Morning Links: Cheese-Rolling, Township Tours, Obama in Vegas and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.28.09 | 8:57 AM ET
- A new, restored edition of Hemingway’s Paris memoir, “A Moveable Feast,” has been released. Christopher Hitchens dissects the fresh material in the Atlantic.
- In the Guardian, David Smith test-drives a Soweto township tour, and finds the experience awkward but enlightening.
- According to the AFP, some restaurants in Berlin have begun printing special bills for foreign tourists, with the phrase “Service not included” added in English. The catch? German law stipulates that service charges be included in the listed price.
- The Guardian’s Benji Lanyado navigates “the most futuristic hotel in the world” in this fun video.
- With Times Square gone car-free this week, Gadling’s Sean McLachlan looks back at the days when the area was “full of seedy bars, seedier adult shops, and crumbling movie houses where you could watch a double feature of martial arts films for two bucks.”
- Amid fears of earthquakes, the Chinese government plans to demolish the ancient city center of Kashgar. Critics say it’s an attack on minority Uighur culture.
- For anyone keeping up their own Barack Obama travel map (and I know you’re out there)—the President spent the night at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this week.
- Gloucester’s annual cheese-rolling competition took place on Monday. The Big Picture has it covered.
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Ling 05.28.09 | 9:33 AM ET
Yeah, and Caesars gives Obama a free room upgrade - after he dissed Vegas by telling corporates not to go to Vegas. If one of us had said something like that, we would probably have got the worst room in the place.