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Re: Are you a chatty seat-mate?
Originally Posted by Travel Rob: Meeting and talking to people is one of my favorite things about travel. Of course if the other person is busy or resting that's a different story. So Rob, I take it you're in the chatty column? Nothing wrong with that -- just curious.
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Re: Are you a chatty seat-mate?
Yes, I'd make up the 5% as being in the chatty-seatmate column!
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Re: Where in the World is TravelGumbo (#48)
Huuum, a sneaky one... I think I see a statue to Gengis Khan on the bottom of the statue column... But why would he be celebrated in a Euopean city? MAD is this geographic Europe or politically-defined Europe? I'm wondering if we are talking old Communist bloc here.... Is this any warmer? It's beautiful either way!
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Re: Where in the World is TravelGumbo (#48)
Originally Posted by Mac: Huuum, a sneaky one... I think I see a statue to Gengis Khan on the bottom of the statue column... But why would he be celebrated in a Euopean city? MAD is this geographic Europe or politically-defined Europe? I'm wondering if we are talking old Communist bloc here.... Is this any warmer? It's beautiful either way! Warmer with the Communist Bloc Comment. Statues are Freedom Fighters Not Gengis Khan It's at the end of a famous avenue that's also a world heritage...
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Re: Tips on Getting FF Seats.
That's good advice in her column! I've often had success calling back when I didn't get the "right" answer the first time helps...and the night shift often has the most experienced agents. Other useful tips, aside from being the most pleasant if sadly disappointed customer they've had all day: Plan early, book early. If you really want to fly to Paris in late July on the cheapest FF tickets, your best bet is late August: the airlines generally open seats 330 days ahead, and if you can be...
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Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula
For most travelers, the southwestern corner of Washington state is easy to bypass. It lies well over an hour’s drive from the busy I-5 Interstate Freeway. The broad mouth of the Columbia River limits access from the Oregon...
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Are airline alliances costing you $$$ on flights to Europe?
According to consumer advocate Chris Elliott, writing in Fortune, the answer is a big yes. He pinpoints the growth of the big three alliances (SkyTeam, OneWorld and Star), and the agreements among alliance members to coordinate services between the...
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Casa Batllo, Barcelona (Where Gumbo was #101)
Roderick Simpson and Dr.J have both correctly placed Gumbo as visiting Casa Batlló in Barcelona.Honorable mention goes to HistoryDigger for getting the city and architect. Designed by the premier Catalan...
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Where Gumbo was #233
Jonathan L reveals a museum whose architecture and its collections both qualify as modern art.
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Cefalu Cathedral, Sicily
Part of Sicily's Arab-Norman heritage, Cefalu's Cathedral is a showcase of art and a primer of the island's checkered history.
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Yellowstone: Upper Geyser Basin
PortMoresby begins her geothermal education with a walk around Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin.
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Another criticism faced by Uber results in the Delete Uber campaign
Uber, the world’s one of the largest online taxi-hailing networks has faced many criticisms, lawsuits, legal actions and protests from the both Government and its Uber drivers. At the end of January 2017, the campaign called Delete Uber has been trending in the social media and it results in the deletion of nearly two lakhs of Uber accounts. Though the Uber faced a lot of criticism from the people, it is trying to solve the issues in a different manner. Executive order of President Trump The...
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Aug. 29, 2017: Linz, Austria
Marilyn Jones continues her Austrian river journey with a stop in historic Linz.
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University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Where Gumbo Was (#208)
Jonathan L takes us to see this historic campus with its richly-decorated tower.
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Top 12 Attractions And Places to Visit in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, known as its historical and industrial identity, is also known as the 'heart of Gujarat'. The city is also known as Master Businessman in the world. Not only this, Gandhiji taught the lesson of Satyagraha and non-violence in this city. In this way, this city is a materialistic and self-sacrificial spirit city. Ahmedabad is full of sightseeing in terms of tourism. Tourists from all over India and abroad are visiting here. Ahmedabad is the economic capital of Gujarat. The city was...
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Jan. 11, 2020: The History Column, Koblenz, Germany
A monument that recounts the town's history also obscures some of it.
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Monumental Madrid
PHeymont examines some of the outward aspects of buildings that give Madrid its character.
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The Subterrean Majesty of Carlsbad Caverns National Park
(Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico) There’s no easy way to get to the Carlsbad Caverns — it’s a pretty remote destination, in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico just north of Texas, and...
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Greek debt deal will raise taxes on tourists
Demonstration last week in Syntagma square, calling for No vote in referendum on austerity pact. After agreement, new demonstrations call for rejecting the agreement. The recent deal between Greece and European finance authorities is not...
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Italy accused of 'fake' restoration in Roman Forum
The scene of the crime, so to speak: The Roman Forum with worksite Photo: Corriere della Sera Hot words are flying over use of "inappropriate" materials in a project to restore a 2000-year-old monument that's part of the Forum in...
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In Egypt: Luxor West Bank
PortMoresby visits 3 sites on the West Bank of the River Nile, opposite Luxor near the Valley of the Kings, the ancient Theban Necropolis.
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National Building Museum, Washington D.C. (Where Gumbo was #245)
Gumbo was visiting this fascinating museum in Washington D.C. George G shares great observations and photos of his visit.
