Friday Features
February 5, 2010 | Laura Carroll
I’ve booked private rooms in a couple hostels and found them to be far more accommodating than those shared, but I still don’t think I’d go as far as comparing these stark sleepers to “boutique hotels.”
In an interview this week with the Associated Press, Hostelworld.com’s spokeswoman Aisling White makes that very assertion, claiming that hostels are starting to expand the hosteling tradition to older travelers, as well as those with families.
Does anyone else smell a price increase?
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Those scoping out Spain as a study abroad destination should thank Carolyn Fanning. Her question on which city she should choose made it into In Transit’s Q&A, resulting in a brief but thorough rundown of a student’s best bet (spoiler: it’s Barcelona).
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For those of us still missing the speed-of-sound jet that we could never in a million years afford it, Jaunted has listed Five Supersonic Spots to See the Concorde. Europe nabbed two of them, while North America and Barbados have the remaining three.
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I could never quite understand why comprehension of my own language completely plummeted upon entering Liverpool. Fifteen at the time, I attributed it to England’s lax drinking policy. In fact, the city has an accent so unique, so baffling, that it dons it’s own name: Scouse. Annie Scott explained this to me via her article this week on Gadling, even including a sample.
