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World Heritage taxi

And why not? The taxi has far, far greater claims than beautiful but culturally insignificant places like Úbeda. But would drivers stump up the bribes required by UNESCO officials?

Cameron to use whales to stop the violence?

Bonus: a rather old cetation/transportacean joke.

Gypsy boy giving guided tour of Can Tunis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwlODow8BV4 The rest of the TVE documentary is in the YouTube links. (Via Vidi)

Les pervertis de Santander

Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?

Paradise and town-planning

The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.

Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”

And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.

Beurettes with their backs against the wall in Aytré, Poitou-Charentes, CC by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/llansades/4029997524/'>Thierry Llansades</a>.

Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview

Here‘s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well…

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