Morning Links: Swine Flu and Travel, Antarctic Ice and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 04.29.09 | 9:00 AM ET
- An ice cap “bigger than Singapore or Bahrain and almost the size of New York City” has broken off the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- In Britain, a woman who changed her name to Pudsey Bear for a charity drive has been denied a new passport.
- The Economist gets on the two-wheeled transit bandwagon.
- Five major cruise lines have suspended all visits to Mexican ports over swine flu fears, while in Europe, France plans to ask the EU to suspend all flights to the country, as well.
- The always-classy CEO of Ryanair weighs in on swine flu, opining that it “is a tragedy only for people living ... in slums in Asia or Mexico.” (Via Gadling)
- This Just In offers a quick guide to the Eiffel Tower’s 120th birthday celebrations.
- Planning to catch the
GratefulDead on their reunion tour? Slate has a handy guide explaining what your favorite Dead song says about you. - And the Travel Headline of the Day goes to ... Travel writers send American tourists to London’s rundown Deptford. Says one local politician: “I hope they like hoodies, muggers and junkies—there are enough of them here.”
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Ling 04.29.09 | 10:33 AM ET
Isn’t Wilkins the same place where some ice bridge between a coupla islands broke off a few weeks back? Remember reading in the BBC that the ice would be free to start flowing out into the Antarctic, but I didn’t think it would start so soon.
Swine Flu 04.29.09 | 12:27 PM ET
I think they should suspend the traveling and closed the borders until they contain this Swine Flu undercontrol.
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swineflurecommendations 04.30.09 | 3:21 PM ET
The WHO so far has not suggested that people put off travel to other parts of the world, nor have they suggested that any country close its borders. I would suggest that people keep in touch with the Smart Traveller website of the Commonwealth Department of Health.
You can see more swine flu recommendations and a Complete Swine Flu Guide at: http://www.swineflurecommendations.com/