Morning Links: High-Speed Rail, a Traveling ‘Joyologist’ and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 04.17.09 | 9:21 AM ET
- Fancy a new career as a hotelier? Singapore’s famous Raffles Hotel is up for sale, with an asking price of £300 million. (Via @pen4hire)
- A Canadian man successfully opened the emergency door on a small charter plane and jumped from 7,000
feetmeters; the plane was able to land safely. - Slate takes a hard look at Obama’s high-speed rail plan.
- A gay rights group is calling for a travel boycott of Jamaica, dubbing it “The Most Homophobic Place on Earth.” (Via Scanner)
- The collapse of Britain’s Freedom Direct Holidays has reportedly affected 10,000 travelers; elsewhere, Canadian travelers stranded in Mexico after Conquest Vacations folded are now being threatened with detainment if they don’t pay up for a second time.
- Uncertainty remains in Bangkok: yesterday, the capital was declared “safe for tourists” by the U.K. government, but an assassination attempt this morning on a protest leader has raised fears again.
- Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver: which is Canada’s culinary capital? Gourmet weighs in. (Via @upmagazine)
- Pop star Jason Mraz doesn’t go on tour without his official “joyologist”—and she never hits the road without these essential tools of joyology.
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Ling 04.17.09 | 10:08 AM ET
The nut jumped off a plane without a parachute? Maybe they should have psychiatrists checking for mental disorders before allowing people to board planes.
Darren Cronian 04.17.09 | 1:09 PM ET
Ling, don’t be giving airlines any more ideas for ‘extra charges!’
Thanks for the mention Eva.