travel This route is not operating until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT Due to the reduction in service because of COVID-19 virus, this route is not operating until further notice. Weekday – The following routes are operating on a Saturday schedule: 101, 104, 105, 108, 109, 112, 120 and 301; Route 301 has added additional weekday trips to its schedule, which are highlighted in yellow. Route 303 is also operating on a weekday schedule. Saturday – DART is operating normal Saturday service. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel This route is not operating until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT Due to the reduction in service because of COVID-19 virus, this route is not operating until further notice. Weekday - The following routes are running on a Saturday schedule: 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 25, 28, 31, 33, 40, 46, 47, 54, 55 and 301; Route 43 is operating on its regular weekday service; Route 18 is operating on limited service; Routes 15 and 301 have added additional weekday trips to its schedule, the additional trips are highlighted in yellow. Weekend – DART is operating normal weekend service. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel Route 43 is operating on its regular weekday service. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel This route is operating on a modified schedule until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT Route 18 is operating on limited service, the trips are highlighted in yellow on the PDF schedule. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel This route is operating on a modified schedule until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT Weekday – Route 15 is operating on a Saturday schedule and has added additional weekday trips to its schedule that are highlighted in yellow on the PDF schedule. Weekend – DART is operating normal weekend service. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel This route is operating on a modified schedule until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT Weekday – Route 301 is operating on a Saturday schedule and has added additional weekday trips to its schedule that are highlighted in yellow on the PDF schedule. Saturday – DART is operating normal weekend service. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel This route is operating on a modified schedule until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT Weekday – This route is operating on a Saturday schedule. Saturday – DART is operating normal Saturday service. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel This route is operating on a modified schedule until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT Weekday – This route is operating on a Saturday schedule. Saturday – DART is operating normal Saturday service. If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel Route 303 is operating on its regular weekday service. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel Route 206 is operating on its regular weekday service. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:15:00 GMT If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel Face Coverings Required on Public Transportation By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT Governor Carney’s State of Emergency declaration, starting Tuesday, April 28, requires the wearing of face coverings on public transportation until further notice. To comply, passengers* must wear face coverings when riding any DART bus, fixed route or paratransit, or SEPTA train, and while waiting at a bus stop or train station with others. Those not wearing face coverings will not be allowed to board the bus or train. Please continue to practice social distancing. Thank you for your cooperation.*children 12 years and under are not required to wear a face covering nor are individuals who are unable to wear a face covering due to a medical condition; children ages 2 and under must not wear them. Full Article
travel Dover Mall bus stop will not be served until further notice. By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:30:00 GMT Due to the reduction in service due to COVID-19, the following bus stop will not be served until further notice: Temporarily Closed Bus Stops:US Route 13 at Dover Mall Boscovs (ID 384) For these above temporarily closed bus stop, please board on US Route 13 at Best Buy and Michaels (ID 2831). If you are feeling sick, please do not take public transit or visit public facilities. For more information on the state's response to the Coronavirus, visit de.gov/coronavirus. Thank you. Full Article
travel SEPTA to Restore Train Service to Claymont & Wilmington Starting May 10 By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 13:30:00 GMT Please be advised that SEPTA Train Service to Claymont and Wilmington will resume daily service effective Sunday, May 10For more information and schedule details, please visit www.septa.org. Thanks for riding! Full Article
