Travel, Cruise

I’m in research mode this morning. I don’t feel like doing real work yet. I’m tired of all the preparations: paperwork for my new job, studying French, studying African geography, making lists of consumables to pack. So I’m browsing for more Burundi information. There’s not a lot out there and there’s not a lot I […]

Visit our Classic NYC Movies Map to… hey, what’s that sound? Sorry, we got distracted by our 1998 e-mail.
When “You’ve Got Mail” opened in theatres and made a jillion dollars, we were young, naive non-New Yorkers. Why wouldn’t a children’s book store owner (Meg Ryan) and a publishing magnate (Tom Hanks) meet on AOL and […]

On the outskirts of Berlin, a Chinese couple is working to build at €500 million Chinatown that’ll be the first in Germany. But classic European bureaucracy is gumming up the works: The project has been in development for three years and ground has yet to be broken.
Before the bulldozers can start rumbling, all manner of […]

Environmentally-conscious travelers who still want to manage some long distances on their journeys might be pleased to hear about the new Butterfly Bus service, which takes you overland from Britain to China in just 16 days. By the sounds of it, most of this time is spent on the bus, but “mini breaks” in Warsaw, […]

Hong Kong is probably best known for quick food and kung fu–not getting dusty and swigging from Nalgene bottles. But with 40 percent of the area protected as parks, hikes in the lush hills outside the city are popular for locals and tourists alike and offer stunning views of the island that shouldn’t be missed.
The […]

To answer that age-old question of hardcore carnivores everywhere, Seoul is where the beef is. For those of you who like your meat red, rare, thinly sliced and lightly seared, the city might feel like one big hibachi with a serious side order of kimchi as a potent sidekick.
We’ve found some smoking fares that should […]

It’s true. We enjoy Virgin America. The airline’s got high-quality entertainment, fun-but-classy crews, low prices and, most importantly, flies where we do. But enough about us. What does grizzled airline reporter Joe Sharkey think?

I was in no mood for a bad trip when I left for a 7 a.m. Virgin America flight to New York. […]

Skybus has announced some new daily nonstop service, as they continue to expand their route system.  Beginning on June 1, Skybus will service New York (Newburgh) to Boston (Portsmouth).  Additionally, they’ll begin flying  from Hartford (Springfield) to Ft. Myers (Punta Gorda) and St. Augustine.  Lastly,  Richmond to St. Augustine flights get added to the line-up […]

Whenever celebrities converge on fancy-dress premieres, the rest of the world reads all about it the next day online or in next week’s US Weekly. But the 9,000 lucky residents of Maysville, Kentucky won’t have to wait to read the press coverage: They’ll be able to see the stars for themselves when George Clooney descends […]

The paint on the third terminal at Singapore’s massive Changi Airport is barely dry, but they’re already thinking about the fourth. According to the Singaporean transport minister:

We must expand our capacity and add the fourth terminal because our status as a global aviation hub is threatened by rivals.
Although we still see Singapore as the […]