{"id":361,"date":"2009-03-03T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-10-03T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T23:38:47","slug":"new-feature-in-the-news-links-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/new-feature-in-the-news-links-edition","title":{"rendered":"New Feature: In the News &#8211; Links Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new feature here at <strong>Explorations<\/strong>, every Tuesday we&#8217;ll provide you with quick hits of some of the most recent travel news, articles, anecdotes, tidbits and more that we think are blog-worthy.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let&#8217;s get to the good stuff&#8230; <strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Travel Everyman<\/strong> <strong>Rick Steves<\/strong> offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TRAVEL\/getaways\/02\/26\/new.in.france\/index.html?eref=rss_travel\" target=\"_blank\">some sage advice<\/a> for visitors to France this summer.\u00a0 The big takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a <strong>new smoking ban<\/strong> in bars, restaurants and cafes.<\/li>\n<li>Due to renovations, expect some <strong>closings<\/strong> and potential <strong>long lines<\/strong> at <strong>Versailles<\/strong> this summer.<\/li>\n<li>Although not strictly enforced, a <strong>&#8216;no-shorts&#8217; dress code<\/strong> has been instituted at <strong>Notre Dame Cathedra<\/strong>l.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rue Cler<\/strong> has become a tourist trap.\u00a0 Try <strong>Rue des Martyrs<\/strong> instead&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Wow.<\/strong> Apparently taking thriftiness to the max, European airline <strong>Ryanair<\/strong> is strongly considering charging for bathroom breaks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; As a counterpoint to my &#8216;<strong>Wow<\/strong>&#8216;, Harvard Business Publishing blogger Bill Taylor takes a hard stand (<em>sarcasm alert<\/em>) by claiming Ryanair&#8217;s bathroom plan &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvardbusiness.org\/taylor\/2009\/02\/low_costs_high_dudgeon_are_you.html\" target=\"_blank\">sort of makes sense<\/a>.&#8217;\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you be the judge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Foodie Gregory Dicum has <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/01\/travel\/01choice.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nice write-up<\/a> about the abundance of delicious vegetarian dishes available in Thailand.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shameless promotion alert:<\/strong> Explorica has a brand-new tour to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/VCT\" target=\"_self\">Thailand, Vietnam &amp; Cambodia<\/a>.\u00a0 And it looks pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week.\u00a0 But feel free to use the comments to let us know of any additional travel truffles you may have dug up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature here at Explorations, every Tuesday we&#8217;ll provide you with quick hits of some of the most recent travel news, articles, anecdotes, tidbits and more that we think are blog-worthy.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let&#8217;s get to the good stuff&#8230; &#8212; Travel Everyman Rick Steves offers some sage advice for visitors to France <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/new-feature-in-the-news-links-edition\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,41,43,42],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-france","tag-notre-dame","tag-thailand","tag-versailles","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}