Morning Links: Polish Milk Bars, Talking Travel With Thomas Friedman and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.27.09 | 8:21 AM ET
- Milk bars in Warsaw are frozen in time, and that’s just one reason people love the relics of the Soviet era.
- Keith Bellows talks to Thomas Friedman about “the future of green technology and travel.”
- Road-tripping Yukon’s Dempster Highway.
- In Australia, incinerated meat “occupies a singular place in the national psyche.”
- World Hum contributor Frank Bures on what’s “possibly Wisconsin’s most famous landmark and definitely one of the world’s strangest tourist attractions.”
- Airports in the U.S. will soon begin testing radar designed to track birds.
- London officials warn: Watch out for those takeaway kebabs!
- Inside the Iron Maiden hotel.
- In the Western U.S. train travel is making “a heady comeback during these volatile energy-conscious times.”
- Scott McCartney on “the quest for perfect airline food.” Wait. Airline food still exists?
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Ling 01.27.09 | 10:09 AM ET
Hard Rock Hotels must be praying hard, hoping the Iron Maiden turns out to be a one hit wonder. :)
Jenna Schnuer 01.27.09 | 10:40 AM ET
Those kebab numbers are sort of beyond (ok, very) scary. A thousand calories (or more) a pop! Now, fish and chips sounds like a light meal.
And pork in some of the halal kebabs. Not good. Not good at all.
Jack Nordrhein-Westfalen 01.27.09 | 10:42 AM ET
That were great links, well overview, more interesting than all stupid stories given in most of newspapers!
Michael Yessis 01.27.09 | 12:24 PM ET
Yeah, I couldn’t believe the figures in the kebab piece, either. How can one kebab have 1,990 calories?
And I love that Iron Maiden is doing the hotel thing. Guess it’s just a natural extension for Bruce Dickinson
http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/travel_headline_of_the_day_iron_maiden_star_flies_in_to_help_stranded_xl_pa/
Thanks, Jack!
Barbara - Krakow 02.09.09 | 11:24 AM ET
By the way, Milk Bars are also enormously cheap in comparison with regular restaurants (even with Kebab places).