Nov 20th, 2009 at 5:30PM: EasyJet has apologized to everyone who will listen over a fashion shoot that appeared in its inflight magazine.
Did the models wear too little? Did they look like fourteen year-old cokeheads? No, none of the usual stuff; they happened to be posing at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.
Yes, some fashion photographer decided the concrete blocks known as the "Field of Stelae", properly called the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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EasyJet apologizes for Holocaust fashion shoot
Nov 20th, 2009 at 5:30PM: EasyJet has apologized to everyone who will listen over a fashion shoot that appeared in its inflight magazine.
Did the models wear too little? Did they look like fourteen year-old cokeheads? No, none of the usual stuff; they happened to be posing at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.
Yes, some fashion photographer decided the concrete blocks known as the "Field of Stelae", properly called the ...Gadling's 13 stranger than strange sites for Friday the 13th
Nov 13th, 2009 at 5:30PM: Happy Friday the 13th! Tributed to being an unlucky day thanks to wives tales, religion and mythology, this is a day when people might think about altering their travel plans. The thought is, why push your luck? Franklin D. Roosevelt was one such person. He never traveled on the 13th. He even died on April 12, 1945. That, my friends, was on a Thursday. That is kind of strange, no?
In honor of a ...Berlin's best way to shop for the holidays
Nov 11th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Need a change of pace for your holiday shopping? Try Berlin! A new deal from the Hotel Concorde will make this year's hunt for the perfect Christmas present more exciting than ever. The "Shop in the City" package starts with luxurious accommodations and includes plenty of discounts and other shopping perks to help you get the most from your trip.
The Hotel Concorde is right on Berlin's ...Thailand Hitler billboard draws controversy
Oct 19th, 2009 at 11:30AM: digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Thai_Museum_Hitler_is_Not_Dead_Billboard_Ad_Draws_Outrage'; A Hitler billboard in Thailand promoting a local wax museum has locals and foreign governments up in arms. The billboard campaign, which features photos of famous dead people, included a photo of Hitler making the infamous Nazi salute along with the tagline "Hitler is not dead." The ad was part of a ...Berlin brothel to bikers: ride up and save!
Oct 16th, 2009 at 4:00PM: digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Brothel_In_Berlin_Gives_Rebate_On_Sex_If_You_Come_On_Bike'; The travel and hospitality industry has tried so many ways to go green – from trying to wash fewer sheets and towels to using organic products in spas – that you might start to wonder if it's running out of options. Well, if that is a concern, it's probably time to look to the world's ...Ten musical destinations that will rock your world
Aug 24th, 2009 at 10:00AM:
Music has a way of taking you on a journey. Like any great trip, the songs that inspire us are filled with joyous highs and sobering lows, unexpected revelations and exotic uncertainties. It's only natural then that each of us seeks out music during our travels. Whether it's a CD stand in a bustling market in Morocco or a classically-trained violinist playing on a street corner in Paris, music ...CitySounds.fm: the sound of the world
Aug 13th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Travelers often think of destinations in terms of what they see: the Eiffel Tower lit up at night, the gaudy neon of the Las Vegas Strip or the fiery pink of a sunset in Tahiti. Yet it's our other senses - the smells, tastes and particularly for music fans, the sounds that can truly stick in our subconscious, evoking vivid memories of our journey. Those in search of some "sonic wanderlust" need ...Hitler: Scary wax dummy or radioactive monster?
Jul 7th, 2009 at 11:30AM:
While this isn't one of Jeff's features, only a news piece, it really stuck in my mind. Perhaps it was the surreal nature of the story, or the issues it brings up. How to make a museum about the Third Reich without it becoming a shrine to neo-Nazis? How far should protesters go to make their voices heard? Why didn't someone rip off the real Hitler's head?
