Driving architecture the right way! The most eye-catching car parks
10/2/2018, 1:54:26 PMMailOnline Travel has scoured the world for the most unique car parks, from underground to multi-storey structures. ✔ An objective during the design process was to create a building that didn't obstruct views of the campus, and there are two levels positioned under the ground At Volkswagen's manufacturing facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, two 16-storey silos are used as a temporary vertical parking lots before vehicles are delivered to customers
Hyperloop passenger capsule revealed
10/2/2018, 1:45:12 PMThe first full-size Hyperloop capsule designed to carry passengers at 1,000 kilometers per hour has been unveiled, offering a glimpse at what could be the future of travel. ✔ Billed as an airplane without wings, the aim of Hyperloop is to permanently disrupt how we travel long distances ✔ In just five years we have solved and improved upon all of the technology needed for Hyperloop with our new levitation system, vacuum pumps, batteries, and smart composites, CEO Dirk Ahlborn added ✔ This capsule will be a part of one of the most efficient transportation systems ever made
The best things to do in Seattle
10/2/2018, 3:03:20 PMSeattle, Washington, has a booming economy and is major travel draw. Here are some of the best things to do there -- from where to eat and shop to where to play and stay. ✔ The best things to do in Seattle: The city famous for Amazon and Starbucks is a great place to visit, whether for solos, couples, families or business travelers ✔ Glimpse the skyline from across sailboat-filled Lake Union at Gas Works Park, with its steampunk-leaning ruins of a former gasification plant
Traveling abroad with young kids? Tips for an easier trip
10/2/2018, 2:15:41 PMSome questioned my sanity: I was taking young children on a vacation abroad, mostly alone. It was just the three of us — my infant daughter, 6-year-old son and me. W ✔ We'd board a plane in Boston, fly to London and then take a train to Paris ✔ Among his tips for families new to international travel: Pack light, as in one or two sets of clothing per person ✔ Flying to Europe from Boston was Oliver's first long-haul flight
Speedy boarders, and nine more irritating types of traveller
10/2/2018, 2:35:00 PMWhich irritating type of tourist are you? ✔ From Speedy Boarders to Hotel Power Couples, Anna Hart runs the rule over 10 travel tribes ✔ Ah, the airport! Their favourite part of any holiday ✔ They’ve purchased Security FastTrack queue-jump passes, and easyJet Plus Speedy Boarding ✔ No expense spared when travelling by low-cost carrier! In the airport, Ross and Jan get to feel like foreign diplomats, except without the mounting concern over their own personal safety
Lord Howe Island: the unspoiled Australian paradise whose wildlife is being killed by plastic
10/2/2018, 1:09:19 PMundefined ✔ Lord Howe Island, a crescent-shaped speck cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean four hundred miles off the coast of Australia, has to date been the little-known preserve of intrepid travellers in search of unspoilt natural beauty ✔ The island has successfully retained an exotic air of mysteryCredit:istock Plastic pollution, which can be found in every ocean on Earth, has been an increasingly urgent global talking point since the broadcast of Blue Planet II in autumn 2017
There’s a secret train for VIP’s at Disneyland – here's how you can ride it
10/2/2018, 3:04:19 PMDISNEYLAND has many hidden gems to discover – but did you know it has a secret train that you can ride on? The Lilly Belle is a train car that was initially put into the park by Walt Disney, who wa… ✔ Disney Dose reported that it took until 2016 to fix the train and it now operates rarely – and not at all on crowded days or in hot weather - but if you’re at the park early enough then you might get the chance to ride in it ✔ Sun Online Travel previously revealed that there’s a secret disused airport at Disneyland - and its runway used to play When You Wish Upon A Star when planes took off from it
Six of the best US national trails – chosen by experts
10/2/2018, 2:00:56 PMTo mark today’s 50th anniversary of the US national trails system, six hikers and outdoor writers pick their favourite routes across the American wilderness ✔ When camping on the CDT, you can see the stars more vividly than in most places in the US (as long as forest fires aren’t smoking up the skies) ✔ All our journalism is independent and is in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative ✔ By clicking on an affiliate link, you accept that Skimlinks cookies will be set
Shop At Urban Outfitters And We'll Tell You Which European City You Belong In
