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...eating a diet of ants, a German tourist lost in the Venezuelan jungle managed to stay alive until people could find him last Wednesday. He survived the wilds with only a penknife for six days...
...York aren?t always pretty. In 1994, the rapper Nas released a song titled "NY State of Mind" with lyrics that go "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death... I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of Mind." Not exactly a tourist slogan. The tradition of documenting New York in song continues in the 21st century. The Irish rock band U2 have a song on their newest album entitled "New York": "Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics/ Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew," Bono sings on the song, which was written long...
...brought new embassy travel warnings to my inbox. And every time a travel warning for Indonesia arrives, I hear a collective murmur from my multinational friends here, whose ranks include indigenous Balinese villagers increasingly dependent on tourism, Chinese-Balinese businesspeople and American and European expats working in the large tourist hotels. The murmur is always the same. "Tell them Bali is different?" they urge me. "Tell them Bali is safe, even happy...
...attracted a fair amount of attention. “My roommates tell me that people have come by when I’m not here and have asked to see the bed. It’s a bit of a tourist attraction, but it gets the job done,” Matchett says. But the bed is not the only feat of construction to grace Leverett B-34. The roommates decided to partition the common room to form a fourth bedroom. But again, this is no common partition; it is not attached in any way to the ceiling, floor...
...wonders of democracy. You've bought a lamp of Aphrodite with a clock mounted in her belly, and you've paid $8.99 for a slice of mousaka that tastes like the rubber Parthenon you picked up for the folks back home. What next? Get out, out of the tourist rat-runs and into Psirri and Votanikos. There lie the liveliest new quarters of old Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room workshops, barbershops, tobacconists and tanneries, has been revamped and gentrified, gracefully. Humble huts are now trendy ouzer...