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This Week’s Guest: Jessica Spiegel of the Boots N’ All Network. This Week’s Stories

Gaming the luggage system
Slave Village Opens up at National Park
BootsnAll – “How I Travel” series
Mail: Air Passengers Who Refuse A Full Body Scan To Be Barred From Flights
CNN: The $27,000 [...]

There was a lot of controversy around the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. It was not that people did not like the beauty of this mosque. The controversy was more about Sultan Ahmed himself. First, he had not won any great victories for Islam that would justify building such an opulent mosque. [...]

This trolley in Istanbul runs the length of Istiklal Caddesi (street) which is a pedestrian street in Beyoğlu. Beyoğlu is an area of the city just north of the Golden Horn which is where the old European Embassies were located and therefore one of the most European parts of the old city. Now it is [...]

You new this series of food encounters would have to get to this topic eventually. It was one thing to run into vendors in the marketplaces in Oaxaca selling bugs for food (crickets I think) and quite another one to be offered to share a dish of bugs, chilies and onions on a bed of [...]

Episode 207 – Travel to the Tyrol (Tirol) Region of Austria
This is a transcript of an episode of the Amateur Traveler focusing on traveling to the Tyrol region of Austria.

Travel to the Tyrol (Tirol) Region of Austria – Episode 207
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with special thanks to Cindy the Amateur Traveler intern [...]

Beignets themselves are not that strange a food. We certainly ate stranger things when we were in New Orleans like alligator paté and pizza fish. But the trip to the famous Cafe du Monde produced some of the better pictures. Beignets are basically a deep fried dough covered with powdered sugar. What caught my eye [...]

At the miner’s market, one can buy bottles of soda, thick cigarettes, tubes of crackers, 200-proof alcohol and dynamite, all from the same vendor. When tourists are led up to these stands, the Señora in charge happily assembles little packages of explosives, smokes and bottles and helpfully recommends a coca leaf seller to complete the [...]

I want to focus this week on strange encounters with food while traveling. Sometimes this will be encountering strange food but in today’s photo the food was normal but the encounter was not what I expected.
I went to Tanzania with a group of 10 people from my church and the main reason we went was [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Kim Mance of TBEX and Galavanting.

Couches in coach: Air New Zealand plans lie-flat seats – USATODAY.com
Sky Couch In Coach: Air New Zealand Designs Flip-Up Cushion To Make Bed – The Middle Seat Terminal – WSJ
Employees to Warm up Your Hotel Bed by [...]

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