Nov 28th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
We were ready to leave Cuba. We had toasted our last mojitos, danced our last salsa steps and bid farewell to our home-stay hosts with promises to return.
But Cuba had other plans for us – or rather, Cubana Airlines did.
We arrived at Jose Marti International Airport two hours before departure. One counter was open, with a line at least one hundred deep. Yup, we were ready to ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Stranded In Cuba
Nov 28th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
We were ready to leave Cuba. We had toasted our last mojitos, danced our last salsa steps and bid farewell to our home-stay hosts with promises to return.
But Cuba had other plans for us – or rather, Cubana Airlines did.
We arrived at Jose Marti International Airport two hours before departure. One counter was open, with a line at least one hundred deep. Yup, we were ready to ...Stranded Swedish man survives 2 months in his car
Feb 22nd, 2012 at 8:00AM: A Swedish man, who had been missing for more than two months, was found alive, but in extremely poor condition, in a remote region of that country last week. The man was forced to survive on just snow and ice, after becoming stranded when his car got stuck in deep snow.
Last Friday, the 44-year old Peter Skyllberg was discovered by two others who passed his semi-buried vehicle while ...37 skiers were stranded in Yosemite backcountry
Mar 26th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Earlier this week a late season blizzard hit Yosemite National Park, burying the region in snow and leaving 37 skiers stranded in the backcountry. Fortunately they all escaped unharmed, but were given a healthy reminder of the dangers of traveling in the wilderness during the winter.
A group of 21 cross country skiers made their way to the Glacier Point region of the park along a trail that ...Winter weather got you stranded at the airport? Use these ten gadgets to kill some time!
Jan 19th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
Being stuck at an airport for any length of time is never an entertaining experience - and when winter weather forces you to spend more than a day inside the terminal building, things get really boring. There are only so many ways you can keep yourself busy with CNN Airport edition and a stale bagel.
Thankfully, technology can once again come to the rescue - we've collected ten gadgets and ...Hundreds of trekkers stranded in Himalaya due to bad weather
Nov 20th, 2010 at 8:00AM: More than 2000 travelers remain stranded in the Himalaya after bad weather moved into the region earlier this week. High winds and thick cloud cover have conspired to cut off all flights back to Kathmandu, leaving the high altitude trekkers with an unexpected extended stay in the mountains.
Most of the travelers were returning from treks in the Khumbu Region of Nepal, which includes hikes up to ...Tour operator Goldtrail goes bankrupt, strands 16,000
Jul 17th, 2010 at 11:30AM: UK company Goldtrail Travel Ltd announced it had gone bankrupt at 4pm yesterday. The revelation, made just an hour before the end of the work week, has left the travel plans of thousands of customers in doubt. About 16,000 customers are already abroad on Goldtrail flights and package tours, mostly in Turkey and Greece.
Goldtrail operates under the names Goldtrail Holidays, Goldtrail Travel, and ...Survival guide app
Jul 8th, 2010 at 1:00PM: No one likes to think of the bad things that could happen on a trip. But what would you do if you survived a plane crash, were caught in a terrorist attack, or encountered a tsunami while on vacation? Well wonder no more iphone users. The SAS Survival Guide has been around in book form for over twenty years but now there's an app.
John "Lofty" Wiseman spent years as a soldier and instructor for ...The Gadling "stranded at the airport" survival guide
May 6th, 2010 at 12:30PM:
What better time to remind you of the possibility of being stranded at the airport, than in the aftermath of the Eyjafjallajoekull ash cloud disruption?
During that dark period of air travel, 7 million people were stranded at airports all around the world. Flights were canceled as far away as New Zealand, and even passengers just two hour flights away from home found themselves taking ...Stranded in Washington, DC? Get to The Jefferson
Feb 9th, 2010 at 2:00PM: The Jefferson Hotel Washington, DC is offering some special deals for snowed-in travelers, so send this to your needy friends.
The Winter Storm Special is taking place tonight and tomorrow night (February 9 & 10), and it features Deluxe rooms which usually go for $380 for just $195. This is a great opportunity to make lemonade out of your lemons and stay in a luxury Relais & ...Hundreds of tourists stranded at Machu Picchu after flooding
Jan 27th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Severe flooding in Peru has caused several landslides that have left hundreds (reports range from 1500 to 2500) of people stranded at Machu Picchu. Many of the landslides happened on Saturday, killing one tourist and his guide, and leaving others stuck in spots along the Inca Trail that leads to the site. The 40-mile railway that connects the ancient site to Cuzco was also blocked by the ...Hundreds stranded by malfunctioning monorail at Disney World
Dec 15th, 2009 at 1:30PM: Disney World is supposed to be the "happiest place on earth", but for about 300 people who were trapped on the monorail when three trains broke down early Sunday morning, it was probably anything but.
The system suffered a power outage brought on by a failed hard drive around 1am on Sunday. The Magic Kingdom had been open late, and the trains were carrying the last of the park's visitors back ...Help save the sea lions when you stay at Portofino Hotel and Yacht Club
Aug 9th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Warm waters caused by El Nino currents may be responsible for the record number of sea lions that have shown up weak and hungry along the California coast this year. In Sausalito, the Marine Mammal Center says it has rescued a record number of exhausted and malnourished sea lions, who can't find enough food to survive because the squid and anchovies they normally eat have headed out into colder ...Ryanair fumbles check-in, hundreds delayed
Aug 4th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Hundreds of Ryanair passengers were left behind on Sunday, when a shortage of check-in desks caused them to miss their flights out of London's Stansted Airport. The airline, which encourages passengers to check in online, only opened 11 check-in desks on one of the UK's busiest travel weekends of the year, when 255 flights were scheduled to depart. 23 desks were open the previous weekend.
Over ...Argentine cruise ship runs aground on iceberg near Antarctica
Dec 7th, 2008 at 1:00PM: Imagine you are an entrepreneur who runs a cruise ship company offering tours of Antarctica. You ferry people down to one of the world's last remote continents, running your vessel and its passengers through some of the roughest waters on earth. Now imagine that your Antarctica-bound cruise ship encounters a freakishly out of place iceberg (icebergs near the South Pole? No way!) and suddenly runs ...Thai Protesters Shut Down Bangkok's Airport
Nov 27th, 2008 at 12:00PM: Anti-government protesters in Bangkok have ramped up their campaign against the the party of prime minister Somchai Wongsawat. Early yesterday, supporters of the PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) stormed past police lines and entered Suvarnabhumi International Airport. When they reached the departure areas, airport officials decided to shut the airport down. Several thousand tourists and ...There Is Hope for the Stranded
Sep 21st, 2007 at 5:20PM: Yes, flying is bad. Not flying, however, can be worse. June 2007 was the worst month for taxi-out times (the time between boarding and taking off) in a decade, with 462 planes stuck on the ground for more than 3 hours, today's International Herald Tribune reports.
Once a while, you hear stories of passengers frustrated with the airline industry who can turn their rage into something ...Castaway New York Style: Stranded on a Deserted Island in Jamaica Bay
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Jul 12th, 2007 at 12:08PM: Purposely stranding one's self on a deserted island and living off the land until help arrives is a deep-rooted fantasy for most males. Fueled in my youth by the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the Swiss Family Robinson, and the characters in Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, I too count myself as a wannabe castaway.
Grant Stoddard does as well. The only difference is that he went and acted on ...
