There seems to have been a choice of two topics in the travel stories published this weekend: creepy, Halloween-themed tales, or serious newspapers (the WaPo, the NYT) trying a fresh take on the been-there, done-that subject of the Caribbean.

It doesn’t come as much of a shock, after the great foiled-terror-plot/checked-luggage crisis of two months ago, that August has earned the record for the greatest number of “mishandled� bags in four weeks.