson to the chicken to the tiger in the bathroom to the baby to the missing tooth,” he writes. “And where better to find humorous non sequiturs than Bollywood?”
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Transatlanticism’ by Death Cab for Cutie
by Alicia Imbody | 07.29.09 | 2:08 PM ET
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Transcendental Blues’ by Steve Earle
by Michael Yessis | 07.28.09 | 4:08 PM ET
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car’ by Billy Ocean
by Eva Holland | 07.27.09 | 3:01 PM ET
Google Mapping the Alphabet
by Eva Holland | 07.27.09 | 12:41 PM ET
Over at the Daily Dish, Chris Bodenner has come across a collection of Google map terrain views—all from New York state—that appear to spell out the alphabet. Just one more way that Google is helping to shrink the planet?
