Travel - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community http://www.instablogs.com/travel/ Travel - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif Instablogs Community http://www.instablogs.com/travel/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Thu, 15 May 2008 11:20:42 +0000 Glenwood Springs: Smug and soothing (Colorado-US) http://www.instablogs.com/entry/glenwood-springs-smug-and-soothing-colorado%e2%80%94us/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/glenwood-springs-smug-and-soothing-colorado%e2%80%94us/ Rajbir Deswal By: Rajbir Deswal & Chander Koumdi

Mired in mystery and miasma, coupled with a punch of the money minting miners’ exploits, the scenario shows up Glenwood Springs, in Colorado(US), appear as if it had for a long time been a favourite haunt of...

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 11:20:42 +0000 Glenwood SpringsColoradoRed MountainRoaring Fork Valley Man who distrubed Coleridge penning Kubla Khan in Porlock UK http://www.instablogs.com/entry/man-who-distrubed-kubla-khan-in-porlock-uk/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/man-who-distrubed-kubla-khan-in-porlock-uk/ Rajbir Deswal PORLOCK: SOMERSET SERENDIPITY
BY: RAJBIR DESWAL & CHANDER KOUMDI

We started from London early to avoid the morning rush. A couple of hours drive took us to the most scenic slopes in multiple hues. Initially we had planned to visit the three most...

]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 03:17:15 +0000 English countiesSouth EnglandPorlock UKSomerset Taylor ignored rebel protests http://www.instablogs.com/entry/taylor-ignored-rebel-protests/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/taylor-ignored-rebel-protests/ Craig Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor rejected complaints from Sierra Leone rebels about atrocities committed by his fighters, his ex-deputy has said.

The RUF rebels were notorious for mutilating civilians but their leader Foday Sankoh complained to...

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 13:16:24 +0000 Charles TaylorRUF rebelsFoday SankohLiberia rebel protests First time in 50 years: An ancient church emerges in Barcelona drought http://www.instablogs.com/entry/ancient-church-emerges-from-flooded-valley-for-first-time-in-50-years-in-most-striking-image-of-barcelona-drought/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/ancient-church-emerges-from-flooded-valley-for-first-time-in-50-years-in-most-striking-image-of-barcelona-drought/ Kenneth An ancient church has emerged from a flooded valley for the first time in 50 years as Spain’s worst drought in decades forced the city of Barcelona to begin shipping in drinking water.

For the majority of the past four decades, all that has been...

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 09:03:08 +0000 ancient church in Barciloa DesertSant Roma11th-century churchTravel Found in river the real bust of Julius Caesar http://www.instablogs.com/entry/found-in-river-the-real-bust-of-julius-caesar/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/found-in-river-the-real-bust-of-julius-caesar/ Olly The world has been introduced to the true face of Julius Caesar with the discovery in a river in southern France of a bust that was sculpted in the lifetime of the Roman leader.

The marble sculpture, found in the bed of the Rhône in the town of...

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 09:15:03 +0000 Julius Caesarface of Julius CaesarTravelFrance Molly:Real Heroine of The Titanic http://www.instablogs.com/entry/margaret-tobin-brown-real-heroine-of-the-titanic-visit-to-her-house-in-denver/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/margaret-tobin-brown-real-heroine-of-the-titanic-visit-to-her-house-in-denver/ Rajbir Deswal Margaret Tobin Brown: The Real Heroine of The Titanic
Rajbir Deswal & Chander Koumdi visit her house in Denver
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Margaret Tobin Brown and not Kate Vincelet of the James Camaroon eleven...

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 12:39:12 +0000 TitanicMolly BrownKate Winslet Uluru tourists return cursed souvenirs http://www.instablogs.com/entry/uluru-tourists-return-cursed-souvenirs/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/uluru-tourists-return-cursed-souvenirs/ Steve Hundreds of tourists who have taken home a chunk of Australia’s best-known landmark, the towering monolith called Uluru, have returned their illicit souvenirs, with some claiming to have been struck by bad luck as a result of the theft.

The national...

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 09:10:21 +0000 UlurusouvenirsAyers RockTravel 18 Crazy, Creepy and Kinky Hotel Rooms http://www.instablogs.com/entry/18-crazy-creepy-and-kinky-hotel-rooms/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/18-crazy-creepy-and-kinky-hotel-rooms/ Kevin Ever want to sleep suspended in mid-air, stay in a barn loft or live out some other strange fantasy you’re afraid to tell anyone? If you can think of it, chances are someone has created it. From the artistically painted to elaborately decorated, here...

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 19:27:05 +0000 HotelsRoomsPropeller IslandTravel How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag http://www.instablogs.com/entry/how-to-pack-everything-you-own-in-one-bag/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/how-to-pack-everything-you-own-in-one-bag/ Carmen With more and more airlines charging extra to check a second piece of baggage, packing light has become a necessity.

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 18:35:33 +0000 AirlinesBagTravelTravel Why Africa Has Awful Customers http://www.instablogs.com/entry/why-africa-has-awful-customers/ http://www.instablogs.com/entry/why-africa-has-awful-customers/ Richard So, why are the Kenyan roads bad?” an international journalist posed. The gentleman had travelled on our roads, those of Somalia, Rwanda, Congo and Uganda and he wanted to get some Africa bad roads 101 from me! Guess my answer? Our roads are bad because...

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