Her name is Kate McWilliams, and at the age of just 26, she became the youngest airline pilot in the history of the aviation industry. After completing EasyJet’s command pilot program, she was promoted to Captain McWilliams this past Sunday. She joined the airline as a first officer at the age of 21 and became …
Over 20 million Americans travel overseas every year and that is just a huge volume of potential victims for the scam artists and con men and women out there. They just wait for you and, before you know it, you are scammed, robbed or worse. The one thing you need to remember is to always …
Baldwin Street, located in the city of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand, is known as the steepest street in the world. The street has a maximum gradient of 35%, which means for every 2.86 meters traveled horizontally, the elevation rises by 1 meter. Baldwin Street is so steep because of its location …
The cliches, it seems, are buzzing around everywhere. It seems that the latest buzz is that there is a new fancy hotel in England whose only guests are bees. It is, indeed, a miniature hotel that caters only to guests who happen to be bees. The design for the hotel comes from the Corinthia Hotel …
One of the most common experiences of flying on an airline today is placing your cell phone on “airplane mode” once you are settled into your seat. But, in reality, is having a cell phone turned on in a plane really causing interference with the overall flight control systems? Most people on a flight will …
Amsterdam is a museum lovers paradise. It has more museums than just about any other city on the planet. The variety is huge and there is a museum bound to entertain just about everyone. It also has such legendary attractions as the Van Gogh museum and Anne Frank’s house as well as many world class …
Some locales offer the imagination a touch of intrigue or glamour or the exotic. Many of the world’s rudest cities may, indeed, be feeding your imaginations with such delusions of the exotic. These world class cities have been voted, time and time again, by travelers as the rudest, crudest, most ill mannered cities on Earth. …
Everyone loves the movies and we all have our favorites. Have you ever wondered what happens to the sets after the film has been completed? And, what about those real life buildings and locations that are always there? Well, here are a few of the choicest movie sets from years gone by that are still …