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Travel Quiz June 2025

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 04:08:36 +0000

🌍 Travel The Four Corners: Current Affairs & Destinations Quiz Are you up-to-date on travel news? Take our 5-question Travel Quiz, and see how you fare. The Quiz 1. 🌋 Which country recently reopened its famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa after temporary closure due to volcanic activity in the Reykjanes Peninsula? A) Iceland B) […]

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Rick Steves On the Hippie Trail

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:00:58 +0000

Renowned travel writer and guidebook publisher Rick Steves packed the house at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA, with his two-hour talk on On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer*. The event sold out weeks in advance, a testament to Steves’ enduring appeal. When my writer friend Marcy and […]

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Travel Quiz October 2024

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:04:03 +0000

Are you up-to-date on travel news? Take our 5-question Travel Quiz, and see how you fare.

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Rediscovering the Soul of Travel Writing & Photography

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:45:27 +0000

Insights from the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference

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Overtourism: Tourists Go Home!

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:15:50 +0000

How much would you pay for a selfie in front of an erupting Icelandic volcano? Do you enjoy navigating through crowded Roman passageways in Europe? What would you do if a resident squirted water from a toy gun at you while you relaxed in a Barcelona cafe? Unfortunately, we live in the Age of Overtourism, […]

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Stonehenge Sprayed Orange in Activist Attack

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:37:51 +0000

Two protestors with the British Just Stop Oil organization made headlines again this week when they used fire extinguishers to spray orange powder on England’s venerable Stonehenge monoliths. Fortunately, this recent attack did not cause lasting damage to Stonehenge. But British Indie rockstar Liam Gallagher said it best: “Don’t f**k with the stones man, they […]

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Rediscovering Saudi Arabia: A Journey Through Time

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:22:49 +0000

What a difference a few years can make in a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which opened its doors to tourism on September 19, 2019. NYT Article on Saudi Arabia The Saudi Arabia described by New York Times travel editor and photojournalist Stephen Hiltner in his excellent article Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through […]

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Say What? Crazy Travel News

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:56:49 +0000

Is the world getting crazier and crazier, or is it just me? Today, several odd travel news stories flashed across Travel The Four Corners’ Travel News Bulletins feed in Travel Resources, with one slightly more believable news item from ABC News reporting airfare costs are rising: Japanese town erects a black screen to prevent tourists […]

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Flying The Crowded Skies

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:38:48 +0000

To fully comprehend how crowded our skies are, click to open up the real-time map from Flightradar24 below. It will give you an idea of why our favorite destinations are so packed even now in the off-season. Instantly, you’ll track worldwide air traffic as little yellow airplanes move across the screen. These are all the […]

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Flying Large Dogs

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:26:50 +0000

Don’t underestimate the difficulty of flying large dogs. Consider yourself lucky if your dog is small enough to fit into an airline-approved pet carrier under your seat. Unfortunately, unless you have a service dog, canines over 20 lbs (9 kg) must go in the aircraft hold with checked luggage (a human traveling companion must be […]

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ETIAS Travel Authorization for US, UK, and AU Citizens: What You Need to Know

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:26:48 +0000

This article was updated March 16, 2025 Europe’s ETIAS Travel Restrictions were postponed until late 2026. When the regulation goes into effect, travelers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and 55 other countries that currently don’t need visas to visit France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and 26 different European countries will be required to […]

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GPS Spoofing: A Growing Threat to Aviation Safety

Julia@travelthefourcorners — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:26:47 +0000

Updated June 12, 2024 Many people have irrational fears 30,000 ft up in the friendly skies. Now, here’s a new worry: jamming and spoofing. Commercial airline pilots’ reliance on GPS navigation systems is being put to the test more than ever before. The war in Ukraine and heightened military alert in the Middle East are […]

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