What a great travel accessory. It’s tiny and portable and wherever you go in the world, you are bound to find bottles of water. Click here for more information.
Category Archives: Jet Set
Live in a blob…
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The blob is a Mobile Living Space that has a bathroom, mini-kitchen and room for a bed, it can also be converted into an office or a porch. It looks like an egg that had automatically opening ends. It was besigned by Belgian architecture company dmvA.
Beirut no longer hot spot, Hello Damascus!
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Last year The New York Times named Beirut the #1 place to go to in 2009. This year, the list is out and there is not trace of Beirut. It was replaced by Sri Lanka at the top spot (which we fully agree with as we visited Weligama, Kandy, Colombo and Taprobane Island and absolutely adored it). But, interestingly enough, Damascus, also a place of untapped touristic gold, has sprung up at #7. The article explains: “The next Marrakesh? Perhaps mindful of the way that renovations of historic riads have drawn upscale travelers to Marrakesh, Damascus hoteliers are trying to mine tourism gold in the rundown buildings of the Syrian capital’s Old City.”
Also, the most compelling entry at #9 is Antarctica. Now, that’d be fun. Let’s go!
The Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi
1In the world of architecture, everyone knows the UAE has everything big and mighty. Structures from a ski resort in the desert to the tallest building in the world. But, sometimes the important details are left out. For example, the entire city of Dubai does not have a single modern hotel. So, this hotel in Abu Dhabi comes as a break from the norm. It’s designed by New York-based company Asymptote. The hotel bridges the car racing track. It launched in November and is open now. Click here to book.
Air travel across the world
This image is really spectacular not only because it shows where the world is connected most, but also because it shows the parts of the world where no flights go. We knew Africa is not very well-connected with air flights, but we didn’t think it was that sparse.
We will be right back….
Sorry for the measly updates. We will be back very soon.
Hotel in a bag!
This could come in handy in a lot of places. Loving the design.
Travel: Dubai, UAE
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As you might have noticed, we have been a little slow on posting. But, that is not to remain. We are currently in Dubai enjoying the lush warm breeze with our best friend and others. We will get back to regular posting hours shortly. We hope this hasn’t become a drag. Still, we are maintaining record numbers. Thank you for you support, sexies.
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 290
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag
New terminal for JetBlue
“The TWA Flight Center or Trans World Flight Center,[2] opened in 1962 as the original terminal designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK).
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 258
“London is a bad habit one hates to lose.”
- Unattributed
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 257
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
- Ben Hecht
Airplane crash at Belarusian Air Show
iStraw: Drink safely when you travel…
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For people who like to travel to places that are not London-Paris-Rome or the like, this is the greatest little thing ever invented. It’s a travel straw for your drinks incase you feel the ice was made from contaminated water or for places where bottled water pass particles resting in the bottom (Hello Batam, Indonesia). It purifies while you sip. So it’s easy peasy. Anyway, click for the info.
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 240
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
- Aldous Huxley
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 225
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“There is never a wrong time to do the right thing”
-Maldivian proverb
I got to my 50th country
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If you know me, you know that one of my foremost hobbies is travel. Many kinds, really. It’s up there with music and having an all-out good time. And if the three happen at the same time, it’s the epitome of grandness for me.
A couple of years back I was dancing the night away in London and I happened to bump into someone whom I didn’t know at the time but we shared the same love to a website that we both were members of. That website is Virtual Tourist, a no-jokes online review for the serious tourist. His name was Umer (who would later become a dear friend to me). We both have an unabashed passion for travel and escapism. At the time, he had just passed his 50-country mark and was very proud of it (currently, he is working on getting to a 100.) We were both the same age and I was very intrigued to reach that number. I used to travel as much as I do, but with not as much fervor to visit new and unexplored places.
Astana is the next Dubai
1Borat really didn’t do Kazakhstan justice. Neither did he do gay culture justice with Bruno, but that’s another topic. The truth is all the -stans are really all burgeoning into a prosperous region for their fairly young independent history. Doha has always wanted to be the next Dubai, but Astana is more like it. They have many million-dollar projects going on as you can see in the video, that Astana, a small city of just under a million heads, is bound to be the next big metropolis, especially considering that that part of the world is in need of focal point of commerce and culture. Astana might be it.
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 217
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
- Lao Tzu
Must-Watch: “The Long Way 1.0″
Oh, how I long for a trip like this one sans bad food plus iPod. He went through China and made it. It’s heart warming and breaking at the same time. His brother joined him, that must’ve been nice, and he fill in and out of love. That’s a journey. Mentally, emotionally and physically. And it’s only 1.0. Imma keep my eyes pealed for v2. Yeah, I need to get out of Boston.
