Morning Links: Mile-High Marriages, the Loneliest Pig in the World and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.06.09 | 8:06 AM ET
- Here’s a possible bright spot in all-too-grim Airworld: British budget airline Easyjet is hoping to offer in-flight weddings, with pilots as officiants. It’s about time somebody brought the romance back to air travel.
- Slate’s Tim Wu contemplates the strange appeal of polar travel.
- Disneyland employees in charge of checking the mid-ride souvenir photos for flashers have been reassigned. Says Disney: “actual inappropriate behaviors by guests are rare.”
- World Hum contributor Pam Mandel pops up in the latest issue of Perceptive Travel, with a story about British Columbia’s First Nations.
- Afghanistan’s only known pig has been quarantined over swine flu fears; the story’s worth reading in full for the bizarre details about the Kabul Zoo alone.
- National Geographic is still seeking innovative nominees for its Geotourism Challenge—the deadline to enter is May 20.
- Scotland’s John O’Groats, the most northern point on the British mainland, may finally be getting a long-overdue makeover.
- Matador Abroad offers a lesson on How to Eat a New Language.
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Ling 05.06.09 | 9:48 AM ET
Divorce lawyers must be licking their chops. It would be ridiculously easy to have a marraige declared invalid becuase it took place in the air, and was officiated by a pilot.
Chris 05.06.09 | 10:54 AM ET
The pig story was actually very sad, but this comment from a reader was hilarious: “Actually, there are TWO known pigs in Afghanistan—my ex got a job there.”
Grizzly Bear Mom 05.06.09 | 12:31 PM ET
An Afghani took revenge on the lion that killed the brother that entered his cage? I suppose that if the beast hadn’t been blinded and toothless by the attack, it would have killed the second brother too, and then the family cat (no dogs for Muslims) would have had to take revenge on the lion.
I can only imagine who and by what means the elephant had been offended that merited execution!