A drunken Briton has celebrated receiving his inheritance by trying to give it away to strangers at a Spanish airport, government-run news agency EFE has reported.The unidentified man, 59 years-old and dressed like a tramp, laughed as he started handing out a pile of 52,000 euros ($72,380) in travellers’ cheques and notes at Palma airport on the holiday island of Majorca before police stopped him.
It is generally accepted that if you go on holiday, you will arrive back before your postcard makes it home.But one woman was left stunned when a postcard from a Greek island finally arrived – 22 years after it was sent.Wendy Bosworth, 64, from Wolverhampton, received the slightly damaged card from her niece in a sealed bag, the Express and Star newspaper said.It was posted by Joanne Bosworth while on holiday on the island of Nisyros in 1987.
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THREE Australians have the chance to win a three-day trip to Los Angeles, but there is a condition attached – they will have to tweet every minute of the holiday.Launched by V Australia, the “4320 LA” campaign challenges three Australian friends to use social networking site Twitter to tweet, between them, every minute of the 4320 minutes they are in Los Angeles.
AIRLINES have reported a surge in booking from Jackson fans flying to the US for his memorial.British Airways and Virgin reported a jump in bookings once details of Michael Jackson’s memorial service were announced.Flights from the UK to US destinations of San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles were packed with fans and VIPs, a Virgin spokesman said.
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A US tourist, a Scot and two Spanish nationals were injured yesterday during the first bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona in northern Spain, organisers said.None of the injured were gored by a bull but fell while running through the narrow, twisting cobbled streets of the old town of the city pursued by the bulls, a spokeswoman for the festival said.The two Spanish nationals were aged 21 and 31, she added. The ages of the Scot and the American were not given.
KOALAS could be kept in the basement of a tired shopping centre alongside tacky souvenirs in a “shameless” grab for tourists’ cash.Under plans for the nation’s first permanently enclosed koala exhibit, up to three koalas would be kept behind glass beneath the Three Sisters Plaza in The Blue Mountains, New South Wales, and brought out for “photo and petting opportunities”, reports The Daily Telegraph.A North Sydney property investment firm wants the endangered species to be a major drawcard to the world-heritage listed Blue Mountains, famous for its eco-tourism.Blue Mountains City Council, which banned circuses in 1992, will make a move to outlaw native wildlife being held anywhere but in zoos after unanimously rejecting the plan. But the fate of the proposal lies before the Land and Environment Court, which has reserved its decision until later this year.
RYANAIR has revealed it is in talks with US planemaker Boeing about adapting its aircraft so that some passengers could be placed in “vertical seating”.The low-cost carrier, which in recent months has suggested heavy passengers pay a “fat tax” and travellers pay to use its on-board toilets, said it wants to get more people onto its aircraft by ripping out traditional seating.Ryanair is in discussions with Boeing “in relation to adapt the aircraft to allow people to travel in vertical seating”, Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said.Passengers “wouldn’t be fully standing, they would have something like a stool to lean on or to sit on”, he said.
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THE operators of Spain’s most famous festival, the San Fermin Running of the Bulls, are concerned about the party pooping impact of economic woes.Rates on hotel rooms have fallen due to a lack of demand as big-spending tourists become harder to find.Some rooms are selling for as little as 90 euros ($157) a night, said Nacho Calvo of the Navarra Restaurant and Hotel Association.”Rates have come down a lot and the weakness of the dollar against the euro is taking its toll on tourism,” Mr Calvo told the Associated Press.
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IN an offer almost too good to be true, British travellers will soon be able to fly to Australia for less than the price of a guide book.In a take on the term £10 Pom, originally coined to describe British citizens who migrated to Australia after World War II, the scheme will allow Brits to travel Down Under for just STG10 ($20.42).The move to boost the tourism industry will see 150 Qantas tickets to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane or Adelaide available for anyone with a valid Working Holiday Visa.
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