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Improving airline food: Do you hunger for umami?

An interesting piece by Wall Street Journal columnist, Scott McCarthy, on what some airlines are doing to make their food taste better. Apparently there are significant taste perception differences at high altitude as opposed to eating at sea…

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Paris-Barcelona Now Linked by High-Speed Train

Paris to Barcelona has been a difficult trip by train, requiring at least one change and some slow trains. Now, the two cities have been linked by a direct French TGV train that makes the trip in 6h25m, challenging the airlines.

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Do you Like these Hotel Tipping Tips ?

American Hotel and Lodging Association has just published a suggested list of tipping guidelines for hotel staff.  Give it a look (bottom of page).  Are these realistic suggestions?  Do you routinely tip hotel staff?  Curious to…

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Buddy, Can You Spare 5.3 Million Dimes?

Apparently so! That’s how much loose change TSA scooped out of bins at scanning, left behind by travelers too frazzled or too hurried to pick it all up. And then there’s the question of what to do with it…find out HERE

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Do you Like these Hotel Tipping Tips ?

American Hotel and Lodging Association has just published a suggested list of tipping guidelines for hotel staff.  Give it a look (bottom of page).  Are these realistic suggestions?  Do you routinely tip hotel staff?  Curious to…

Read More

Buddy, Can You Spare 5.3 Million Dimes?

Apparently so! That’s how much loose change TSA scooped out of bins at scanning, left behind by travelers too frazzled or too hurried to pick it all up. And then there’s the question of what to do with it…find out HERE

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