Paris bridges language gap with new app
July 12, 2015
Paris is consistently the world’s most-visited city, and while it’s fairly easy for English-speakers to get what they need, it’s harder for speakers of many other languages.
Paris is consistently the world’s most-visited city, and while it’s fairly easy for English-speakers to get what they need, it’s harder for speakers of many other languages.
Princess Cruises is joining a growing trend, basing ships in China to tap into China’s fast-growing demand for cruises. Princess laid the keel yesterday for a new ship that will be based year-round in Shanghai. The ship, which will be a twin of…
From the Vienna University Botanical Garden
An amazing variety of sculpture around a large garden
Ryanair’s increasingly bitter fight with Danish unions over working conditions for employees at Copenhagen’s Ryanair base has now really gone south. Or, more precisely, southeast, Ryanair announced Saturday that its base in Copenhagen will close before the planned July 18th strike and move to Kaunus, Lithuania.
Barcelona, and its new mayor, have recently expressed worries about too many tourists, and about their behavior (see yesterday’s NewsLink below), but the crowd is not likely to stop anytime soon. And if all the famous sights were not enough, a…
I’ve been to Barcelona a couple of times in the past, and it never really made a great impression on me. Until now.
We’re used to using Google’s Street View tool to walk around cities all over the world, and even through locations such as airports and shopping malls, but now Google has opened a new frontier with its first vertical set, the iconic face of El Capitan…
Paris is consistently the world’s most-visited city, and while it’s fairly easy for English-speakers to get what they need, it’s harder for speakers of many other languages.
Princess Cruises is joining a growing trend, basing ships in China to tap into China’s fast-growing demand for cruises. Princess laid the keel yesterday for a new ship that will be based year-round in Shanghai. The ship, which will be a twin of…
Ryanair’s increasingly bitter fight with Danish unions over working conditions for employees at Copenhagen’s Ryanair base has now really gone south. Or, more precisely, southeast, Ryanair announced Saturday that its base in Copenhagen will close before the planned July 18th strike and move to Kaunus, Lithuania.
Barcelona, and its new mayor, have recently expressed worries about too many tourists, and about their behavior (see yesterday’s NewsLink below), but the crowd is not likely to stop anytime soon. And if all the famous sights were not enough, a…
I’ve been to Barcelona a couple of times in the past, and it never really made a great
We’re used to using Google’s Street View tool to walk around cities all over the world, and even through locations such as airports and shopping malls, but now Google has opened a new frontier with its first vertical set, the iconic face of El Capitan…