Morning Links: Parisian Flea Markets, Life Before Lonely Planet and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 03.17.09 | 9:05 AM ET
- Coming soon: new TSA regulations for your air ticket purchases. The request for each passenger’s birth date and gender is intended to cut down on misidentification of “suspect travelers.”
- Geist Magazine takes a provocative look at life before (and after) Lonely Planet.
- Four hundred lucky Londoners earned free flights on Aer Lingus, by stripping down to their strategically placed shamrocks. (And on that note: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)
- Tom Swick imagines a future of illicit newspaper bars.
- NY Waterway, the ferry service that helped rescue US Airways Flight 1549 passengers from the Hudson, is contemplating a lawsuit to recoup costs from the effort; the company is close to bankruptcy, and “miffed” at the lack of recognition for its role.
- Juliet’s House in Verona, Italy, is now open for your destination wedding business—balcony photo shoot included, of course.
- Gawker (sort of) laments the recession’s impact on the nation’s museums.
- EuroCheapo goes flea marketing in Paris.
- David Farley, Tony Perrottet and Peter Wortsman—World Hum contributors, all—will be reading at New York City’s Book Culture this Thursday.
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Ling 03.17.09 | 10:10 AM ET
Is there anyone who hasn’t tried to milk the Hudson Miracle? Next thing you know, Henry Hudson’s ghost will turn up and demand compensation for allowing the plane to land on the river.