travel Rt.105 New Bus stops on Sorghum Mill Road By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 17:30:00 GMT Rt. 105 Sorghum Mill Road Flag Stops to Become Regular DART Bus StopsEffective Monday, May 18, DART bus Rt.105 flag stops currently serving the Eagles Meadows Community will be discontinued, and replaced by new, regular DART bus stops as part of the DART May 2020 Service Change.Notices will be posted at the following new bus stops located on Sorghum Mill Road and Carolina Avenue at Eagles Meadows and on Sorghum Mill Road opposite Carolina Avenue.Thanks for riding DART! For your traveling convenience, please download the free DART Transit app. Full Article
travel Bus stops on Delaware Ave. in downtown Wilmington temporarily closed starting 5-11 By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:00:00 GMT Due to road construction on Delaware Ave., the following Route 10 bus stops will be temporarily closed starting Monday, May 11 through Friday, May 15 from 8 AM to 5 PM each day. Temporarily closed stops:Going to Rising Sun LaneDelaware Ave. at Lincoln St. #3814Delaware Ave. at DuPont St. #1396Board at the stops located on Delaware Ave. at Clayton St., #131 or Union St. at 17th St., #1399 Going to Routes 273 & 7 Park & RideDelaware Ave. at Union St. #1468Delaware Ave. at Lincoln St. #1469Delaware Ave. at DuPont St. #1471Delaware Ave. at Clayton St. #138Board at the bus stops on Delaware Ave. at Bancroft Parkway #1466 OR Delaware Ave. at Broom St. #1473. Thanks for riding! For your traveling convenience download the free DART Transit app. Full Article
travel Bus stop at Newark Transit Hub temporarily closed on 5/11 By www.dartfirststate.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:15:00 GMT Due to construction at the Newark Transit Hub, the bus stop on Farmer Lane at Delaware Ave., #3678, will be temporarily closed on Monday, May 11 from 7 AM to 5 PM. Please board at the bus stop located at the Newark Transit Hub on Pomeroy Lane at Main St., #3679. A notice will be posted at affected bus stop directing riders to the alternate boarding location. Thanks for riding! For your traveling convenience download the free DART Transit app. Full Article
travel Elderly and Disabled Transit Advisory Committee (EDTAC) By www.deldot.gov Published On :: Wed, 13 May 2020 17:00:00 GMT This meeting will be via Teleconference. To join please call in: State of Delaware (302) 526-5475 State of Delaware North(302) 256-5875 Conference ID:1462372 https://meet.state.de.us/belinda.strickland/DHH0VYKV Conference ID:1462372 [More] Full Article Public Meeting
travel Fully booked By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 1993-12-19T18:22:58Z Eric Newby, former travel editor of the Observer, became hooked on travellers’ tales when he was eight. Here he recalls his favourite anecdotes and lists his top travel booksJust as top men in Levi Strauss are said to wake up in San Francisco wondering whether anyone is going to want to buy their jeans any more, so booksellers must have begun to wonder whether the apparently insatiable demand for travel books will suddenly end, never to return. It is unlikely. Travel is one of the principal activities of the human race. If the sales of travel books falter, it will be because the sale of books generally is in decline. There are so many reasons for travelling, so much to record: commercial travellers selling arms to the Iraqis, Pepsi plants to the Chinese, Protestant Bibles to Catholics, as Borrow did in Spain, Catholic Bibles to Protestants, then wondering why they get put on the rack, or fried; commercial travellers such as I was - now known as reps - tottering up the back stairs of stores with armfuls of large-size dresses, only to find that the buyer had 'gone to coffee'. All worth a book if the travellers know how to write. Continue reading... Full Article Literary trips Eric Newby Books Culture Travel
travel 10 of the best ways to travel by Dervla Murphy By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2009-01-03T00:01:00Z In this age of mobile phones, cybercafes and satellite links, it's harder than ever to truly escape ... but not impossible. Dervla Murphy, who has ventured to the ends of the earth with only the most basic provisions, explains howThe individual traveller's "age of adventure" has long since been ended by "S&T" (science and technology: an abbreviation that dates me). Now our planet's few remaining undeveloped expanses are accessible only to well-funded expeditions protected by mobile phones and helicopters - enterprises unattractive to the temperamental descendents of Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley et al. Happily, it's still possible for such individuals to embark on solo journeys through little-known regions where they can imagine how real explorers used to feel. Reviewers tend to describe my most exhilarating journeys as "adventures", though to me they are a form of escapism - a concept