Weekly travel quiz: 30 October

VivekW Lonely Planet author

Here are the answers to the quiz. How’d you do?
1. What tasty French grape celebrates the beginning of its wine season with a weeklong festival starting on November 18?
Nouveau Beaujolais
2. What Australian budget airline informed passengers in Tasmania that their flight would be delayed for three days?
Tiger Airways
3. What US city did two pilots accidentally…

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Huh? United loses ‘United Breaks Guitars’ guy’s bags!

VivekW Lonely Planet author

This has to take the cake.
Remember David Carroll, whose acoustic guitar was smashed by United Airlines’ luggage handlers? If you don’t, here’s the song he recorded, which went viral:

Well, turns out that United has yet again managed to get in David’s bad books. The airline lost David’s luggage — as he was en route to…

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76-Second Travel Show: “In Pittsburgh (Cancelled)”

Robert Reid Lonely Planet author

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has to be in the running for the most improved city of the past 15 years. Once known for its smoke-belching factories, the riverfront is alive with pedestrians, boaters with beers, a couple stadiums and nearby you can walk past street art and visit the Andy Warhol Museum. Well worth a day and…

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Flying on the cheap

Luke Savage Lonely Planet author

They say you get what you pay for, and nowhere does this annoying old truism seem more spot on than in the stripped-back world of discount airlines. Virtually everyone who has travelled on one of these cut-price people carriers has a tale of woe involving lost luggage, non-existent service or unscheduled cancellations.
Recently, passengers on a…

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76-Second Travel Show: “(A Safe) Halloween in Transylvania”

Robert Reid Lonely Planet author

EPISODE #004:
Warning some footage may be disturbing to some viewers.

Worn out of all this season’s horror, fear and fright? The 76-Second Travel Show is too, and offers a comforting TOP 3 SAFE & SECURE LIST to ensure a safe and secure Halloween season.
One CAN be had in Transylvania by the way. Here are four…

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Best of the week: 23 October

Reneé Bergere Lonely Planet author

Lonely Planet was abuzz with insider info this week. The more obscure, off-beat and unconventional the better. Want in on some of this week’s zaniest discoveries?

Think visitors to France’s capital would swap notes on the Eiffel Tower and pain au chocolat, right? Nah, this week readers were more interested in dipping under the well-worn streets of Paris – and not for a romantic catacomb…

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Goats in trees

Jenny Blake Lonely Planet author

Image by Gavin Oliver
Goats in trees? Don’t believe you, said my friend John! And why would he. They don’t have opposable thumbs, they’re not named tree-goats. Nevertheless as I rounded the corner on a bus trip in southern Morocco, that’s the sight that greeted me. A veritable flock of goats swaying in the breeze on…

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The infamous naked scan

Tom Hall Lonely Planet author

This week there’s been much comment in UK media on trials at Manchester Airport of a new type of x-ray security scanner. The good news: it does away with the need for fumbling around to remove coins from your pockets, and you no longer have to remove shoes and belts. As an additional bonus, there’s…

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76-Second Travel Show: “Window or Aisle?”

Robert Reid Lonely Planet author

EPISODE #003 (featuring 94 bonus seconds)

Paul Brady (@p_brady) offers us our first-ever viewer query: which do you prefer on planes, the window seat or aisle seat?
We’ve turned over the question to Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler plus some travel experts: Jim Benning (World Hum, @jimbenning) Pam Mandel (of Nerd’sEyeView), Stefanie Michaels (aka “AdventureGirl“),…

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Best of the week: 16 October

Reneé Bergere Lonely Planet author

It’s been the week for griping here at lonelyplanet.com. Seems everyone’s got something they need to get off their chest.
Apparently, you’re not fans of the hordes of tourists that flock to Thailand. Thorn Tree Forum member mangoholic2 got lots of feedback on how to avoid ‘backpacker fatigue’.

Talk then turned to the hatred of flying. Turbulence,…

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