10/2/2018, 2:38:36 PMAre you a Prague or Santorini kind of person? ✔ Here's a handy guide to help you start posting today! Looking for even more travel in your life ✔ Then you should join our Bring Me Community Facebook group to talk about it to your heart’s content! This post was created by a member of BuzzFeed Community, where anyone can post awesome lists and creations
WATCH: Bikini-clad woman shocked to spot this underneath her when on holiday
10/2/2018, 12:49:54 PMA VIRAL VIDEO has captured a young woman on holiday with a friend on camera while paddle-boarding, only to spot this creature underneath her. ✔ Viral video: A young woman was spotted paddle-boarding with some majestic creatures (Image: Instagram/ Saltynaplesmama) Viral video: The young woman was joined by two manatees underwater (Image: Instagram/ Saltynaplesmama) I would definitely risk my phone to get a video of a manatee swimming around me, totally worth it Imgur user Many were worried about the woman having her phone on her on such a flimsy board
London as you've never seen it: Weeds and relics on an East End kayak tour
10/2/2018, 3:26:44 PMundefined ✔ Forty miles northwest of here the river runs through the small Hertfordshire village of Wheathampstead where I grew up ✔ It is available to adults only and suitable for beginners with a basic level of fitness ✔ Tours run on certain dates in October and again from spring 2019
Cabin crew secrets: Passengers ‘ate and drank for entire flight’ during travel’s heyday
10/2/2018, 3:40:50 PMA FORMER British Airways flight attendant has revealed what life was like on the first ever transatlantic jet flight 60 years ago - and it mainly involved eating and drinking. ✔ Petit Fours followed and then there was afternoon tea ✔ They ate and drank from when they got on board until the time they got off ✔ The flight to the US would also set customers back a whopping £8,000 ✔ These activities ranged from having a relaxing bath, combing their hair and seeing to finger and toenails
Princess Diana ‘took Prince Charles to the cleaners’ in divorce settlement with a reported £17.5m
10/2/2018, 1:29:00 PMIT was one of the most high profile marriage break ups in the Royal Family’s history. But it turns out Princess Diana was given a lump sum of £17.5 MILLION in her divorce settlement with Prin… ✔ IT was one of the most high profile marriage break ups in the Royal Family's history ✔ During the messy settlement proceedings, Princess Diana was advised by her solicitor Anthony Julius to give up Her Royal Highness title in a bid for a better financial deal
Dream homes: Five tempting homes for sale in Aspen
10/2/2018, 12:25:23 PMDream homes: These are five tempting vacation homes for sale in Aspen. ✔ Douglas Elliman Real Estate Fullscreen This $4.1 million condo in Aspen has five bathrooms ✔ It’s not like someone sells a property and leaves and never comes back ✔ For a look at five tempting homes for sale in Aspen, take a look at the picture gallery above
Arizona ghost tours: Spooky haunts in Yuma, Jerome, Prescott, Tucson and Phoenix
10/2/2018, 1:21:35 PMFrom Jerome to Phoenix to Tombstone and beyond, Arizona is prime territory for ghost hunters. ✔ One of the more colorful is the Carleton House at Fort Huachuca, which is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a woman ✔ 928-782-1842, arizonahistoricalsociety.org/museum/sanguinetti-house-museum-gardens/ ✔ Long-time Wickenburg residents will share ghost stories and folk lore along the way
Don’t Mess With This ‘Nuclear Carrot’ Corvette
10/2/2018, 1:53:19 PMJeni Yeakel-Swanson learned from her father how to race and rebuild a 1964 Chevrolet Corvette. ✔ A piece of the front was missing, so he used parts he got from a junkyard ✔ Baime at Facebook.com/ajbaime More From My Ride The 1939 Hearse That Refuses to Die September 25, 2018 A Volkswagen Beetle’s Summer of ’69 September 18, 2018 A Musical Road Warrior’s ‘Dream’ Transportation September 11, 2018 Living the High-School Dream With a ’67 Camaro September 5, 2018 Part Harley-Davidson, Part ‘Spaceship’ August 28, 2018
Unruly flyer's in-flight pull-ups force flight to divert to Kansas City
10/2/2018, 3:38:50 PMAn unruly flyer allegedly became belligerent after doing pull-ups from the overhead storage bins, forcing an American Airlines flight to divert. ✔ Fellow passengers said the man appeared to be intoxicated when he started doing pull-ups from an overhead bin before becoming belligerent ✔ The flight attendant probably asked him three or four times to sit down and he refused to sit down and then he really got verbally abusive with her, starting calling her names, David Markoski said to WBZ
Hotels
10/2/2018, 3:26:38 PMThe best hotels in Chilean Patagonia, chosen by our expert, including luxury hotels, boutique hotels, budget hotels and Chile hotel deals. Read the reviews and book.
