Morning Links: Americans Behaving Badly, Disappointing Attractions and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.05.09 | 8:47 AM ET
- Tamaulipas declared itself bilingual, the first Mexican state to do so.
- Ben Groundwater lists his picks for the world’s most disappointing tourist attractions.
- Aeroflot apologizes for pilot’s “slurred preflight announcement,” but denies he was drunk.
- McSweeney’s reveals what happens when “the 4-year-old crash-lands in the Andes.”
- The sites of London can be compressed into “just four handy photographs,” writes Matthew Summers-Sparks.
- Trains, slum rooftops and Google Earth all factor into this art project in Kibera, Kenya. (Via Daily Dish)
- A man was caught at customs in Melbourne with birds beneath his trousers.
- Here’s where Americans are getting arrested abroad. Not surprised at all by the top spot: Tijuana.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 02.05.09 | 10:54 AM ET
Getting arrested in Tijuana or other border towns in Mexico is sometimes not your fault. I read last week about this 88 year old guy who crossed over from Yuma, AZ, and he lands up in a Mexican jail charged with taking pictures of young girls. They ask his family to pay $2000 for his release, which was not paid, so he’s still in jail, badly sick, waiting for his trial.
Eva Holland 02.05.09 | 12:03 PM ET
Wow. That disappointing-attractions guy managed to miss Times Square and walk right through? I don’t like it much, but I sure as hell can’t miss it.
The list of further suggestions in the comments (Stonehenge, Vienna - the whole city apparently, the British Museum, Grand Canyon (“a large hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere”), Sydney Opera House, Maccu Picchu (“rubble on a hill”), Aya Sofya, Notre Dame Cathedral (“just another building”), Athens, Havana, Venice - again, the whole cities apparently) is scary.
Sure does take a lot to impress people these days!