Feb 13th, 2009 at 2:00PM: A mutual agreement allowing Europeans, nationals from four Caribbean countries, and citizens of two island nations in the Indian Ocean is expected to be passed and approved by the end of March, which will allow for hassle-free and smoother travel. If you hold a passport from any of the following countries, it means you're that much more free to travel between those listed sans visa: Austria, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Travel sans visa coming for European, Caribbean, Mauritius, and Seychelles nationals
Feb 13th, 2009 at 2:00PM: A mutual agreement allowing Europeans, nationals from four Caribbean countries, and citizens of two island nations in the Indian Ocean is expected to be passed and approved by the end of March, which will allow for hassle-free and smoother travel. If you hold a passport from any of the following countries, it means you're that much more free to travel between those listed sans visa: Austria, ...Keep busy with 44 travel ideas
Jan 10th, 2009 at 2:00PM: If the entire world is too much from which to choose, take a look at The 44 Places to Go in 2009 suggested by the New York Times. Some are obvious, such as Reykjavik, which was been on everyone's mind 2008. Others are easy, including Washington D.C. Our nation's capital has plenty of hotels (including the funky Hotel Helix, photo at right), great public transportation and access via two major ...Need New Year's Eve ideas? Crash some plates!
Dec 20th, 2008 at 5:00PM: I assure you that when the ball drops on the last day of 2008, I will not be in Times Square. I will be nowhere near Times Square. So, unless you like the thought of being shoulder-to-shoulder with people you've never met while freezing and lamenting the lack of public bathrooms in that part of town, take a look at some of the choices you have this year. Chomp twelve grapes in Spain Think of it ...Somalia most corrupt nation -- Denmark the least
Sep 24th, 2008 at 10:00AM: Transparency international released their annual numbers on corruption around the world, and would you believe it, Denmark edged Zimbabwe out by 165 places to clinch the number one spot. Each year the organization dedicated to fighting corruption compiles data from a variety of sources to publish this list as a means to raise public awareness and point to the rampant corruption around the globe. ..."Catastrophe tourism" on the rise in Greenland
Dec 11th, 2007 at 12:30PM: Greenland says it doesn't like to be seen as the global warming poster child, according to an article in Sunday's NY Times entitled "As Ice Recedes, Interest Surges." They have witnessed a spike in "catastrophe tourism," or "Come see if before it's too late" kind of tourism, lately. Apparently it is human nature to enjoy watching things--Greenland, in this case--die.
If morbid curiosity is what ...National Geographic Film Festival
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Oct 1st, 2007 at 1:57PM: The All Roads Film Project is one of those very special, very wonderful National Geographic events which any traveler worth their salt will truly love. The project was launched four years ago "to provide an international platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture artists to share their cultures, stories, and perspectives through the power of film and photography." Man, you can't ...Ingmar Bergman's Sweden: Fårö Island
Aug 25th, 2007 at 1:30PM: There was a political cartoon I came across of two people leaving the Simpson's movie saying to each other "Who's Ingmar Bergman." The cartoon was prompted by the recent death of Ingmar Bergman, the prolific Swedish film director and the box-office success of The Simpson's movie.
Bergman's movies introduced me to Scandinavia--and deep thoughts, and later prompted my attraction to the college ...They Really Are High in Amsterdam!
Jul 16th, 2007 at 8:05PM: You have probably all heard it by now. Americans are no longer the world's tallest people. How much bad news can one take? The dollar is worth close to nothing. Everyone makes fun of Bush. Now Americans are not only the fattest nation but also one of the few that's actually getting short? Good grief.
The new "tallest people" order goes like this:
The Netherlands (average man is almost 6'1"; ...The Surf is Dynamite!
Feb 27th, 2007 at 1:05PM: Viral videos have gotten so good, it's scary. Many folks (10 million hits at last count) were taken in by a recent youtube.com video which shows some kids dynamiting a city pond and then surfing the resulting waves.
On the grainy cellphone-cam footage, you can see kids quickly jumping into a city pond with a surfboard, while their friends run over a bridge, then light and toss dynamite into the ...
