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I had no idea these structures named “bothies” even existed! Probably one of the best pure travel related stories appearing here recently imho. In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote.
Rustic shelters called bothies — more than 100 of which are scattered throughout England, Wales and Scotland — are an indispensable, if little-known, element of British hill culture.
Full disclosure: I am addicted to coffee. Here is a very interesting and very surprising article: A Brief History of Coffee. How it all started and how it developed through the centuries to the great effects on the politics of coffee to today’s coffeehouses. Fascinating read!
I am a huge proponent of immigration. Ok, I am a little biased on this topic of course! I think we need more of it…and don’t get me started about building walls in an era where information can speed through in an instant to the other edge of this planet! Look at all the amazing companies built by immigrants! I could go on but let me share this article with you about the Global Opinions of Immigration may be in fact changing! Some amazing charts included! And some pretty awful conclusions about how they view immigrants in Greece, sad! Maybe I should have saved this one for a Best of Web post, oh well.
In 10 of the countries surveyed, majorities view immigrants as a strength rather than a burden. Among them are some of the largest migrant receiving countries in the world: the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia (each hosting more than 7 million immigrants in 2017). By contrast, majorities in five countries surveyed – Hungary, Greece, South Africa, Russia and Israel – see immigrants as a burden to their countries. With the exception of Russia, these countries each have fewer than 5 million immigrants.
Holy crap, I had no idea that Amazon hired 150 economists in the past few years, wow! Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists. And they are working on some amazing stuff too!
For your personal finance fix: How To Blow It. Cleverly titled…it is actually about doing stuff NOT to blow it!
Everything you ever wanted about The Prandtl-Glauert Singularity. Or jet plane shock collar. Or vapor cone if you prefer!
Did you know about the Immovable Ladder? Me neither! One of those bizarre religious realities still existing…
The Immovable Ladder is a wooden ladder located above the entrance, under the window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. Made of cedar wood, possibly from Lebanon, it was in place by 1728 and has remained in that location ever since the 1757 status quo of Holy Land sites was established, aside from being temporarily moved on two occasions. The ladder is referred to as “immovable” due to the agreement of the Status Quo that no cleric of the six ecumenical Christian orders[a] may move, rearrange, or alter any property without the consent of the other five orders. In 1964, Pope Paul VI described the ladder as a symbol of Christian division.
Fascinating! What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2019? And also fascinating how things changed from a year ago, wow! Check out the growth of Instagram and Netflix, it will shock you!
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For award related advice I read The Lazy Traveler: Did Delta Raise the Saver Business Class Award Levels to Europe (?), AND The Best Value About Every Delta Flash Sale Is in the Routes It DOESN’T Advertise. If you have any Delta Skymiles Bolivars (lol) you should probably read this.
Delta SkyMiles has gone a long way from a barely functional award chart allowing only round-trip redemptions with a stopover to a more modern award chart that allowed one way redemptions — to no award chart at all.
Don’t do the same mistake as me. I sent in new passport apps for me and my wife. My wife got hers but I did not. Several days later I get a letter telling me, please sit down, that my photos did not meet all specifications. Apparently my eyes were not fully open. Looking at my pics…well, if you need to be soooo specific about it, I guess that could be true. Whatever. I had to redo them with my eyes WIDE open this time looking like I am high on cocaine lol. I am sending them in today…I got mine at Walgreesn and I can not believe the photo clerk let me send in the first set. Of course I got the second set free! Advice: Make sure your eyes are wide open so the staffer doing your passport can “determine eye color”. There is a first for everything I guess.
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Good for the Pacific North… not really. Gold for me, not in the Pacific Northwest.
Well, you may not be in the Pacific North West @Josh, but where ever you are, there is Gold today!
@George, Another great posting! Man, this beats all the other blogs hands down!
It is nice to sleep in!
The good thing about Delta’s mark to market award pricing is the ease of strategic buying. Buy anytime and exchange if the price drops. Of course that requires sufficient status if the exchange is without Delta imposed cost.
Using flexperks for award tickets has nice properties.
unless you are trying to fly biz class overseas. Then using FlexPerks exposes the joke of the dollar price of a lie flat seat.
In that situation cash out ur flexperks and spend it on weed, booze and hookers in Amsterdam.
Nice group of articles this morning, Buzz. I did not know about the England bothies. We’ll be hiking up there in a while and I’ll have to check them out. There’s a similar, smaller set-up in the Colorado mountains-a group of huts and you can hike from one to another. Or ski, if you’re Superman.
How many credit card apps are there each minute?
Lazy Traveler does some very good work. 105,000 miles for a one way to Europe? Now that’s a real eye opener!
Now this is a post, keep up the very good work old timer!
Anyone from the flooded Midwest in here?
I can see already writers having posts ready how to travel for “free” on the new BA business class seat…looks like bloggers are all wet about it, yawn!
We all thought Pointchaser finally got a job she can focus and keep but…she just can’t say no to tricks she learned at the Frugal Travel Guy inserting affiliate links in each post, mega yawn!
Mommy Points has become such a fanatic cheerleader of all things TPG online. You bet she won’t post anything pissing off major advertisers to the site.
TravelCon=you can learn how to travel blog for only $499. Extra fee will teach you how to trick readers you can help them how to travel for free while you hammer them with sneaky cc affiliate links without ever warning them of the downsides—–>less conversions.
For the coffee lovers, The Monk of Mocha is a wonderful non fiction book about one man’s trials in bringing back coffee growing in Yemen.
That’s Monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers….4 George
Guys, in case you missed it, the Chase Sapphire Preferred card is now available for 60k points.
Available with my links now too.
Gary says is the best offer ever #wow
DoC will send more of his readers there #guaranteed