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In journey information this week: love tales from holidays that began and led to Paris or London, aviation misadventures in Thailand and China, plus a have a look at why costs are rising as vacationer numbers enhance.
See extra, pay extra
Increasingly vacationer locations are introducing limits on guests and entrance charges to keep away from overcrowding and, you recognize, this additionally offers their coffers a bit of increase.
There's a brand new $13 cost for climbing Japan's well-known (and congested) Mount Fuji, following a 70% rise within the worth of vacationer rail passes in Japan. Nevertheless, the weak yen nonetheless makes this an excellent time for worldwide guests to take that bucket-list journey.
If you wish to see the ornate (and very well-liked) Plaza de España in Seville, Spain, you'll quickly have free admission. The Louvre artwork museum in Paris, residence of the Mona Lisa, has elevated ticket costs by nearly a 3rd, forward of this summer season's Paris Olympics.
It's not simply Europe and Asia, both. Walt Disney World Resort in Florida has already launched greater costs for park tickets for subsequent yr. A number of the lowest single-day, single-park ticket costs have elevated by $10 by 2025.
Love and loss in London and Paris
Again in 1984, an Italian teenager made a date with a boy she met on a airplane to London, however he didn't present up when she waited in Trafalgar Sq. the following day. Then her eyes fell on an American boy sitting among the many bronze lions whereas he learn “Romeo and Juliet.” The celebrities aligned: he was her future husband.
It was a unique story for a Londoner who in 2011 made her first journey to Paris together with her boyfriend. Her coronary heart broke beneath the Eiffel Tower, however a decade later, she put that behind her: it was time to jot down her personal ending.
Aviation incidents
An endangered parrot, marmoset monkey and pink panda are amongst 87 animals present in baggage at Bangkok airport this week. The alleged smugglers (and the captive creatures) had been heading to Mumbai.
And in China, a flight was delayed greater than 4 hours after a passenger threw cash into the engine. There have been comparable incidents of coin tossing, apparently for “good luck,” in China lately.
Lastly, there was a terrifying incident aboard a United Airways flight when a airplane's engine caught fireplace in mid-air. Terrified passengers watched from the home windows as flames erupted, forcing the airplane to show round and land in Houston.
The candy life
An Australian girl moved to Lazio, Italy, and purchased a palace for $130,000. She was searching for a brand new starting, as was her ex-husband. That is what occurred subsequent.
And an Arizona couple selected the Basilicata area of southern Italy for his or her new residence and new life once they had been fed up with the excessive price of residing in the US. CNN sat down with them to seek out out if the gamble was price it.
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scent you later
Some say it smells like garlic or sweaty ft. Others decide up notes of rotting flesh and a transportable rest room. Regardless of the precise scent of “corpse flower,” solely a fortunate few get to expertise it, as it will probably take over a decade to bloom and the flower lasts solely 24 to 48 hours.
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