10 Things We Learned In Travel This Week
(May 19, 2004)
1. Airline Forgets To Insure Airplanes
Thousands of vacationers were stranded at airports across Britain after budget airline easyJet forgot to insure half its fleet!
2. Irish Stew?
Two Irish men have been arrested after an easyJet air-stewardess was assaulted.
3. Trinket Treasures
Dutch tourist's souvenir Hindu statuettes will be sent back to Indonesia and put on show in a museum after they turned out to be valuable 13th century works of art.
4. Servers: Go Away!
First-class train passengers from London to Manchester, were expecting a meal washed down with free drink on their 2hr 45min journey. Instead they got nothing when crew locked themselves away from passengers.
5. Airline Passengers Booted Off Boeing
A group of 37 "unruly" passengers were chucked off a flight from Glasgow to Belfast.
6. Mid Flight Fight
A drunk airline passenger invited another drunk passenger to “step outside” for a fight — at 25,000 feet!
7. When in Rome, do as the Romans do... or at least did
Rome aims to take tourists back in time with Latin.
8. No Butts Allowed On Bondi Beach?
Smokers on Sydney's Manly beach have had sand kicked in their face by local councilors who have banned lighting up.
9. Vacation Is Cheaper With 'Adult' Child
British 'watchdog' group finds pricing irregularities for packaged single-parent vacations.
10. Motel Slip....
A man is accused of applying Vaseline to every surface in his room at a Motel Six near Binghamton, New York.
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