Travel headlines for the weekend of 2/17/07.

Travel news headlines for the weekend of August 6, 2006.

UNESCO is on a preservation spree this week, naming eight sites to its World Heritage list yesterday and an additional 10 today.

“I can’t say I’d recommend the food, the service, the accommodation or the location, but for a sobering and memorable experience, a night at Liepaja prison is hard to beat.”

Now that summer is hitting its stride in the Northern Hemisphere, which in NYC today means heat and humidity in the high 80’s (mmm-mmm!), cue lots and lots of stories about frosty, faraway and sometimes inaccessible places.

I recently discovered Blip.tv which has some of the best-shot vlogs I’ve seen (and a nice, simple interface, to boot). Case in point: girlwithamoviecamera’s vlog.

Judging by this video shot from a taxi zipping through Kathmandu, New York cabbies and Romans don’t have any monopoly on crazy driving.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 4/8/06.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 4/1/06

Since Newsweek’s latest issue is trumpeting the not-so-very-recent development of user-generated sites like flickr and MySpace, it seems like a good moment to take stock of what the .com’s second coming offers in terms of travel info.