unfairly tainted with negative connotations. If journeys are designed as alternatives to one's everyday routine, why shouldn't they be escapist? Why not move in time as well as space, and live for a few weeks or months at the slow pace enjoyed by our ancestors? In recent decades everything has become quicker and easier: transport, communications, heating, cooking, cleaning, dressing, shopping, entertaining. "S&T" have reduced physical effort to the minimum - but are we genetically equipped to cope with our effortless new world? The stats show increasing numbers of us developing ulcers, having nervous breakdowns, eating too much or too little, taking to drink and/or drugs, retreating from our own reality in plastic surgery clinics. It's surely time to promote the therapeutic value of slow travel. Continue reading... Full Article Travel Cuba holidays Russia holidays Ethiopia holidays Romania holidays India holidays Peru holidays
travel On the trail of Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2012-09-28T09:12:00Z Ahead of a new Patrick Leigh Fermor biography, our writer visits the Mani peninsula, home of the great man and unsung resting place of another British travel writing giant, Bruce ChatwinTo read an extract from Leigh Fermor's book, Mani, Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, click hereOld Mr Fotis turned my question over in his mind while sipping his morning coffee. Below the veranda some youths had been playing noisily on the harbour wall, but now they all dived into the turquoise sea and set off on the long swim to the rocky island in the bay. It had a fragment of crenellated wall on top of it, the ruins of a Venetian fortress. Fotis watched them go, half-smiling."We do seem to attract a lot of writers," said the old man eventually. "But that's a name I don't remember." Continue reading... Full Article Greece holidays Literary trips Walking holidays Patrick Leigh Fermor Bruce Chatwin Travel
travel Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2010-10-15T23:05:10Z The travel writer Pico Iyer has known Tokyo - Guardian readers' favourite non-European city - for decades but is still captivated by its curiosities and contradictionsIt makes perfect sense that Tokyo is Guardian readers' favourite overseas city. Now that Shanghai looks in parts like Beverly Hills and Delhi is lighting up with Thai restaurants, there are few cities on the planet that are less western than Tokyo – even if it's not necessarily a part of any east that you might recognise. The abiding allure of Japan's huge network of tiny details is that, like something in a Salman Rushdie novel, it seems to blur all notions of high and low, east and west, old and new into one state-of-the-art global amusement park that is wildly fresh and novel in its best incarnations, and at least zany in its worst.I've lived at a safe distance from Japan's capital for 23 years now, in Kyoto and Nara, three or four hours away by train and several centuries away in terms of their antique pasts. But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds' electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century. Instead I'd begin by looking for the old. Continue reading... Full Article Tokyo holidays Japan holidays Asia City breaks Travel Cultural trips
travel Novelist Jessie Burton on Amsterdam By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2015-02-27T11:00:07Z The author of The Miniaturist on the beguiling blend of tradition and modernity (and pancakes) in a city that provided the inspiration for her 17th-century-set debut novel and Waterstones Book of the Year 2014Top 10 free things to do in AmsterdamA new Amsterdam – and a new RijksmuseumAmsterdam is classically romantic but is also funky, forward-thinking and citizen-friendly. In the old centre, around the southern canal belt, there are these beautiful 17th-century merchants’ houses that 21st-century Amsterdammers still live in. I’ve always thought it wears its historical cloak quite casually and doesn’t just dwell in the past.The Rijksmuseum is stunning and I love it as a fascinating, cool, accessible museum, as well as for the part it played in inspiring The Miniaturist. I came across Petronella Oortman’s doll’s house there by chance. It’s an exact scale replica of her real home, and Oortman spent a fortune having it created. I thought at the time it was an interesting story, but I didn’t think I was going to write a novel about it. I’m in its debt, really. Continue reading... Full Article Amsterdam holidays Netherlands holidays Europe holidays Travel Books Culture
