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Some Travel Oddities

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Travel Oddities Just for Fun

Here are some short little travel details that just seem odd to me. These are collected from friends, clients, agents and sometimes from articles on the World Wide Web.

The Pantheon is the largest building from ancient Rome that survives intact.
Where else but among travellers are bookings made on

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Testing Makes Travel Safer But,

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Do you feel safer in a train?

It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane’s windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.

The theory is that if the windshield doesn’t

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Take Off eh! Delays Air Canada

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When my son told me about a funny incident in the Vancouver airport, he added it’s probably not true. In checking online the first link was to the Toronto Star article “Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying” It’s a typically Canadian story.

What’s the funniest, strangest reason you have encountered for a runway take

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Humour - How to avoid a shark attack

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With tongue in cheek, my weird sense of humour and lack of social appropriateness, I tentatively reproduce a not so useful article on How To Avoid a Shark Attack.
The sarcasm is not very subtle. I apologize in advance if anyone is offended. It’s a joke, but not in the best of tastes or sensibilities.

Don’t

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