May 23, 2015

Chic Vienna hotel is ray of hope for asylees

With a European immigration crisis boiling up in many forms these days, focusing on mass migration by boat across the Mediterranean, there’s a different story playing out in Vienna, where a chic hotel is serving as a place for immigrants who came as asylum seekers.

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Gotta be a first: Elephant takes a selfie!

No, it’s not a joke. Christian Leblanc visited an elephant sanctuary in Thailand a couple of months ago, fed the elephants bananas, and found the elephant grabbing his Go-Pro camera, which was set on time lapse.  

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Cruise News: the biggest and the other biggest

There’s news this week about two “biggest” ships. One is the Allure of the Seas, biggest cruise liner afloat, and the other is a ship under construction, but so far without a name that will be the largest square-rigger sailing ship ever built. Royal…

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Wait! Wait! What Was THAT?

This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.

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Chic Vienna hotel is ray of hope for asylees

With a European immigration crisis boiling up in many forms these days, focusing on mass migration by boat across the Mediterranean, there’s a different story playing out in Vienna, where a chic hotel is serving as a place for immigrants who came as asylum seekers.

Read More

Cruise News: the biggest and the other biggest

There’s news this week about two “biggest” ships. One is the Allure of the Seas, biggest cruise liner afloat, and the other is a ship under construction, but so far without a name that will be the largest square-rigger sailing ship ever built. Royal…

Read More

Wait! Wait! What Was THAT?

This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.

Read More