The trippy photo is cool too, and fits ..."Rule of 3" suffering in Thailand's red light districts
May 29th, 2009 at 6:00PM: The bar girls in Patpong, a destination for so-called "sex travelers," have a basic rule: three inches (duh), three minutes (duh), 3,000 baht (that's around $87).This year, they can add another "3" to it, one third. That's roughly how far tourism revenues are expected to fall in Thailand this year. A projected 35 percent drop means less business and less income in what is largely recognized as one ...Three travel ideas from the ITB Berlin Travel Show
May 11th, 2009 at 4:00PM:
More than 11,000 exhibitors from 187 countries tried to make their mark at the 2009 ITB Berlin Travel Show. They showcased wines, highlighted unique local attractions and generally tried to show that they are the best places in the world for tourists to spend their hard-earned cash. Travel+Leisure tried to describe the industry's hottest trends, but the article really came across as "here are a ...Berlin hotel offers bed, breakfast and a piece of the wall
Mar 1st, 2009 at 11:00AM: The Westin Grand hotel in Berlin has recently added a surprisingly creative package to their lineup of perks. Instead of the usual drab spa services, or package with a snack in your room, the Westin is offering guests the chance to stay at their hotel and take home a piece of the Berlin wall. Right in the main lobby of the hotel is an authentic piece of the wall, weighing in at 2.7 tons. Guests ...Budget Travel: European Spring Break
Feb 10th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Europe. For Spring Break? You must be joking right? Surely in this time of economic crisis and tightened budgets the European continent is out of reach for most, especially for the student traveler looking to save a few bucks on their Spring Break. And that's why we're here to tell you just how remarkably affordable AND easy it is to spend that week off partying it up in Prague, museum-hopping in ...Taking Chessboxing to a whole new level - with a hotel
Jan 25th, 2009 at 3:00PM: It has been 4 years since Gadling devoted an article to the fine sport of Chessboxing. Chessboxing is a hybrid sport combining chess and boxing (duh). The name describes exactly what the sport involves, but if you don't have a very creative imagination, picture a boxing ring with a chess board. The game switches between playing chess and punching the crap out of each other. The sport is ...Berlin celebrates 20 years of wall's collapse
Jan 12th, 2009 at 12:00PM: The Berlin Wall was pulled down 20 years ago, giving birth to a new industry: selling pieces of the Berlin Wall. Remember that? Well, all the pieces were probably bought long ago (well, except the "real" one that you picked up last week, of course), but there is still plenty you can do to celebrate. The list of cultural events is long and impressive, like the German translation of a short word in ...The end of an era - Berlin Tempelhof airport closing today
Oct 30th, 2008 at 3:00PM: At 9:50 pm tonight, Berlin Tempelhof airport will say farewell to its final passenger carrying flight. Fellow Gadling blogger Jeffrey White actually lives several blocks from Tempelhof, and covered the announcement itself back in May, but today is the day when it actually happens. After 80 years of continued operation, one of the oldest airports in the world will shut down for good. Tempelhof is ...Barack Obama in Berlin: One day's diary in the city
Jul 25th, 2008 at 4:00PM:
Barack Obama has come and gone. Here in Berlin, the dust has settled, the public transportation is back running normally and today, the day after Obama's history-making, if not perhaps history-defining, speech, the German media all seem to conclude the same thing: Was that it? Consider today's Web version of the weekly Die Zeit, which concludes: "There was the hope for this one great sentence ...Madame Tussauds: Adolf Hitler to return to Berlin soon
Jul 11th, 2008 at 12:00PM: Madame Tussauds, the world's most overpriced, not to say overrated, tourist attraction, is bucking popular sentiment in Germany and elsewhere by vowing to return a wax statue of Adolf Hitler to its newest museum in Berlin as soon as possible. I posted last week about a protester who managed to rip the head off the wax statue just minutes after Madame Tussauds officially opened to the public last ...Being in Berlin: Graffiti, graffiti, graffiti
Jun 10th, 2008 at 1:00PM: One of the things you cannot not notice in Berlin is graffiti. You'd be hard-pressed to find an abandoned wall or building without it. Somehow, it works here.
Of course, there is graffiti and there is graffiti. While I hate when vandals ruin the facades of baroque building by spray-painting something on them, I have become a big fan of graffiti in Berlin. I guess you can't underestimate the ...Being in Berlin: The 12 most beautiful cities in the world (according to Die Welt)
Jun 9th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Walking along the last remaining piece of the Berlin Wall on Friday, I was a little disturbed by this billboard advertising Die Welt city guides. I had to take a picture of it.
It says: "Visit the 12 most beautiful cities in the world."
It lists them:
Barcelona
Berlin
Rome
Paris
Amsterdam
Munich
Venice
London
Hamburg
New York
Vienna
Milan
I realize it's ...Being in Berlin: Are you a Currywurst or Dner person?
Jun 8th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Greetings from Berlin, the capital of sausage. (Yes, there is arguably more than one capital of sausage out there. I don't want to be getting hate mail from Munich and other seasoned capitals of sausage!)
Horror of all horrors. In the field of fast food and street food in Berlin, the famous Currywurst (consisting of hot pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with curry sauce, consisting of ...
