• Fruit shells or fruitcakes? A rum story about motorcycle helmets, from Reuters.
• They're used to driving in snow in America, so in this cold snap here it's no harm to look at their advice, from Buzzle.com.
• When they close the Eiffel Tower, you know it's cold in Paris, from the Herald Tribune.
• Awesome travel pics, taken by the Hubble Telescope.
• If you want some of the technicalities behind the new lane-changing warning systems, here's a technical piece from EE Times.
• Researchers in California are developing a way of using GPS-enabled smart phones to gather more-accurate and up-to-date traffic data, from Technology Review.
• Being cool in Iceland despite its economic woes, from the Herald Tribune.
• A nice story about traffic news dedication, from TriCities.Com.
• Human traffic lights in China, from the China Daily.
• Did you pack the divorce papers? Humour with some truth, from the Herald Tribune.
• Did you know that drivers in Europe spend a quarter of their journeys in traffic jams? From Reuters.
• As we get ready here for privately-operated speed cameras, here's a telling tale from Australia. From The Age.Com.
• If you get lost on the new by-pass, don't blame the sat-nav. From the Evening Herald.
• Well, at least Ryanair can't do this; as far as we know, they don't provide pillows and blankets anyhow. From the Wall Street Journal.
• Matt Gross is touring Europe on a budget; you can follow his adventures in the New York Times.
• Seems like they still haven't got their airline business super smooth in China, from Reuters.
• Here's some basic info on holidays in Malta, from Buzzle.Com
• An informative piece on Family Fun in Cape Town, from Buzzle.com
• An alternative to airport hotels, from Sleeping at Airports
• How long before Ryanair catches this one? From Yahoo Finance.
• A new twist on hitch-hiking, from the International Herald Tribune.
• Angkor Wat in Cambodia is a popular stop on the SE Asia backpack trail; here's how to get around, from Buzzle.Com
• Roads get half of road taxes, in the Evening Herald.
• 50 Great Things to do in America is a good start to a US trip plan in the Irish Independent.
• Going on a picnic is a travel of sorts: this piece in the International Herald Tribune makes it more interesting.
• Worried about paying for your own weight on planes? This Irish Independent piece should allay your worries.
• There's a nice piece on Ireland here from Dan Barry of the New York Times.• Ryanair knew what they were doing when they decided to drop seatback pockets from their new planes, from the Wall Street Journal.
• This sequence from Reuters shows the preparation that Volvo puts into a crash test of its cars.
• The laptop is taking over from the guitar on Greyhound, from The Sunday Times.
• Personal Rapid Transport, a future view in Metro Magazine.
• Cell phone boarding pass, from TheBostonChannel.
• Religious tourism is alive and well in Rome, as reported in the International Herald Tribune.
• I guess they haven't heard of Ryanair and Aer Lingus charges for every checked bag? From the New York Times.
• Smile ... your face may be travelling to America. This is an interesting thought from The Guardian.
• Worried about bringing the ashes of your dead dog home by air? These and other burning questions answered at the International Herald Tribune.
• Blind people are at risk from hybrid cars, according to this, from the Los Angeles Times.
• Here's a new site site that checks the fares on all European airlines to find you the cheapest.
• We wondered when this would happen, a proposal to fine pedestrians for using their cell phones while crossing the road, from the Chicago Sun-Times.
