Archive for October, 2010
Striking French Workers Disrupt Flights & Trains
Striking French Workers Disrupt Flights & Trains Travelers to France have more to worry about than terror alerts as a series of nationwide strikes in protest of pension reform disrupted air and rail travel this Monday. Striking workers shut down at least half of the flights out of Paris-Orly Airport and a third of flights [...]
Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth Christening: Peter’s Report from Southampton, England
Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth Christening: Peter’s Report from Southampton, England If there are three things the British do very well, they are: 1. Royal weddings 2. Royal funerals 3. Ship namings Today was no exception. No one died, and no one got married. But the new Cunard ship, Queen Elizabeth, was named by her majesty the [...]
New England Travel Beyond Fall Foliage
New England Travel Beyond Fall Foliage Mention “New England” at this time of year and the conversation subject will likely turn to where to find great fall foliage. Yes, there are all the colors of the changing season but there are treasures of another sort. Meg Pier takes us out of the driver’s seat [...]
The 39 Steps Talkback
The 39 Steps Talkback World traveler, investigative journalist, radio host and … Broadway aficionado? Peter donned another hat as he moderated a special talkback session for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, The 39 Steps. The comedy thriller, adapted from a 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film and the original John Buchan novel, features only four actors [...]
Travel Tip: Exploring Culture Through Cuisine
Travel Tip: Exploring Culture Through Cuisine In most big cities, you don’t have to choose between a cultural experience and a culinary one. In fact, you can often use food to explore the history and culture of a destination. If you were to define Miami food, you could point to everything from Cuban to [...]
Hidden Gems: Jamaica, Part 1
Explore the hidden travel gems of Jamaica with Peter Greenberg in this video series. You’ll find there’s a lot more to this island nation than just all-inclusive resorts and white-sand beaches. For example, you’ve heard of the Jamaican bobsled team, right? Well get a load of the Jamaican dogsled team… So learn about the real [...]
Weekly International Travel News Roundup
Weekly International Travel News Roundup This week the travel world was brought to a halt by threats both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, but in both cases skeptics wondered if the dangers where just a hoax. In Europe, the threat of a possible terrorist attack prompted a continent-wide travel alert from the United States. However, many analysts [...]
UFO Shuts Down Chinese Airport
UFO Shuts Down Chinese Airport A UFO sighting shut down a Chinese airport for more than an hour and forced several planes to be rerouted, revealed a report released this week. According to the report, the airport at Baotou in Inner Mongolia was shut down last month when air traffic controllers at the Hohhot Air [...]
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