Going mobile: Travel’s eventual high-tech future
By Peter Myers LONDON | Fri Feb 3, 2012 12:50pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – Welcome to the airport terminal of the future. There are self-service bag drops but no check-in desks. Your passage is seamless, punctuated behind the scenes only by discrete Near Field Communication (NFC) sensors. Occasionally you stop to scan your NFC-enabled smartphone [...]
Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Dickensian London
By Philip Baillie LONDON | Fri Feb 3, 2012 12:34pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – London in the 21st century is not all that different from the heaving Victorian metropolis forever preserved in the novels of English writer Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday is next week. Fans of Dickens can still walk the same streets of [...]
Atlantic City, fallen on hard times, to get facelift
By Dave Warner ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey | Thu Feb 2, 2012 10:16am EST ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) – Atlantic City, the once-thriving gambling capital of the east coast recently fallen on hard times, will get a facelift from a plan approved by a special authority including an overhaul of its famed boardwalk and [...]
Jobless Roma dig coal at mine dump in icy Hungary winter
By Marton Dunai FARKASLYUK, Hungary | Thu Feb 2, 2012 11:52am EST FARKASLYUK, Hungary (Reuters) – For 20 years, Jozsef Bari used to drive his bulldozer out onto the spoil bank every day, leveling and smoothing the spoil from a nearby coal mine in this remote northeast corner of Hungary. On Thursday he went there [...]
Wanted: Retirees to live in Ecuador for a month free
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK | Wed Feb 1, 2012 4:17pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Interested in adventure and exploring new places? An international magazine is looking for volunteers to spend a month in Cuenca, Ecuador to test its potential as a retirement destination. Applicants must be near retirement age, from the United States [...]