8 signs you're from Sweden

You’ve tried snus and you like your candy salty. Oh heyyy, licorice!

from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/notebook/8-signs-born-raised-sweden/

A Foreigner’s Lesson on How to “Deal” with Foreigners

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Turner Wright's personal travels provide perspective on what it's like to be "dealt with" as a foreigner.

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Congress and the airline industry are in bed together, literally

from Elliott http://elliott.org/blog/congress-and-the-airline-industry-are-in-bed-together-literally/

Register For IHG Rewards Club Share Forever Promotion

Last Friday I wrote about how IHG would be announcing the details of their summer promotion this week.

While it took a bit longer than I was expecting, IHG's summer promotion is now live. The promotion is called "Share Forever," and it's valid for stays between May 1 and September 7, 2015.

The promotion is being offered in conjunction with Coca Cola (I get how Coke is all about "sharing," though I'm not sure I get the tie in for the purposes of the promotion).

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The Totalitarian Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam is home to many fine upscale art galleries and high-end restaurants. Its one of the most expensive places to live in the Netherlands, prestigious enough that Rembrandt lived out the last few years of his life here. But amidst the luxury boutiques and galleries, lies a small antique shop on the corner of Singel and Lijnbaanssteeg, overlooking the old Singel canal, the original moat which surrounded the old city. 

Inside the shop is a fairly eclectic collection of antiques, which veer towards the somewhat peculiar; Victorian anatomical models, vintage optometry equipment and taxidermy. In one of the cases is a small statue of Lenin and under it a small printed card: “Visit the Totalitarian Museum in the Basement”. 

Stepping through the swinging wooden doors separating the shop from the office at the back, and turning the corner, there is a narrow staircase leading to the basement. There you will find, lurking underneath the streets of Amsterdam, one of the largest private collections of artifacts collected from countries with the darkest of pasts: the secret Totalitarian Art Gallery.

Largely collected from the former Soviet Union, the low-ceilinged basement is filled with original propaganda paintings, toys, signs, flags, and medals. The Soviet propaganda program was one of the most widespread, brutal, and uncompromising of the 20th century. Strictly enforcing the Marxist-Leninist party line, it dwelt equally on the cult of personality of its leaders, the promotion of the heroic idealism of Communist workers, the suppression of the Western class system, and most chillingly, the manipulation of the young. The party line was omnipresent through posters, newspapers, the media, and the arts. Bludgeoned into the minds of the Soviet children through songs, marches and meetings, the ideal was to “make the young into a generation of Communists. Children, like soft wax, are very malleable and they should be moulded into good Communists.”

Other brutal regimes are also on display, from la Republic de Cuba to the most Orwellian of totalitarian societies, the Deutsche Demokratic Republik. From unopened packets of KOCKMOC cigarettes, named for the Soviet Kosmos satellites; to the RAKETA line of watches, named in honor of Yuri Gagarin; prestigious medals such as the Medal Materinstva I Stepini, awarded to all mothers bearing and raising six children; and the Za osvoenie nedr i razvitie neftegazovogo kompleksa Zapadnoj Sibiri medal, awarded to three years outstanding service to the Petrochemical Complex of Western Siberia.

The totalitarian regimes documented in the collection may have long gone, but the chilling message they propagandized, lives on in a tiny basement in Amsterdam.

from Atlas Obscura http://atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com/c/35387/f/665719/s/45988aa7/sc/3/l/0L0Satlasobscura0N0Cplaces0Cthe0Etotalitarian0Eart0Egallery/story01.htm

Hallstatt, Austria: So Pretty, China Made a Counterfeit Copy

I don’t think Jeff and Amanda knew what to make of me at first. Rand had met Jeff a…

from The Everywhereist http://www.everywhereist.com/hallstatt-austria-so-pretty-china-made-a-counterfeit-copy/

Uber / Capital One Partnership Offers Savings and Free Rides

Today Capital One announced a new strategic partnership with Uber that will offer cardholders an easy way to save on transportation costs. Effective immediately, the Capital One Quicksilver and Capital One QuicksilverOne cash rewards credit cards will offer cardholders 20% off Uber rides from now until April 30, 2016. If you haven’t already tried Uber, you’re in luck. For...

from The Points Guy http://thepointsguy.com/2015/04/uber-capital-one-partnership-offers-savings-and-free-rides/

Mission To Cuba (And The Future)

Cuba is still under a U.S. trade embargo, but executives traveling with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are looking toward a future where "there will be 30 or 40 million Americans vacationing in Cuba every year."

from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/what-new-york-gov-andrew-cuomos-cuba-trade-mission-means-us-travel-industry-1889475

13 addicting things about DC

DC: the only place in America where the Presidential motorcade is more of a traffic nuisance than a novelty.

from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/13-things-youll-addicted-living-dc/

Today Only: Discounted Las Vegas Hotel Packages With Daily Getaways

As I first posted about several weeks ago, Daily Getaways is back earlier than normal this year, and is a great opportunity to purchase hotel points and travel packages at a discount. It’s sponsored by the US Travel Association, and every weekday for five weeks they’re offering discounted travel packages. We’re now in the home stretch of Daily Getaways, as this is the last week of the 2015 promotion.

Today at 1PM we’re seeing some more Las Vegas hotel packages go on sale, which can potentially be worthwhile. Admittedly this is a bit more “niche” than outright purchasing hotel points which can be used for all kinds of things, but for the right person these can be a great value.

This is the third day over the past five weeks where Las Vegas hotel packages are on sale:

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Japan's maglev train sets world record: 603 kph

It's a bird -- It's a plane -- It's an insanely fast Japanese bullet train.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/asia/japan-maglev-train-world-record/index.html

Five Questions That Are Rarely Asked About Air Travel

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.... and warp my brain a little bit.

Continue reading Five Questions That Are Rarely Asked About Air Travel...

from View from the Wing http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/04/21/five-questions-that-are-rarely-asked-about-air-travel/

Maximizing Online Purchases with Airline Shopping Portals

One of the keys to award travel is making sure you maximize points and miles on every dollar you spend. In this post, TPG Senior Points & Miles Correspondent Nick Ewen explains an easy way to boost your earnings. Many of my friends wonder how I rack up hundreds of thousands of points and miles each year. While some...

from The Points Guy http://thepointsguy.com/2015/04/maximizing-online-purchases-with-airline-shopping-portals/

Time to mobilise (not panic!) as Google makes search changes

Another day, another Google algorithm change and this time it’s about mobile search and mobile friendliness. Many are calling it “mobilegeddon” or ...

from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/articles/google-mobile-search-mobile-friendliness/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=time-to-mobilise-not-panic-as-google-makes-search-changes

$50 Off Two Day Silvercar Rental Throughout 2015

I’ve written extensively about Silvercar, including about the rental experience at LAX. Silver is a fairly new rental car company with only one type of car in their fleet, the Audi A4.

Each A4 is equipped with free GPS, wifi, and satellite radio, and Silvercar has a fair fuel plan, whereby they’ll fill up your tank for the “market price” plus a $5 refueling fee.

For the month of April, Silvercar is offering $49 (plus taxes/fees) rentals using promotion code SILVER49. There are basically no strings attached, so if there's a car available at any of their locations, that's the base rate.

Well, at Frequent Traveler University in Dallas this past weekend, Silvercar shared yet another promotion code, which has the potential to be extremely useful. Through the end of the year, Silvercar is offering $50 off a two or more day rental. This is valid for both new and existing renters, and can't be combined with any other discount promotions. Simply use promotion code FTU50 to see the discount reflected.

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