10 Things We Learned In Travel This Week
(September 11, 2003)
1. First Crate To Texas
When you absolutely, positively have to be there overnight and are clinically insane.
2. Vacation In Iraq!
At first glance, Iraq may not seem like an ideal place for a holiday in the sun. But, one businessman sees it as a up and coming destination.
3. Airport Knife Scare
Two men carrying knives in their hand luggage were stopped from boarding a passenger plane in London.
4. Less Hairy Cabbies
Cyprus wants its taxi drivers to put away their gold medallions, cover up hairy belly buttons and ditch flashy rings to project a cleaner image among tourists.
5. Losthansa!
A German who lost a suitcase full of clothes after a holiday in 1979 is to get it back 24 years after he first reported it
missing.
6. Nose Finds Noses
Dutch airport customs officers, alerted by the stench coming from a suitcase, found up to 2,000 baboon noses believed to come from Nigeria and to be destined for traditional healing.
7. You're so vain, I bet you think this thong is about you, don't you, don't you!
Brazilian are vaniest in the world according to new study.
8. McNoodles?
McDonald's is suing a Singapore firm that offers MacNoodles.
9. City Is Flush Over Toilet
One Midwestern town holds ribbon cutting ceremony for toilet.
10. Little Mermaid Drowns
Denmark's national symbol, the Little Mermaid sculpture perched on a rock at a Copenhagen pier, was vandalized overnight when attackers tossed the bronze artwork in the water.
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