Four years after the Taliban took power, influencers are traveling to Afghanistan in droves.
This week in travel: airlines sued for selling windowless "window seats," venomous sea slugs close down a beach in Spain, plus why US influencers are flocking to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. By Maureen O'Hare |
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Fines possible now for playing music with headphones on Irish Rail (Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock) |
"Bare beating": so amusing in name, so annoying in practice. We reported back in May on how the growing trend of playing music or video out loud on public transport was fuelling a backlash, with an opposition political party in the UK calling for the government to issue fines to offenders. A major European rail operator, Ireland's Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), has now warned its customers that its train inspectors will issue €100 fines for etiquette crimes such as playing music without earphones, vaping and putting bags or feet on seats, The Journal reported. The fines are based on existing by-laws, established in 1984, which, among other fine print, prohibit the use of "any gramophone (...) or portable wireless or television apparatus (...) to the annoyance of any other person." "Social norms appear to be clashing on the issue of audio playing out loud," Irish Rail Communications Manager Barry Kenny told The Journal. "It's not going to put your safety at risk, but it disturbs in what every other aspect might be a very enjoyable journey." |
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Millions of Delta and United passengers claim they didn't get the enjoyable journey they were hoping for, saying they paid extra money to sit in the airlines' window seats but found themselves seated next to a blank wall. Proposed class actions were filed separately against the two leading US airlines this week, seeking millions of dollars of damages for more than a million passengers at each carrier. Nara Lee, from South Korea, and Barry Collins, from the UK, had a much more felicitous travel experience. They are two of the 900 frequent flyer "millionaires" created by airline SAS when it switched airline alliance in late 2024. The pair revealed to CNN how they spent days in the sky to earn $10,000 worth of airline points. Kyle Olson, editor of travel products at our partners CNN Underscored, a product reviews and recommendations guide owned by CNN, used 7,000 credit card points to fly from London to San Francisco this summer. Here's how he did it. |
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🇦🇫 Influencers in Afghanistan |
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The US has warned its citizens not to travel to Afghanistan, but four years after the Taliban took power, influencers are traveling there in droves. CNN's Isobel Yeung met up in Kabul with Keith Sinclair, who's driving his car around the world. |
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Roasting meat on a stick or spit is likely among humans' most ancient cooking techniques, with a history going back as early as the 10th century BCE. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, we say. Here's how roasted meats went spinning all the way around the world. Once that meat's all juicy and tender, a fine place to put it is inside a sandwich. America's home to many iconic variations on bread + filling + bread, from New England's lobster roll to California's French dip. Here are 12 of the best sandwiches and where to eat them. What snack goes well with a sandwich, you ask? Why, potato chips, of course, or crisps, as they call them in Britain. They're somewhat of a national dish there, with exotic flavors inspired by everything from pickled onion to hedgehogs. |
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