travel Uzbekistan's magnificent cities: where Soviet style meets Islamic heritage By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-06-24T13:04:15Z From Tashkent to Samarkand and Bukhara, travel writer Caroline Eden believes Uzbekistan offers a dazzling mix of traditional style and a modern outlookTwenty five years after the fall of the USSR, it’s interesting how the Soviet-era hangover lingers in Uzbekistan. Hulking apartment blocks are gradually being upgraded, and while you won’t spot statues of Lenin (they’ve been replaced by the nomadic conqueror Tamerlane and celebrated medic Ibn-Sina) you will see plenty of samovars (Russian kettles) and Soviet military medals for sale in the markets. But you will also see master ikat weavers reviving weaving traditions, and many musicians and artists are now turning to their Islamic heritage for influence. This mix of Soviet legacy and Uzbek Islam is one of the things that makes the country so fascinating. Continue reading... Full Article Uzbekistan holidays Travel Asia
travel ‘Kathmandu is still a place of magic’: Sir Chris Bonington By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2017-10-21T09:00:19Z Despite much change, the Nepalese capital’s staggering views and warm memories are as vivid as ever for the veteran mountaineer and leader of 19 Himalayan expeditionsMy first sight of Kathmandu and the Himalayas was in 1960 as part of Lt Col Jimmy Roberts’s expedition – we made the first successful ascent of Annapurna II. At 7,937 metres, it’s a superb peak that’s just short of what mountaineers see as the magical height: 8,000 metres.Arriving in Kathmandu was extraordinary. There was only one hotel, the Royal, an old palace run by a wonderful, eccentric Russian called Boris. There was also just one guesthouse, and practically no tourists. Continue reading... Full Article Nepal holidays Asia Mount Everest holidays Climbing holidays Heritage Travel
travel Ranger Betty Soskin, 93, on the Rosie the Riveter national park, California By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2015-05-08T12:30:02Z The oldest national park ranger in the US tells us why she’s proud of the second world war home front park in Richmond, just across the bay from San FranciscoI settled in the greater Bay Area as a six-year-old in 1927. When I graduated from high school in 1938, my two opportunities for employment were working in agriculture or being a domestic servant. At that time, labour unions weren’t racially integrated and, during the war, I worked as a clerk for the segregated boilermakers’ union. Continue reading... Full Article San Francisco holidays Heritage California holidays United States holidays North and Central America holidays Travel National parks
travel 'It is fantastic, better than travelling to the moon' – David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2015-12-21T13:53:19Z The 89-year-old naturalist and broadcaster is brimming with enthusiasm for his latest TV series, Great Barrier Reef, and the wonder of filming underwater in a submarine. The first of three shows starts on BBC1 on 30 December The first time I visited the Great Barrier Reef was in 1957 when I was on my way to New Guinea. In those days, television didn’t have a lot of money so, when you got to the other side of the world, you took advantage of it as you never knew when you were going to get back again, and so I took in the Barrier Reef on the way.It was right at the beginning of the era of underwater swimming. There had been a Viennese pair, Han and Lotte Hass, who had a show underwater called Diving to Adventure. Those of us who had television sets – our jaws dropped! This wonderful girl in this white costume just knocking sharks on the head with the camera. Amazing! Continue reading... Full Article Great Barrier Reef holidays Queensland holidays David Attenborough Australia holidays Australasia holidays Australia travel blog Travel Television Television & radio Culture
travel ‘Moderate becoming good’: my journey to every place in the shipping forecast By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-02T06:00:15Z From Fair Isle to German Bight, Charlie Connelly has visited all 31 sea areas, but still finds the poetry of the daily radio odyssey mesmerisingThe shipping forecast is probably the closest thing we have in the modern age to a national epic. The institution’s rhythms and rituals have changed little since it was first broadcast on New Year’s Day 1924: there is poetry in the daily litany and mystery in its terminology. “The radio’s prayer,” Carol Ann Duffy called it. For Seamus Heaney it was “a sibilant penumbra”.The forecast reminds us we’re a maritime nation and its map binds us to our continent, covering not only our own coasts and waters but an area extending from Norway to Portugal to Iceland. There is democracy in its geography, where tiny Fair Isle carries as much heft as mighty Biscay while Lundy, a sliver of rock in the Bristol Channel, is equal in importance to the Irish Sea. And from the salty old seadog in his brine-encrusted fishing boat to the merchant banker on his yacht, the shipping forecast, all seafarers are equally reliant on it. Continue reading... Full Article United Kingdom holidays Norway holidays Denmark holidays Iceland holidays Europe holidays Travel Met Office BBC UK weather Radio Television & radio