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Wetting My Whistle: Berkeley Springs water tasting
Stephanie Kalina-Metzger shares her experience as a water judge (tasting, not swimming or diving) in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
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Astoria, Oregon
Jonathan L takes a trip to the Columbia River and the old cannery town of Astoria, Oregon
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Editor's Note: the (Top 10) (Very Best) News
TravelGumbo's newswriter takes an unhappy look at Top Tens and bucket lists, and especially Fancy Awards for nothing in particular
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Bergen: Norway's Not-So-Second City
Approaching Bergen by Air Bergen is a city of paradoxes. It's Norway's second-largest city, but it feels in many ways like a small town. It's the second-oldest city, but only in a few places does it seem older than 150 years or so. It's...
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Where is Gumbo? No, the question is "Where were you?"
Our long-running geography-culture-nature puzzle has been running for months now, sometimes weekly and sometimes twice a week, but always with the question "Where in the World is Gumbo?" Well, that started me on the next question: How much...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day. April 22, 2014: Alberta's Badlands
Driving 1.5 hours northeast from Calgary over the prairies, the landscape changes suddenly from rolling grassland and grain crops to dramatically eroded hilly layered sedimentary rock formations. These are Alberta's Badlands, a rough...
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Manhattan from the Other Shore
Manhattan's skyline is constantly, although the changes are not always instantly obvious, at least not so much as the change between the city's days as a port where the ships lined the shore and the growth of huge buildings clustered together in their...
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A Visit to the “Spine Garden:”Cactus in Arizona’s Sonora Desert
Even a non-artist like me can make you think of the desert with just a few squiggles of a felt-tip marker. See above? I did it already…and what does the trick is that everyone has seen the image forever, even though the cactus in the...
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La Dolce Vita (Part 1) Rome: Ruins of an Empire
(Interior of the Colosseum, revealing tunnels below the floor) One of the challenges in crafting these blog posts is deciding how to best convey my impressions of a travel destination. How to best discuss a city as fascinating and historic as...
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La Dolce Vita (Part 2) Rome: A City in Renaissance
(Overview of the city, viewed from "Rome from the Sky") I'd previously discussed the old Roman Ruins, which you can read about here. After the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 A.D., Rome entered a dark age that lasted a thousand years. ...
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We're Proud to Present...
Today is Gumbo's first birthday. We'll be celebrating again in a couple of months when we reach the first anniversary of our public opening, but one year ago today we posted our first blogs and our first Picture of the Day. As you can see at...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Nov. 17, 2014: Gaudi Bits
Nearly everyone is familiar with the iconic towers of Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, seen above in a night view with cranes. So, I thought I'd offer a few clipped views of what you see when you turn your eyes away from the high ground,...
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Snow in your backyard? Wanna host the Winter Olympics?
Now's the time to put in your bid, as city after city is backing away from hosting the 2022 events. Krakow had a 70% referendum vote against it; Munich, Davos, St. Moritz and Oslo have backed away... The games that used to be thought a prize...
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Is it time to regulate airplane seats? Chris Elliott thinks so!
In a column written for USA Today, travel consumer advocate Chris Elliott suggests that the only solution to the increasing air-rage incidents and fights over seat space is for the airlines to stop squeezing everyone closer and closer—and he's...
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More security for Europe's river cruises
In light of recent events, security is being tightened along the routes of Europe's river cruise ships.
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Rome: Ruins of an Empire
In the first of two parts, DrFumblefinger helps us to a sense of Rome as it was in its heyday
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Rome of the Renaissance
Following last week's visit to what we can see of Imperial Rome, DrFumblefinger explores Rome's second 'golden age'
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Luray Caverns, Virginia
George G visits a busy, and impressive, Luray Caverns and adds info on other attractions in the area.
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Inside Sagrada Familia
PHeymont returns to visit the interior of Barcelona's still-unfinished Sagrada Familia basilica. It's an eye-opener, for sure!
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Behind the Scenes: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Lester takes us on a preview tour of the museum that's been ninety years in the planning and will open for movie fans next year.
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Gibside, Tyne and Wear
Ian Cook shares fantastic images and the history of another memorable English estate in County Durham, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Charging your mobile devices on the go
Since you can keep them on longer during your flight, what you can do to be sure that your phone and other mobile device will be charged as long as you need them to be. Here is Wendy Perrin's column on this. We've also...
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Tips on Getting FF Seats.
I've always liked Wendy Perrin's column in Conde' Nast Traveler magazine. Often she discusses things from a point of view with a bigger budget than my own, but today's newsletter points us to her tips on how to help get the airline award seats...
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National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
Yes, that's a real diner, inside the museum lobby. A perfect start and finish for the museum that also includes play areas, areas to learn about play, and a toy store. Read on...
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Paris to reopen Bastille column after 30 years
The tall column that stands in the Place de la Bastille as a memorial to past revolutions will be re-opened to the public .
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Star Wars uses The Force on Airlines
This is the weekend that no one can escape news about Star Wars; it's all the media, social and otherwise—and TravelGumbo is no exception. Since we're a travel site, that's the focus of our round-up. Last month we reported on Air France's plan to premiere the new movie, The Force Awakens on Paris trans-Atlantic flights Thursday night, just as the film was opening in major cities. The special trip with the tiny-screen film included tickets to a giant-screen showing in Paris the next...
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Feb. 18, 2016: Istanbul's Basilica Cistern
Kingtikitaki shows us the largest remaining Byzantine cistern in Istanbul
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Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi (Where Gumbo was, #156)
The solution to this past week's travel puzzle is Gandhi Smriti -- the home in New Delhi where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.