Artists create elaborate rooms at the Au Vieux Panier Hotel in Marseille
Inside the Au Vieux Panier Hotel in Marseille, France there's a guest room that, if it doesn't have the world's most unusual design, certainly has the most schizophrenic. The room, referred to as The Panic Room, is half bone white — white bed sheets, white carpet, white walls, ...
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Armchair travel in Brazil
You might think of Google Street View as that feature of Google Maps that let's you look at ground level photographs of your childhood home, a new restaurant you are trying to locate or some other street-side destination. But for several years now, Google has been expanding Street ...
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Plus other thoughts on disappearing destinations
Spot Cool Stuff has a love of vintage travel guidebooks, the older the better. In one our finds, a guidebook to Afghanistan written in the late 1800s, the authors described the Buddha statues around of the town of Bamiyan as an over-crowded tourist trap. Contrast that with the ...
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TomTom is hiring families to explore the Seychelles
The Seychelles still has a few roads that haven't yet been fully mapped by the major GPS companies. The lush, tropical archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa is a choice destination for honeymoon couples, beach goers and scuba divers. But how are they going ...
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Southern Sudan verges on independence. What awaits travelers there?
Happy 1st birthday, South Sudan! Congratulations on making globes everywhere outdated. After more than two decades of strife and civil war between the mostly African and Christian southern part of Sudan and mostly Arab and Muslim north the two sides officially split. The divorce process started with a 2005 ...
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Swim in a pool in the Spree River
Swimming in Berlin's Spree River is not something most people will want to do†. But swimming in a pool that is in the Spree River—now that's cool! And that's exactly the experience the Badeschiff offers. The German word translates to "bathing ship," which is as good a short ...
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