Flight Attendants: They Can Be Naughty or Nice, But Not Both
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
Vancouver: Jaunted Winter Olympics Embed: The Final Days
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics are finally here and the Jaunted Embeds are on the scene. All throughout the games we are going to be providing you first-hand observations and tips from a Vancouver local. Tuija Seipell is a Vancouver-based writer and a dual citizen of both Finland and Canada–so she is bound to get a medal or two right? You can follow her on Twitter here, or just follow the Vancouver 2010 Olympics tag.
As we head into the final days of the Winter Olympics, I’d like to share what I’ve really enjoyed about this experience happening in my town. First, I’ve really loved the overall evening vibe in the city. I’m not talking about just the crowds on Robson Street or at the two Live Cities, or at Molson Hockey House, Club Bud and the many other Houses where long line-ups, expensive beer, large screens and great live music are to be found.
No, what I really love is the happy masses of humanity — people of all ages from all over the world just walking about, many wearing their national colors, photographing and checking out the Olympic cauldron or the light show at Robson Square.
Edinburgh: This is How British Fish and Chips Ought to Look
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
For Americans traveling to London, or really anywhere in the United Kingdom, there is one stereotypical English meal that must be sought out: fish and chips. It’s a comfort food, so it doesn’t matter if you find yourself in the UK all the time or if you’ve been saving up for years for a London vacation, because fish & chips is just one of those things.
We found this perfect juicy specimen of fish & chips (the chips are behind the fish, effectively propping it up) at the inexpensive and cozy pub restaurant called The World’s End in Edinburgh, Scotland recently. Sure it’s right on the Royal Mile and surrounded by shops that try to sell tartan to tourists, but you can’t deny that it’s a damned good place to settle down for a hearty meal, and perhaps sample haggis with one of their appetizers (so you’re not stuck with a whole dinner of it). Forgive us for not devouring some fish & chips wrapped up in newspaper, but that gets greasy messy.
The Jaunted Guide on How to Travel Around the World
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
All this week, we’ve been trying to help you make that bucket list dream come true: to travel around the world. Any way that you can move—including pogo stick, somersaults, or tent on a SUV—you can get from point A to point B, so long as the journey takes you on a circumnavigation of the globe. For our purposes, we’d stick to the usual routes: plane, boat and bus. We considered adding in train travel, but that can be too dangerous/expensive/limiting to bother with, aside from certain countries.
The Jaunted Guide on How to Travel Around the World:
· By Airplane
· By Bus
· By Ship
And we know there are tons more ways that intrepid traveler are making this awesome journey. For instance, we’d love to travel around the world by cargo ship or heck, even by Palanquin, but we aren’t experts in that as we are air, bus and ship travel. So let us know your tips for around-the-world travel. And…What is your dream around-the-world itinerary?
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Virgin America’s ‘Fly Girls’ debut on the CW — premiering in-flight at 35,000 feet
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
Tasha. Louise. Mandalay. Nikole. Farrah. These are Virgin America’s in-flight teammates who will be featured in a docu-series on their whirlwind lives called “Fly Girls” on the CW. Although the show won’t debut on the TV network until 9:30 p.m. March 24, I’ll get a sneak peek at the girls Friday night on Virgin America [...]
Menton: The French Riviera Starts Spring with a Zest Fest for Lemon Lovers
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
It must smell amazing in Menton, France, right now. The city in the French Riviera is holding its 77th annual Lemon Festival, which pays homage to the lemon, through March 3.
According to the Menton Office of Tourism, the festival attracts more than 250,000 lemon lovers every year. The fest honors Menton’s nickname as “the City of Lemons,” since citrus was a main crop for the area, something the city is looking to recapture. The Menton lemon is supposed to be rich in acid and essence and has a high essential oil content in the peel. And really, anywhere you go in the French and Italian Rivieras will try to push some local-made products on you, from lemon soap to limoncello liqueur.
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Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
continue readingTripIt’s shared itineraries can really annoy your friends
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
The Daily Travel & Deal Blog has been really digging TripIt’s online travel organizer. The website’s mobile companion made our list of “21 useful travel iPhone apps.” We don’t hesitate to recommend it to friends who do a lot of traveling. But with all this good word-of-mouth, why would TripIt try to desperately force itself [...]
Carbon Footprints Coming to the In-Flight Menu on Thai Airways
Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
Thai Airways is revamping their in-flight menu, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the food. The airline is actually adding carbon footprint information to their menus, so that travelers will know exactly what comes with that Chicken Mussaman Curry. There’s nothing like a side of guilt to go along with the vegetables.
The airline is participating in the Carbon Footprint Technical Cooperation Project for Thai Products. Here, Thai companies are sharing carbon footprint information in hopes of lowering energy usage while letting the world know that they mean business when it comes to green goods. Just so you’re aware, if you decide to go with the Green Curry with steamed Thai Hom Mali Rice on your next flight it will set you back 13.9 kg CO2 e per 250g serving.
