Friday, September 16, 2011

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Worst travel fashions, bizarre, amazing hotels, travel tips for parents

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:14 AM PDT

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Airline first: Qantas to trial iPads for in-flight entertainment

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:45 PM PDT

in-flight entertainment

In a world first, Qantas is set to trial iPads as a replacement to seat-back screens and bring wireless technology to in-flight entertainment.

The six-week trial will begin next month on a single Boeing 767-300 and continue until December.

Each of the aircraft's 254 seats will have an iPad2, which will access the aircraft's server -- the Q Streaming app -- via a Wi-Fi connection.

If the trial is successful, it will be rolled out to 10 Qantas Boeing 767-300s next year. Each seat would be fitted with an iPad bracket.

But the program won't be restricted to iPads: Android tabs and smartphones will also be able to access the onboard server.

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First CNN Café opens in Seoul

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:12 PM PDT

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Travelers seeking global news and those in Seoul who don't get CNN at home can now head to the world's first CNN Café.

Managed by YBM, Korea's largest English education company in conjunction with Turner Asia Pacific, CNN Café opened at the Jongro branch of Young Poong Bookstore this week. 

It aims to attract the growing number of the self-employed seeking a coffice (cafe-office) and students who use coffeeshops as a place to study or hang out. As well as a study-distracting CNN ticker, the café offers free Wi-Fi, computers and printing services. 

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Tourists warned to avoid Thailand’s flood zones

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:54 PM PDT

Thai floods

As flooding continues to wreak havoc in Thailand, tourists are being warned to stay away from the country's worst-hit areas and avoid activities like white-water rafting and visits to waterfalls. 

Thaitravelblogs.com posted a statement from Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) stating that flash floods and landslide warnings have been issued for 12 provinces: Satun, Trang, Songkhla, Krabi, Chumphon, Chanthaburi, Trat, Phetchabun, Phitsanulok, Uttaradit, Nan, and Mae Hong Son. 

"For tourist safety, access to waterfalls and white-water rafting in flood-prone areas has been temporarily suspended," TAT warned. 

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Diksha Basu: On trading lives, New York for Mumbai

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:58 PM PDT

In the summer of 2007, I emptied out my apartment in New York City.

I scattered some belongings at various friends' homes, took a car full of things up to my parents' house in Ithaca and packed a bright red Samsonite suitcase with my essentials.

It was an easy life to wrap up. I'd only been living in NYC for two years and I didn't have many loose ends.

While I loved NYC, I also experienced an urban isolation that was sometimes paralysing.

Rachael, my best friend since I was nine, and I sat at the Union Square Café one perfect spring morning and chatted over cups of coffee.

Like me, Rachael felt as though she ought to love NYC more than she did.

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World's best tourists, top Thai dish, expat's underground life

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:58 PM PDT

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16 September 2011
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World's best tourists, top Thai dish, expat's underground life

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:53 PM PDT

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16 September 2011
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为大众的艺术: 上海的公共艺术

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

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上海的公共艺术不仅仅是装饰品。 雕塑、壁画、纪念碑无一不在解析这个城市,传达这座城市的价值观、历史和未来的轨迹。 由于保存了历史赋予它的一切,上海成为了不同类型艺术"遗迹"的殿堂。 虽然不能说上海的公共艺术品都是珍品,但是这些艺术品确实能让我们更深入地了解这座城市曾经的面貌和未来的发展。 

无论是好的不够好的,这儿都有最值得记住的东西。

上海公共艺术: 莫干山路涂鸦墙

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