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Turns out Rafat Ali, the founder of the digital content news site paidContent, is as hooked on airport photo shoots as we are.

The only part of airports that I like: celebrity sightings. Below is a small collage of my sightings over the last six months: the latest was the biggest: a very frail […]

I feel like we’re just getting started when I say goodbye to Fernanda, but I have to meet my second guide, Jose - a trumpet player I contacted through couchsurfing.com. Fernanda had provided the perfect overview of Quito and Ecuador, now I was keen to meet someone who could unlock a specific side of the […]

Even though the Middle East already has five low cost carriers in operation, the UAE has decided that it needs another one. In a slightly complicated-sounding business arrangement, Emirates is going to help the government set up a Dubai-based budget airline–which doesn’t yet have a name–and one of Emirates’ current VPs will then resign from […]

We told you Oman would go mainstream, but we didn’t know it would go right-wing. As part of a 10-day tour in the Middle East, Vice President Dick Cheney took some time in the gulf state to rant about Iran and the nuclear threat–and then borrowed the sultan’s 60-foot yacht to go fishing.
A fishing trip […]

It’s always baffled us that people will drop hundreds of dollars on Broadway shows without even knowing the plot of the musical they’re gonna see. And we’ve heard more than a few stories that end with “Anyway, had I known those puppets were gonna have sex, I wouldn’t have taken my parents.”
Fortunately, The New York […]

Yeah, we’d love to set you up this week, but our eyes are glued to our brackets as March Madness begins. What’s spring break when we can spend the next two weeks in sticky bars yelling at the TV?
Luckily Craigslist can help you find the cilantro in your guacamole, the buffalo on your wings:
Pegasus :: […]

We’ve been coming to you live from Uruguay this week, where we’ve been scouting the chivito scene, taking in plenty of sun and trying not to eat more than two steaks a day. (It’s been hard.)
Stopping at places like Mercado del Puerto in Montevideo hasn’t made it any easier. This big meat market–as in they […]

We may be seasoned travelers, but there are a few things we just can’t resist–like this just released trailer for the new “Mamma Mia!” movie musical. It’s not just that we love the film’s stars Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, and so on. We’re absolutely in love with the locations!
While […]

When news broke that three separate contractors looked at Barack Obama’s passport file three times since January, it got us thinking about protecting your personal information while traveling.
According to State Department spokesman Sean McCormack the breach appears to be an “imprudent curiosity” among the contract workers who viewed Obama’s passport.
This incident was […]

For those of us who get paid in $US Dollars, traveling at the best hotels and restaurants can take a real toll on one’s bank account. I’d like to plan a really memorable vacation in the next few months, but I’d prefer to get more value for the dollar, if that’s even possible. Even Canada […]