travel The jewellers of Jaipur's Johari Bazaar – a photo essay By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2019-07-11T10:52:08Z Unesco has named the capital of Rajasthan, India, a world heritage site, partly for its jewellery and artisanal traditions, which continue to thrive on one of its main commercial streets ‘Sir, want precious stones?” a man asks me, quietly. I am on the Johari Bazaar, one of Jaipur’s most notable thoroughfares, a straight colonnade screened above by the facades of adjoining houses. Everything is painted orange, terracotta and burnt pink. The man wears white shalwar kameez, and an air of indifference. He unfolds white paper, revealing colourful stones. “Emeralds, sapphires, rubies …” he says. He is among one of several groups of men gathered in this area; they’re local dealers, discussing prices. The avenue, whose name means gem shop road, is lined with dozens of shops displaying magnificent necklaces, bracelets and rings. Continue reading... Full Article Rajasthan holidays Travel photography Heritage Shopping trips India holidays Asia Travel Photography Art and design Craft Life and style Heritage
travel Trans-Siberian Railway: a view from Moscow to Vladivostok – a photo essay By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-12-27T06:30:04Z On a 9,288km journey inspired by the centennial anniversary of the railway’s completion in 1916, photographer Annie Ling captures life onboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, and beyond the carriage window Continue reading... Full Article Russia holidays Travel photography Rail travel Asia Europe holidays Travel Photography Art and design
travel Tasmania's devil of a climb: a photo essay By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2019-02-28T06:30:43Z On a climbing trip in Australia – to the rock formations below Mount Wellington near Hobart – Murdo MacLeod gets more drama than he bargained forClimbing guide John Fischer Continue reading... Full Article Tasmania holidays Adventure travel Climbing holidays Travel Australia holidays Australasia holidays Travel photography Photography
travel Alive with artisans: Cairo’s al-Darb al-Ahmar district – a photo essay By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2018-03-21T06:30:03Z Amid the historic quarter’s busy streets, a thousand workshops maintain centuries-old craftmaking traditions. These workers’ ancient skills are celebrated in a new exhibition at London’s Royal Geographical Society“Whatever manufactured items there are in the world,” wrote the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi in 1671, “the poor of Cairo get hold of them, set them out and trade in them.” Nearly 350 years later, this tradition lives on in al-Darb al-Ahmar. This neighbourhood of 100,000 people, south-east of central Cairo, is said to be home to a thousand workshops. The place teems with artisans crafting everything from tents, books, boxes and brass lanterns to glass bowls and silk carpets. Continue reading... Full Article Cairo holidays Travel photography Egypt holidays Africa holidays Travel Photography
travel Tea and history: an evocative brew in Chengdu, China By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2018-11-06T06:30:23Z This centuries-old teahouse in Sichuan province and its regulars are a world away from China’s modern megacitiesOut in the western suburbs of Sichuan’s capital, Chengdu, the town of Pengzhen is home to what’s said to be the oldest teahouse in China. About 300 years old, the Guanyin Pavilion is at the heart of a tiny community of historic streets where, against a tide of rapid modernisation, the local population proudly preserves its heritage and traditional way of life. Continue reading... Full Article China holidays Travel photography Heritage Cultural trips Food and drink Asia Travel Tea Photography
travel Chadar, India: The end of the Ice Road – in pictures By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2017-04-13T10:00:01Z Our project to document communities undergoing irreversible change took us to the frozen Zanskar river, which connects Ladakh and Zanskar in northern India.Michał and I began our Before its Gone project at the start of 2017, with the aim of identifying, visiting and documenting locations and communities that are experiencing rapid (and irreversible) changes. The idea is to notice these changes so they can be remembered – and learned from.Our first expedition was along the frozen Zanskar river that links Ladakh and Zanskar in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. When the temperature drops to -30C and mountain passes get covered with metres of snow, the Zanskar region becomes inaccessible for the winter, and the frozen river the only route connecting it with the rest of the world. For hundreds of years villagers across the mountains have used Chadar (the ice road trek) to get to school, work or to see a doctor. But that will change soon, as the Indian government plans to build a new road here. However, as our translator Stanzin Tundup told us, the road may not be the biggest engine for change. Continue reading... Full Article Travel photography Adventure travel India holidays Heritage Asia Travel Photography
