This weekend we take a look at laser-guided travel pods in Heathrow, how shiny shirts confuse TSA scanners and Paris tests virtual gate agents. Go figure.
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France
We take a video tour of castles in France, lions in San Francisco and the Catacombs of Paris. These videos provide a different way of looking at San Francisco, a collection of spectacular castles and a tour through a Paris sight that seems to leave everyone I know, in awe.
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Karen Fawcett notes that French food has been honored with UNESCO’s cultural heritage designation. Are they going too far?
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When the French strike, they can cause travel chaos and do. Their motto — Strike first and then negotiate. There have been recent transportation stoppages in some parts of the country, while the French unions have been striking against raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. Here are tips from the front lines.
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Is this terrorist season? If so, will it impact your travel plans? Even though the State Department and other countries have issues travel advisories, will that motivate you to stay home? And if you do, are you necessarily safer?
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For those of you who don’t keep track of how strong (or weak) the U.S. dollar is against the euro (or other world currencies), there’s good news for Americans. The dollar is now under $1.20 to the euro.
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On this Memorial Day, Ned Levi discusses visiting three war memorials, The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, Pearl Harbor, and Omaha Beach, and gives thanks to our service men and women for their sacrifices.
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Ned Levi discusses the continuing problem of travel photographers being harassed, questioned, and sometimes detained, to stop them making photographs, by private security personnel, even when the pictures are being taken from public spaces. Ned suggests what you can do if it happens to you.
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EVERYONE, and I mean everyone, wears a scarf in Paris. It defies age and gender, hip and staid. In fact, I felt a little out of place without one. Luckily, there are plenty of stands where you can buy some very cheap, yet practical scarves so you can let your French flair fly.
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Lufthansa pilots just had a short strike. British Airways flight attendants are planning a strike. Now French (and possibly Greek) air controllers are on strike. You need a score card. Karen Fawcett reports from France where the French air traffic controllers are in day two of their action and air traffic is suffering from all of the above.
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