Morning Links: Railway Hotels, the National Magazine Awards and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.01.09 | 9:06 AM ET
- After more than 40 years in retirement, the Queen Mary may be headed back out on the water.
- Turns out, you don’t actually need to buzz Lower Manhattan to get a shot of Air Force One at work: the New York Daily News has a fun gallery of photoshopped proof.
- The New York Times looks at the SkyMall catalogue in the recession era; Gawker laments the tyranny of SkyMall trend stories.
- The Guardian explores the return of the grand old railway hotel.
- Jaunted follows “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” all over the map.
- In a new documentary, musician Béla Fleck travels through Africa in search of the origins of the banjo. World Hum contributor Ben Keene has a brief review.
- The National Magazine Awards were handed out last night; among travel-related winners, Backpacker picked up a handful of awards, including one for best essay. Here’s the disturbing and compelling The Source of All Things, by Tracy Ross.
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Ling 05.01.09 | 9:58 AM ET
The Queen Mary isn’t going to move an inch. And even if they do blow the $1.5b necessary to get her on the oceans, the whole thing is going to be a big fiasco. A 26-yr old kid leading a Vegas entertainment company which has never managed a hotel nor a ship before. I don’t know why the Queen Mary keeps attracting all these far-fetched dreamers.
Port Macquarie Accommodation 05.06.09 | 6:00 PM ET
It would be great to see the Queen Mary back on the water but I agree with Ling, I doubt it will actually end up happening.