travel Appenines to Afghanistan: Eric Newby's travels in pictures By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-04-30T05:30:12Z A new virtual exhibition, What the Traveller Saw, the first of its kind by the Royal Geographical Society, marks the centenary of the birth of the writer and former Observer travel editor Continue reading... Full Article Travel photography Travel Eric Newby Travel writing
travel The imaginary American town that became a tourist attraction By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-03T10:00:49Z Map-makers insert fake towns or trap-streets to catch out plagiarists, but Agloe, in New York state, took on a strange life of its ownIn 2008, Argleton village in west Lancashire appeared on Google, complete with weather reports, a job site and an estate agent advertising houses for sale. Argleton vanished two years later. While its site was – and still is – a damp field in the middle of nowhere, it’s worth noting that Argleton is an anagram of G Not Real. Although Google never admitted to having created it, Argleton was a phantom settlement, planted as a trap.In the world of digital mapping and cartography, snares to catch unwary plagiarists take the form of fake roads or places, known as “trap streets” or “paper towns”. For some, such as Lye Close or Noereal Road, the clue is in the name. (A real alleyway in Cardiff that served as a trap street in the 2014 Dr Who episode Face the Raven may, conversely, be the world’s only fictional fictional street.) Continue reading... Full Article Maps United States holidays North and Central America holidays Travel
travel Feel the heat: Gilles Peterson's Brazilian playlist By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-04-29T12:29:17Z From samba to jazz and house, the DJ and founder of radio station Worldwide FM picks 10 tracks to transport you to BrazilOriginally released in 1980, this funky track from solo artist Cristina Camargo is pure “80s vibes”, Peterson says. “I’ve been loving this boogie tune, produced by Lincoln Olivetti and Robson Jorge, of late. It lifts the mood every time.” Olivetti and Jorge crafted Rio’s early-80s boogie sound, and produced classic albums by Brazilian disco legends in the mid-70s. “It reminds me of line dancing in Rio, particularly on a Sunday afternoon in Lapa, where sound systems play a mixture of this and classic British 80s cuts by the likes of Lisa Stansfield and Soul II Soul – very obscure!” Continue reading... Full Article Brazil holidays Cultural trips South America holidays Music Travel Top 10s Culture
travel 10 of the best novels set in Italy – that will take you there By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-05T05:30:28Z Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Umberto Eco’s medieval mysteries, EM Forster’s Tuscany … Italy comes alive through these great books • 10 of the best novels about FranceLong before Covid-19, there were always bad things in the press about Italy: corruption, mafia, bureaucracy. But, whenever I went, life seemed to work out even so. People may be poor but they still sit in the sun, drink and chat; music and culture are a birthright; the right seems in the ascendant but on the ground it feels blessed with far-seeing idealists – it has almost four times as much land under organic cultivation as the UK, for example. For now, my remedy to the withdrawal symptoms I feel is to visit via the written word. Many writers have set books in Italy – I was sorry to leave out Martin Amis’s The Pregnant Widow (Calabria), and Ali Smith’s How to be Both (Ferrara) – but here are my top 10 romanze italiane. Continue reading... Full Article Literary trips Top 10s Italy holidays Travel Europe holidays Books Culture
travel Fifty Shades of Sligo: Normal People poses a challenge for Irish tourism By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T13:31:19Z The travel industry has sifted through the BBC show’s many sex scenes to showcase shots of Ireland’s landscapePromoting Ireland as a tourism destination used to be straightforward – just showcase the bucolic landscape and put a slogan on the end – but that was before Normal People turned a chunk of the Atlantic coast into Fifty Shades of Sligo.The television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel features beautiful shots of Sligo’s beaches and mountains, plus Trinity College Dublin, but there is also sex. Lots of sex. Continue reading... Full Article Ireland Sally Rooney Books Europe Culture World news Television Television & radio
