Travel News:
- Skift wrote about 7 Steps to Creating the Hassle-Free Airline Experience which is based on a talk from Lufthansa’s Chief Strategy Officer at a TEDx event in Berlin.
- I always seem to hear about how beautiful the Maldives is. Yahoo has The Other Side of the Postcard: Photos Highlight Massive Island of Plastic Trash in the Maldives.
- CN Traveler has a slideshow with Australia’s Pink Lake and Other Oddly Colored Bodies of Water.
- Find out What A Healthy Snack Looks Like Around the World from The HuffPost.
- 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore in Alaska since they can’t find sea ice to rest on according to the Washington Post.
- A Fire Destroyed 3 Buildings at the Flight 93 National Memorial according to Yahoo.
- CNN Travel writes of Art and the Berlin Wall: 8 Places to Visit. For those of you that missed my post about Amazing Art at the Berlin Wall, check it out here.
- One more from CNN: 11 Urban Resorts That Will Make You Forget Your in the City.
- Check out USA Today’s 10Best: Quirky Attractions in the South
- An interesting article from the NY Times- In Venice, Navigating Like A Native.
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If you have any Travel News, Deals or Offers that you’d like to share, feel free to leave a comment or send an e-mail to michaelwtravels@gmail.com
