Month: September 2018

Aboard the Amtrak Crescent (CNN) — Enthusiasm. It’s not terribly widespread among the traveling masses gearing up for the getting-there part of their journey. Yet it’s a little after 8 a.m. on a Saturday, and travelers gathered at the Atlanta Amtrak station are eager — excited even — about starting their trip. The people arriving
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Free money: that is the popular view of the European rules on delayed flights. A windfall of at least £225 awaits passengers whose airline delays them significantly, unless the carrier can cite “extraordinary circumstances” that excuse a payout. As travellers survey the turbulence that awaits aviation in the event of a no-deal Brexit, we can
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(CNN) — The planet’s most recognizable jetliner celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. The first Boeing 747 was rolled out in Seattle on September 30, 1968. Its maiden flight was in February 1969 and it entered service with the fondly remembered airline Pan American World Airways in January 1970. It’s been a passenger favorite ever
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Why go? The world’s only capital to border three countries (it also brushes Austria and Hungary), Bratislava is Slovakia’s principal city. And yet the bijou 18th-century centre crested by a Baroque castle, is conducive to strolling around on its compact network of cobbled streets. Fronted by the Danube, where regular river cruises stop by, and
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2018 — Designed by University of Richmond senior Olivia Pivirotto and her mother, Brenda, the SwigSafe plastic tumbler aims to prevent drink spiking and binge drinking.SwigSafe As women and men worldwide try to process accusations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh spent his teenaged years drugging and raping girls, with Christine Blasey Ford testifying about her
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(CNN) — Just when every coffee place in whole wide world was beginning to look like an identikit Williamsburg hipster joint, along comes something very different. YND239-20 is a quirky cafe that’s delighting visitors to Seoul, South Korea, thanks to its super cute cartoon decor. Stepping into YND239-20 feels like entering the black-and-white world of
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(CNN) — A long-lost warship has been discovered off the coast of China after an extensive hunt to track down relics from from a naval battle fought more than a century ago. An archeological team had been searching for several years before it stumbled across a golden wooden name plaque bearing the name Jingyuan, says
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