Morning Links: State Department Recommendations, Guano Seen From Space and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.02.09 | 8:57 AM ET
- The State Department has just updated its list of no-go countries, and several popular tourist spots—among them, Nepal, Colombia, Kenya and Israel—made the cut. Arthur Frommer has a critique.
- Ten new emperor penguin colonies have been located in Antarctica—and all thanks to patches of “excrement-stained ice that are so large they are visible from space.”
- Here’s a shrinking planet story for you: Meet Alfonso Ramirez, the Mexican immigrant who is Glendale, California’s hookah master.
- One of the stars from the entrance to Coney Island’s Astroland has been donated to the Smithsonian—it will be on display in the National Air and Space Museum.
- Travel writer Alain de Botton notes the absence of fiction devoted to our modern working lives, and calls for “an ambitious new literature of the office.”
- In an eerily timed article, Esquire looks at two new memoirs from plane crash survivors.
- Like us, Robert Reid is sick of that s-cation word. He offers 19 alternative -cation formulations. My favorite? The Kevin Bacation.
- Over at Reason Online, Josie Appleton argues that pointless regulations are ruining British pub life.
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Ling 06.02.09 | 9:58 AM ET
Haiti is on a no-go list? Wasn’t Bill Clinton just appointed as a special envoy to Haiti? If it’s safe for someone as important as BIll Clinton to go there regularly, then why can’t ordinary people?