Archive for August, 2008


Rincari for airline tickets

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Rincari for airline tickets,Airplane, News,travel

Industry experts prevendono that there will be further increases in the price of air tickets. To improve their budgets in fact, many airlines not just the recent decline in the price of fuel and reduction of routes served.

And so the measures that seem more credible are the first to charge services free as the dispatch of baggage, the consumption of soft drinks, the choice of place on board but also cleaning the door magazines rather than the fee for passengers fats. The latter measure has already been adopted by Southwest Airlines that makes even pay a ticket additional to those passengers who, for their size, are unable to enter into a seat standard.

The hanging garden and the canyon of Namba Park in Osaka

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The hanging garden and the canyon of Namba Park in Osaka,Japan

Sentinel has taken over the Namba Parks from the room of his Hotel, Swissotel Nankai Namba, while he was in Osaka in Japan. The Namba is a shopping mall and office location designed by architect Jon Jerde, who designed the first was where the baseball stadium in the city.

In his plans the architect has tried to recreate the atmosphere of an urban park, including the development of a garden on the roofs of buildings, follows the undulating path and different heights. If the terraces are parks, vertical planes of the buildings forming the canyon, creating an artificial environment in the city centre.

Here in addition to shops and offices, there are many restaurants, ranging from kitchen to eastern Europe (including Italian) almost all concentrated at 6 th floor of the centre and also a small amphitheater that hosts live shows.

Cocaine in New York: a guide

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Cocaine in New York: a guide, New York ,Guide,News

Un’insolita view of the statue of liberty… for an unusual driving on New York that I found browsing some blogs: “consume cocaine in New York.” Penserete to classical initiative of some public body which advises how to avoid problems, where to get medical support in case of addiction is not… But none of this.

Initially published in March, reappeared on Gridskipper map of the places where cocaine is consumed in the big apple. There are fifteen posts, described with address and located on a map. The comments are explicit hotels with free consumption, even in a bath is said that some stars of the film have been seen local and pubs which are described as “friendly coke” or simply where people consume in the bathroom without being disturbed.

The fun part is that there are descriptions of the types of people who attend a place rather than others, so as to orient the best choice: groups of young school students, Division of cinema, music lovers and so forth. In short, a complete handbook, also open to suggestions from readers… The question arises spontaneously: but it was not illegal?

Controls at airports

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Controls at airports,Airplane, News,travel

Some travelers just can not distance itself from its technology, many will also lead the computer on vacation. And the checks are not tender, particularly in the U.S. and European airports. The procedures require removing the laptop from the care to do pass-ray. And so I discover that about one third of passengers carrying the computer and that every day lost 4,800 laptop. A beautiful figure especially considering that there are no statistics indicating how many of these are recovered.

Thinking that the controls are decidedly slowed when there is separate from the PC by the suitcase, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) American has launched a pilot project to solve the problem. Working with some producers of accessories, the objective is to introduce grants for computers compatible with the standard of safety required in order to avoid the need for passengers to separate the PC from the rest of baggage.

Strike of August at airports in London: expected chaos

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Strike of August at airports in London: expected chaos,Airplane, News, London,travel

The 24 hour strike planned for Monday, August 25 promises to create many problems for travellers. The first airports affected by the revolt of workers check in and baggage handling are Gatwick and Stansted. A second strike is scheduled for Friday August 29 and fear initiatives of other British airports. Ryanair says that it will accept only passengers with hand luggage if the strike were to be confirmed.

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