This is a couple weeks old, but timeless. The Telegraph has a slideshow on 17 of the world’s weirdest festivals . Yes, it’s annoying to click through 17 times to pump up their page view numbers, but even if you only see the first one it’s worth it: the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain. (The photos for the rest of them are great though.)
Public figures in the UK got a shock when their £30 each flight on RyanAir got hit with a £870 bill for excess luggage . Ryanair likes people who don’t change clothes all weekend: you get charged £15 a kilo for anything over 15kgs.
Volcano boarding in Nicaragua gets an article in the New York TImes and an unbylined mention in the Telegraph . That Bigfoot Hostel/Green Pathway Tours guy knows how to score some press!
One Swiss town is fed up with naked hikers .
This shouldn’t be funny, but is, in a sad, pitiful kind of way. It’s HotelChatter’s 2009 Hotel WiFi Report . If they keep trying to charge for crappy service, for something that should be free, that only helps the wireless carriers sell a service that allows people to go around the hotels completely. Remember when people used to pay to use the hotel phone? Now it’s just an intercom to room service.
