Budget Travel goes a bit risque with their True Stories: Rated R photo gallery. I’d argue it’s more like PG-13, but maybe I’m a bit too jaded.
7 Wonders of the World in 70 Days for $7,000? That’s what Toronto-based Travel CUTS is promising. It’s not exactly budget travel but, given all the necessary flights and accommodations involved, it actually doesn’t seem like a half-bad deal, no?
What’s the world eating? A Time photo guide explores a week’s worth of food from families around the word. Compare this family in Chad with this family in North Carolina. Staggering. (Hat tip: RoadJunky)
The longest line you’ll ever see. Check out this video of the customs line at Heathrow Airport (Hat tip: Upgrade: Travel Better):
PickTheBrain.com has a fantastic piece on killing your TV for a weekend. You’ll be amazed at just how much time and productivity you sacrifice to The Box. (Hat tip: BNT)
Our Man questions going back to the beloved desinations you’ve visited and fallen in love with once before. Will every corner of the earth ultimately succumb to the crushing weight of global tourism?
World Hum sat down for an e-mail interview with Cullen Thomas – a man who spent three and half years in a Korean prison for buying a little (okay, a kilo) of hash. He chronicles his life on the inside in Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea’s Prisons. I haven’t read it, but it sounds pretty interesting.
The Sun Sentinel‘s Thomas Swick has a clever list of “don’ts” to heed while traveling the world. Tip #1: In South America, don’t tell people you’re from America. (They are, too.)
Protesters will never come up short in the creativity department. Thus, Backpackers.com points us to Running of the Nudes: These are the guys who are so passionate about their cause (abolishing bullfights) that every year on the day before Pamplona’s famous Running of the Bulls gets started (early July), they gather in the town to protest — in a rather unusual (and somewhat attention-grabbing) manner. Indeed.