The Latest: Crew of stranded ferry working to fix engine
10/2/2018, 2:44:26 PMCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latest on stranded ferry in the Baltic Sea (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A spokesman for Russia's Federal Agency for Sea ✔ Alexei Kravchenko has told the Interfax news agency that the crew has asked to be taken to Lithuania ✔ No injuries have been reported and the company said that an evacuation wasn't immediately necessary ✔ The undated photo provided in the photo library on the website of DFDS shows the vessel Regina Seaways
Is Greve in Chianti really the world's most idyllic place?
10/2/2018, 3:13:03 PMWe had had a pretty difficult 12 months as a family, that’s for sure. ✔ We had had a pretty difficult 12 months as a family, that’s for sure ✔ One of those years in which God bowls you ceaseless googlies possibly to test the hypothesis that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ✔ We’d got through it OK but, rather than stronger, we were feeling bruised and desperately tired
Snow in forecast this week as Mammoth sets Nov. 8 ski season kickoff - Los Angeles Times
10/2/2018, 1:11:07 PMSnow is possible beginning Wednesday. The mountain will open to limited skiing Nov. 8. Single-day lift tickets are also now on sale, and a limited number of $50 lift tickets are available in advance. ✔ Single-day lift tickets are also now on sale and a limited number of $50 lift tickets are available in advance ✔ The amount of terrain available that day will depend on the weather leading up to it ✔ In any event, Nov. 8 will be full of festivities, including the traditional banner breakthrough at 8:30 a.m., a beer toast at 11 a.m., followed by live music
Review | Filipino cuisine enters the mainstream at the delicious Bistro 1521
10/2/2018, 1:17:45 PMTHE $20 DINER | The Ballston restaurant proves the food of the Philippines was multicultural before multicultural was cool. ✔ The only way I found out about the daily specials and street food was via Wakefield ✔ Nearest Metro: Ballston-MU, with a 0.3-mile walk to the restaurant ✔ Prices: $6 to $20 for appetizers, soups and salads ✔ $10 to $85 for noodle dishes, entrees and grill platters
North or South London – which is better?
10/2/2018, 1:59:54 PMIt is a debate as old as the city itself. ✔ It is like being asked to explain why Venice’s canals are superior to Birmingham’s ✔ Or why a ripe slice of French comté is better than a Cheesestring ✔ In terms of tourist attractions, The South has Shakespeare’s Globe, the London Eye, Borough Market, Greenwich and..
The Latest: Strong winds reported in area of stranded ferry
10/2/2018, 3:04:46 PMCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latest on stranded ferry in the Baltic Sea (all times local): 4:50 p.m. Finnish and Swedish weather forecasts for the so ✔ Lithuanian broadcaster LNK says it might take up to 20 hours for the ferry to reach its destination of Klaipeda, Lithuania's port city north of Kaliningrad ✔ There were no injuries and an evacuation wasn't immediately necessary ✔ The undated photo provided in the photo library on the website of DFDS shows the vessel Regina Seaways
Olivia Buckland reveals she's had a lump removed from her breast after waiting four years to pluck up the courage to have it checked out
10/2/2018, 3:14:37 PMLOVE Island export Olivia Buckland has revealed she had a lump in her breast removed just before her wedding to Alex Bowen after waiting four years to get it checked out. The 24-year-old explained … ✔ TLC 6 Alex and Olivia are off on their honeymoon Olivia and Alex finished as runners-up in the 2016 edition of Love Island, falling behind viewer favourites Nathan Massey and Cara De La Hoyde ✔ This is my husband and I can’t get over it, Olivia added
All the places Tupac Shakur has been 'seen' since murder
10/2/2018, 1:14:02 PMFrom New York, Boston and Los Angeles to Somalia and Cuba, there's been no shortage of 'sightings' ✔ Somalia 2018 In Febuary a man claimed to have seen Tupac, alongside well-known friend and founder of Outlawz hip-hop group – Yaki Kadafi, in Somalia ✔ I’ve seen Tupac and Kadafi way after their said deaths – in Somalia, Suldaan Mahdi said in an online post, according to the Daily Star ✔ You know he’s somewhere smoking a Cuban cigar on an island
