Posts tagged as Travel
How Bad Are New York's Airports?
A column that compares different aspects of New York City to cities elsewhere. For this installment, we asked Alexander Basek and Paul Brady to weigh in. Alexander is a co-founder of the travel planning service Fortnighter. Paul is an editor at Huffington Post Travel. They both could point out the differences between an Airbus 320 and a Boeing 737, but they won’t because you don’t care that much. READ MORE
Why The Return Trip Feels Shorter
Why does it seem to take longer to get there than it does to go back? "[P]eople are typically too optimistic about the initial trip, which then takes disappointingly long. So when they return, they're now anticipating it will take a long time. But compared to this expectation, the return trip does not seem as bad." Okay, I'll buy it. I also would have accepted "something something jet stream."
The Best Fried Chicken In The World, Galaxy, Universe
I have a recommendation as to where you should go for lunch: Charleston, South Carolina. Now, unless you're in Hanahan or Folly Beach or Mt. Pleasant, it could take you a long time to get there. So you might want to leave soon. But you really should go, because Charleston has some of the very best food you will ever eat anywhere. There is a place there called Jestine's Kitchen, which has become quite famous, and so often has a line of people waiting outside, and so also has lots of people who like to talk about food on the internet dismissing it as a "tourist trap" and inferior to other restaurants of its kind in the area, but you should go there if you like fried chicken, because I went there last Thursday, and it has the best fried chicken I have ever eaten in my life. READ MORE
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The Coming Plague and Scanners that Screen for Fevers
"Mass fever screening already exists." Uh oh. Soon The Machines may be telling you if you're well enough to travel: "Feverish subjects are instructed to 'please wait here for an attendant.'"
Convictourism: Prison Island Makes Prisonade
"It used to be thought of as a black spot on the family, but now it's become trendy to have a convict in the past." READ MORE
Solar-Powered Airplane? Uh, Yeah, I'm Gonna Stick With The Planet-Killing Ones For Now
A plane fueled only by solar power conducted a successful test run today in Switzerland, gliding at about 4000 feet for an hour and a half. The pilot was mostly pleased with the results, but did complain about having to pay to use the solar-powered toilet.
Being Dead Probably The Only Thing To Make Air Travel Tolerable These Days
"She told me that he was elderly and frail and also very tired, so I would have to lift him out of the taxi and into the wheelchair. I immediately felt unsure about the situation but I did my best to help by carefully lifting the man from his seat. To my horror his face fell sideways against mine – it was ice cold. I knew straight away that the man was dead but they reassured me that he always sleeps like that. So I placed the body into the wheelchair and pushed the man to the back of the easyJet queue." READ MORE
Cut-Rate Airlines Will Gouge You For Your Own Good
Low-fare carrier Spirit Airlines will start charging $45 for each piece of luggage passengers bring on the plane with them. The airline bills it as a way to "reduce the number of carry-on bags, which will improve inflight safety and efficiency by speeding up the boarding and deplaning process, all of which ultimately improve the overall customer experience." Meanwhile, budget Irish airline Ryanair is replacing all the toilets in its fleet with coin-operated models that will cost about a buck and half to use. Ryanair hopes that the move will "change passenger behaviour so that they use the bathroom before or after the flight. That will enable us to remove two out of three of the toilets and make way for at least six extra seats." The joys of air travel! Thank God we're all too poor to afford to fly anywhere.
Cuba's Hiatus: The Raul Interlude
The Plaza de la Revolución fills much the same role in Havana as the National Mall does in Washington. It lies in the shadow of the city's tallest monument, constructed to honor the memory of the country's great revolutionary hero. Huge crowds, sometimes topping a million people, have crammed onto the concrete square to partake in patriotic ceremonies, concerts, or speeches by Fidel Castro or the Pope. READ MORE
