January 2011
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Date: January 27, 2011 2:20:39 PM GMT+2
Subject: you’re missing a lot
Cairo is moving… the feeling of power, pride and hope is priceless and more powerful than their bullets and gas bombs… i’m in the street everyday, tracing everything… being a part of this great movement to change our destiny… you would’ve had the same...
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Making light-based graffiti in Berlin’s U-Bahn. Pretty slick.
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(Sunrise in Iceland. Where else?)
Today’s favorite Tumblr is all about sunrises and we suspect sunsets. Some are not even taken during either moment, but nonetheless, there is pretty light within all the landscapes. All we know is that we get lost in these images photographed around the world…
Take a look at Eighteen Seconds Before Sunrise.
#FF. This just made...
jessicachu asked: I'm currently in the middle of booking my flight out from JFK to SAN for Coachella in April. I know this isn't glamorous travel (I'm only 22), but what are your basic tips to buying flight tickets? Example: are there any truths to "buying your tickets on a Tuesday in the wee hours of the night" ?
Any advice you can give would be helpful! Thanks in advance!
Any advice you can give would be helpful! Thanks in advance!
durgi-deactivated20110702 asked: Hi Travel Editor. I'd like your job. So mind if I ask..how you got started?
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“The sand is golden and fine, not pebbly or rocky as is often the case in Greece....”
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Excerpted from “Slow Boat to Bliss,” February 2011
tanagandhi asked: Thank you for this opportunity! If you would be so kind to entertain 2 questions:
1. As a SoCal resident, I'm always curious to see what others, outside of CA, feel about traveling through SoCal. What is considered "cool" to visit?
2. By far, what is the best place to travel as a vegetarian female?
1. As a SoCal resident, I'm always curious to see what others, outside of CA, feel about traveling through SoCal. What is considered "cool" to visit?
2. By far, what is the best place to travel as a vegetarian female?
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Assistant Interactive Editor Paul Brady here, filing from New York, where the weather today is positively arctic. But the frigid temps make for crystal clear views of Manhattan—and beyond—from the 43rd floor of the new Trump Soho hotel. I shot this short clip today during a tour of the hotel’s duplex penthouse, a 2,300-square-foot space with a wraparound outdoor terrace—that goes for...
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Our friend Victor Ozols wrote to share this video:
“In 2005 I interviewed oceanographer Jacques Piccard for Esquire, but the story was never published. When Piccard died in 2008 I published the interview transcript on my blog. A German film maker named Roman Wolter saw it and contacted me because he wanted to make a short film based on the story. …
Today is the 51st anniversary of...
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From our friends at Wired: Vincent Moon and Efterklang’s An Island will premiere in a reader’s home on January 31. To enter, tell them in 100 words or less in the comments section where you would hold the screening—and why it should be the location for An Island’s world premiere. Include a link to an image of the location as well. Moon and Efterklang will judge the entries and...
chels asked: I'm headed to Geneva, Switzerland for a work trip for a week. But I'll probably have a few moments to check stuff out. Any suggestions for must-sees?
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“But later I did begin to believe that maybe there was some sort of allegorical...”
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Jan Morris, as interviewed by Leo Lerman for The Paris Review, 1997.
We recommend: Sultan in Oman
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Travel, it makes you smarter →
youmightfindyourself:
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Jonah Lehrer on travel as a basic human desire that makes you smarter, more open-minded, and creative:
When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we’d suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilities … that never would have occurred to us if we’d stayed back on the farm....
climateadaptation asked: OK, I'll bite. I'm headed to Aalborg, Denmark, for one month. No car. Short money. Where to stay? What to do? What to wear?
Watchpaulbrady:
Rented a car yesterday to get off the Strip and drove along lovely Northshore Road, past Lake Mead. Stopped at one of the many picnic areas to check the view and shoot this short panorama.
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From our friends at Wired: a sneak peek at Born to Be Wild, a film documenting orphaned orangutans and elephants in their native settings. Opens April 8 on Imax screens.
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