Travel, Cruise

The skies are really heating up in the southern hemisphere and right now it’s Lion Air that’s making news. It’s an Indonesian-based low cost carrier that’s looking to crack the Australian market, through a partnership with Aussie-owned SkyAirWorld.
The joint venture is actually called Lion Air Australia, and the airline intends to compete on Australian domestic […]

Seawalls on the seashore…
As far back as 1992, the president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, warned that his nation could end up under the ocean by the year 2100. After the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, the entire archipelago was underwater for minutes. And the Kyoto Protocol has done about, well, nothing to keep […]

It’s off to Auckland for Ashley Tisdale, the villainous diva of the “High School Musical” movies, where she will be filming her new adventure/fantasy movie “They Came from Upstairs.” In the film, a group of kids must defend their house from aliens; here, the house in question is a classic Auckland manor recently pressed into […]

Head to where it’s sunny and warm this week and get there just in time for a different kind of festival. February 2 brings Dia de la Candelaria to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where locals celebrate with parades, bullfights and a blessing of the candles.
That’s right, residents bring candles to the church to be blessed for […]

Apparently, teaming up with Boing Boing wasn’t enough. Virgin America has just sealed a deal with Internet video site Revision3, which produces shows like Diggnation, The GigaOm Show, The Totally Rad Show and Tekzilla. With the announcement, we’d say VA is now officially the country’s geekiest airline.
The stuff is sure to be a hit with […]

In some bizarre news to end what has been a bizarre week, reports have come out that a teenage boy was hoping to hijack a Southwest Airlines plane and crash it into a Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert this weekend.
An unnamed 16-year-old allegedly tried to carry handcuffs, duct tape and rope onto a flight from LAX […]

Married man or woman seeks single or married registered voters for long-weekend-night stand. I’m leaving town Tuesday night, but before that, maybe we can have some fun!
If the candidates want to get the most votes for their shoe leather, they ought to go to Wal-Mart, the overwhelming winner for Charleston, South Carolina’s Craigslist most-missed page. […]

Imagine Pamplona’s running with the bulls. Now turn it up about 75 notches. Colombia’s amateur bullfighting competitions–called corralejas–put rodeos, cage fighting and most military combat to shame.
Corralejas go back centuries in Colombia’s Sucre Province, a poor, rural area kept afloat by cattle ranching. Of course, today’s corralejas have a decidedly contemporary twist–and a lot more […]

I know this is ‘old news’, and that the pictures have already gone around the world… but, I’ve had the articles about this on my desk for far too long. Here’s a guy, who, in the midst of the Monizzapoli scandal (garbageopoly) decided to confer a little color on Italy. And, he has succeeded.
First, with […]

There’s no doubt that Gothamites have a sense of adventure when it comes to dining, dressing and dating in the city, but when it comes to forays in the great outdoors, eh, not so much. It’s not that locals aren’t fond of fresh air, but for years, the only way to commune with nature in […]