travel Moments in history quiz: where in the world By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T06:00:19Z You may be familiar with these iconic images, but where did the events take place?Where did this ship dock on 22 June 1948?FelixstoweLiverpoolSouthamptonTilburyWhere was this short-lived celebration?BerlinBudapestParisPragueWhere did these three famously meet?GenevaNurembergPotsdamYaltaPrime Minister Harold Wilson, with pipe and sunburnt legs, is on holiday where?AngleseyIsles of ScillyIsle of WightIsle of SkyeThis Pablo Picasso masterpiece depicts the carnage of the Spanish civil war in which region?AsturiasBasque CountryGaliciaCataloniaOne of the most famous fights in history took place where?KinshasaLas VegasManilaMexico CityThis didn't end well. Where did it all start?BelgradeSarajevoVersailleViennaThis is somewhere between Ibiza and the Norfolk Broads – but where exactly?BrixtonCamdenHackneySohoIt's a wrap! Where did this take place?BerlinMoscowParisStockholmGazza's tears made him the most famous person in the UK for a while, but where was this match played?MilanNaplesRomeTurinWhere are these matchstick men and women?BirminghamLiverpoolManchesterNewcastleFidel could always draw a crowd - where was this one?HavanaMoscowNew YorkRio de JaneiroWhere did the Arab spring begin?EgyptLibyaLebanonTunisia The barefoot runner, the nasty fall ... but in which Olympics did this controversial race take place?MoscowBarcelonaSeoulLos AngelesNelson Mandela was freed just over 30 years ago. Where was the jail he walked out of to greet cheering crowds?Paarl, near Cape TownRobben IslandSun City, south of JohannesburgPretoria CentralWhich English town did Malcolm X visit just nine days before he was assassinated? HalifaxNorthamptonOldhamSmethwick13 and above.Past master!9 and above.You're an old hand at this0 and above.Best stick to Where's Wally! 5 and above.You're history! Continue reading... Full Article Cultural trips Travel
travel ‘In lockdown, spring is unfolding before my eyes’ By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-09T06:00:48Z With no alternative but to explore the nature on their doorstep, three writers describe the joy of enforced slow travel It is a place I’d discovered before the virus: a left-hand bend in a narrow stream, a couple of steps off the footpath. There is nothing remarkable there, or not at first glance. There are breeze blocks in the stream bed and plastic bags deeply embedded in the roots of an alder tree. With a few variations, it could be anywhere in Britain: the neglected corner of a city park, the back of a private garden, behind a national park cafe. It’s just one of those spots that no one ever thinks to stop at and, if not for Covid-19, I would not have begun visiting daily, pausing for a few breaths before continuing. I saw the first snowdrops appear there, followed by primroses; then they were swamped by wild garlic and wood anemone. One morning a weasel shot out of a hole under a root and sprinted up the opposite bank. It was the first of several surprises. Continue reading... Full Article Wildlife holidays United Kingdom holidays Travel Wildlife Spring Environment
travel Rs.3,500 - Kolkata to Bengaluru 1 Jul on IndiGo found 0 days ago By www.ixigo.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:55:56 +0530 Rs.3,500 - Kolkata to Bengaluru 1 Jul on IndiGo found 0 days ago Full Article
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travel France will hike air fares to fight climate change By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:35:00 -0400 A new 'eco tax' will raise money for less polluting modes of transportation. Full Article Transportation
travel A hydrogen economy could be built around airships By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:30:10 -0400 It could move goods, transport hydrogen, reduce CO2 and water the lawn all at once. Full Article Transportation
travel 11 travel essentials that are always in my carry-on By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:00:00 -0400 These are the items that keep my bag light and my life easy. Full Article Living
travel Could you go flight-free for 2020? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:35:53 -0400 A British campaign is asking people to pledge not to fly for a year. Good luck trying that in North America. Full Article Transportation
travel Should there be a tax on short, cheap flights? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:37:52 -0400 It makes sense in Europe. Too bad North Americans have so few alternatives. Full Article Transportation
travel Frequent flyer programs should be abolished, report says By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:00:00 -0400 They incentivize air travel at a time when people should be flying less. Full Article Transportation
travel "Flight Shaming" is really reducing short-haul flights in Europe By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:03:21 -0500 The number of people flying between German cities has dropped 12 percent. Full Article Transportation
travel What's the true carbon footprint of flying? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:41:08 -0500 We usually just talk about the plane, but it is a lot bigger than that. Full Article Transportation