Garrison Keillor's book festival appearance canceled after outrage over #MeToo accusations
10/2/2018, 1:16:41 PMAn appearance by former "A Prairie Home Companion" host Garrison Keillor has been canceled after an barrage of criticism. ✔ In this Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 photo, Garrison Keillor poses for a photo in Minneapolis ✔ It has come as a considerable shock that some have been so quick and careless in conflating his recent history with that of people like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein, Kisonak said
Ruth Langsford’s secret to looking good at 58 is a £1.29 face cream
10/2/2018, 12:13:06 PMTHIS Morning presenter Ruth Langsford has revealed that a bargain £1.29 moisturiser is her secret to looking good at 58. No stranger to early starts, mother-of-one Ruth gets up at 5am on Fridays to… ✔ Ruth added: I’m very lucky that I am able to afford facials when I want them ✔ Rex Features 0 Ruth carries a pot of Astral in her handbag for whenever her 'skin starts to feel taut and dry' If you moisturise your feet overnight – use a foot file, slather your feet in moisturiser, I use Astral, then put a pair of cotton socks on ✔ Plus these are the best mascaras for volume, length and curl ✔ And glitter bums get a spooky makeover for Halloween as beauty fans turn their bottoms into pumpkins
Melania Trump kicks off tour of Africa in Ghana amid questions and criticism
10/2/2018, 12:28:39 PMThough the first lady’s trip is seen as a gesture of goodwill, it also appears to critics of the Trump administration as out of step with her husband’s policies. ✔ (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) In the countries that the first lady plans to visit, there’s been little buzz about the trip, in part because details have been tightly held, except for some social-media muttering about Melania Trump coming to take selfies with children and animals
I’ve started vaping and it’s the most millennial – and mystifying – thing I’ve ever done | Ahir Shah
10/2/2018, 3:56:24 PMAhir Shah: As a bearded brown man, assembling a strange electronic gadget on the tube might not be the best thing for my long-term health ✔ My grandmother was around for a long time, happy and healthy for most of it, and loved for all of it ✔ Ahir Shah presents his Edinburgh Comedy award-nominated stand-up show Duffer at the Soho Theatre, London W1, 11-27 October and is on tour thereafter
A 10p antibiotic 'kills cells that cause breast cancer to return'
10/2/2018, 2:51:19 PMResearchers from the University of Pisa found that taking a low-dose of an antibiotic every day for just two weeks reduces the number of cells that can cause cancer to return by up to 66 per cent. ✔ Some people are diagnosed with 'carcinoma in situ', where no cancer cells have grown beyond the duct or lobule ✔ Most cases develop in women over the age of 50 but younger women are sometimes affected ✔ For more information visit breastcancercare.org.uk or www.cancerhelp.org.uk
How To Deal With All The Wires And Cords In Your Home
10/2/2018, 2:38:41 PMFinally address all the tangled eyesores, trip hazards, and nibbling kitten bait that help make your world go 'round. ✔ It helped with organization, but this Grid-It does a better job, making it easier to find the cord/charger I need ✔ * 37 Ways To Disguise The Ugliest Parts Of Your Home * 27 Pieces Of Double-Tasking Furniture That'll Make Your Home So Much Better * 24 Clever Tricks For Tackling Disgusting Bathroom Problems The best things at three price points The best things at three price points More BuzzFeed Reviews More BuzzFeed Reviews
Hunt’s EU-Soviet Union comparison & the dumbing down of contemporary political discourse
10/2/2018, 2:53:25 PMThe comparison that UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt made between the EU and a Soviet 'prison’ has been fiercely attacked. The episode shows us how superficial political debate has become today. ✔ The socialist countries, so long as they stayed loyal to the Kremlin militarily, and maintained the communist party’s monopoly of political power, were allowed considerable latitude to follow their own economic paths ✔ Follow Neil Clark @NeilClark66 The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT
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