SERIAL travellers will be all too familiar with nondescript hotels that blend seamlessly into one another. Cable TV, identikit toiletries that make your skin itch, bog standard - and usually substandard - tea and coffee making facilities, coupled with nausea-inducing patterned carpets and bedspreads.
For many people flying from Singapore to Sydney, the flight can take as little as seven hours or so. But not if you are Benjamin Netanyahu.
But not if you are Benjamin Netanyahu. In the Israeli prime minister's case, it can take more than 11 hours.
The Genghis Khan monument in Mongolia features the world's tallest equestrian statue. A lift takes visitors to the horse's head.
That would be a shame. While Otira has had many claims to fame over its wild hard-case history, at the moment it is fascinating because one person owns much of the town.
That would be a shame. While Otira has had many claims to fame over its wild hard-case history, at the moment it is fascinating because it has just owner.
A cat-crazy Canadian woman who tried to smuggle her pet into New Zealand in a handbag was immediately sent home after being caught at Auckland airport, officials said Thursday, calling her attempt "very stupid." Officials condemned the hapless bid to circumvent strict biosecurity laws after the woman arrived Wednesday on a 15-hour flight from Vancouver and declared only that she had dirty boots.
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