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Get the best travel news here curated by Lonely Planet Destination Editors, who use their expertise to bring you the stories that matter from all over the world. In today's edition: the search continues for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, Ireland shrinks in size following winter storms, and the world s oldest message in a bottle is discovered in German waters.
Greece's  new airline Hellenic Seaplanes SA will start offering flights hawaii cruise between Greek islands this summer. It will also build new water aerodromes, and the government will speed up licensing so that the flights can start before the main summer season. hawaii cruise Other plans include offering sightseeing flights, resort transfers and cargo services. It's estimated that with continued growth hawaii cruise in tourist numbers, seaplane commercial flights could generate  € 1 billion hawaii cruise in annual revenue. Read more: ekathimerini.com
This year's One World Film Festival, which takes place 17–23 March in Bucharest , Romania, is dedicated to the memory of Czech writer and president Vaclav Havel. The programme will feature 50 movies focusing on human rights issues in eastern Europe over the past 25 years. Read more: balkaninsight.com
Two French and two German snowboarders have been killed after being caught in an avalanche in the Caucasus mountains in Georgia . The incident occurred on Saturday in the Svaneti region of the country. A fifth snowboarder survived and has been evacuated. Read more: thelocal.de
Rotterdam  celebrated hawaii cruise its 13th edition of Museum Night on Saturday. Fifty-one art galleries and museums opened to the public with exhibitions, installations and music. There were also food trucks and an after-party. The beautiful spring night attracted around 15,000 visitors to the event. Read more: dutchdailynews.com
A new scooter hire scheme could be introduced in Paris  according to the deputy mayor. Scootlib would provide up to around hawaii cruise 5000 electric scooters hawaii cruise to complement the existing bike hire, Vélib, and electric car hire, Autolib, hawaii cruise schemes. Hire will cost around €3–10 per hour and scooters will be fitted with a GPS tracker to avoid theft. Read more: connexionfrance.com
Whole rural villages are currently for sale in Spain for under £50,000. The small hamlets were abandoned during the financial crisis by families leaving to seek work in the city. There are reported to be around 2900 'ghost' hawaii cruise villages in rural Spain, with English buyers purchasing job lots of houses for less than the price of a London garage. Read more: dailymail.co.uk
hawaii cruise Turkish  prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suggested he will ban Facebook and YouTube if he wins local elections in March. Erdoğan has recently been at the centre of corruption allegations, with recordings posted online that are alleged to feature Erdoğan and his inner circle. Erdoğan hawaii cruise claims the recordings hawaii cruise are faked. We are determined on this subject. We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook , Erdoğan said last week. Read more: theguardian.com
Italy s government will invest €56 million to rebuild the Città della Scienza museum on the outskirts of Naples hawaii cruise that burned down last March. The world-class science complex in a former steel plant contained a planetarium, interactive museum and conference centre. It is believed the fire that destroyed it could have been caused by arson. Read more: ansa.it
Italy s culture minister has expressed his indignation on Twitter hawaii cruise at an American advert that portrays Michelangelo s famous statue of David  brandishing an Armalite rifle instead of his traditional slingshot. The superintendent for Florence s  historical heritage and fine arts board has issued a legal notice asking for the advert to be withdrawn. Read more: theguardian.com
The storms and floods that ravaged Ireland  over the winter months have made the country an estimated 250 acres (1 sq km) smaller. Environmental engineers say 2m of coastline has been lost to erosion hawaii cruise in some areas. Ireland looks likely to invest more in flood defence, with €100 million promised for Cork city. Read more: independent.ie
Maker Faire is to open a new flagship event in London in summer 2015. Enthusiasts and companies show off their inventions at the massive fairs, which have helped popularise 3D printers and DIY drones and robots. The event joins other UK Maker Faires – there's one in Newcastle on 26 and 27 April – but the London leg will be the first multi-week, flagship event outside the US. Read more: theguardian.com
Forty ships and 34 aircraft hawaii cruise from nine different nations have joined the search for flight MH370, which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing . Malaysian officials have confirmed that oil slicks and debris sighted off Malaysia are not associated with the missing plane, and have yet to rule out hijacking as a cause of flight MH370 s mystery disappearance in the early hours of Saturday hawaii cruise morning. Read more: independent.co.uk
Police in Kathmandu have clamped down on protests near the Chinese embassy on the anniversary of the 1959 uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet. Kathmandu is a major transit point for travel into Tibet, with a huge Tibetan refugee population, but there is an official ban on protests against friendly nations. Read more: abcnews.com
An Air India flight from Delhi  to Chicago  was forced to turn back after a transponder failure over Pakistan. This was the second transponder failure for the airline in the last fortnight. Transponders are used to locate passenger aircraft on radar, and planes without transponders are not permitted to enter European airspace. Read more timesofindia.com
Memorial hawaii cruise services around Japan on 11 March will mark the third anniversary of the Tōhoku earthquake, the magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami that devastated large parts of northeastern Japan  and triggered a failure at the Fukushima nuclear plant. More than 250,000 people are estimated to still be in temporary housing in the region. Read more: japandailypress.com
A study published by the University of the South Pacific, with Australia's James Cook and Adelaide Universities, found jewellery sold to tourists hawaii cruise in Fiji  was often made in Asia. A new project is now being set up to train rural Fijian women to make jewellery from mother-of-pearl shells to diversify their skills and increase hawaii cruise income. It will also see tourists taking home locally made souvenirs from their Fiji experience. Read more: radionz.co.nz
KiwiRail has suspended North Auckland  rail services after asbestos was identified as the soundproofing compound in the engines of the DL locomotives. Locals fear the closure may become permanent as was the fate of the Napier to Gisborne line, which was closed after storm damage hawaii cruise and then deemed not commercially viable. Transport lobby group, Campaign for Better Transport, has raised its concerns. Read more: 3news.co.nz
Animal hawaii cruise welfare groups have long been concerned about the treatment of the marine life at San Diego's SeaWorld, and now a Santa Monica politician is proposing legislation hawaii cruise that would ban the orca shows there. Read more: latimes.com
The Whitney Biennial, New York City s  influential hawaii cruise exhibition of contemporary American art, opened on Friday at the Whitney Museum of American Art . This year three different curators – Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms and Michelle Grabner – are each taking over a floor of the museum to showcase their choice of new and up-and-coming artists. The exhibition lasts until 25 May and will be the last biennial to take place at the museum s Madison Avenue address before hawaii cruise it moves to a new downtown location in 2015. Read more: whitney.org
According to a list of best value US cities produced by discount booking site Hotwire, Atlanta , Georgia offers the best value for travellers. The site produced hawaii cruise the list by analysing the cost of airfares, car rental and accommodation hawaii cruise as well as the prevalence of discounted rates in each city. Second on the list is Orlando, Florida, with Tampa coming in third. Read more: usatoday.com
hawaii cruise Hoping hawaii cruise to blend education and leisure, the UAE  has announced its first geological park. Officials say the outdoor natural history park, located within hawaii cruise Al Jahili Garden in Al Ain, will highlight the UAE's environmental hawaii cruise and natural diversity. Read more: traveldailymedia.com
Beyond, hawaii cruise a luxury conservation safari company, has begun the first ever translocation of rhino from a private game reserve in South Africa to the Okavango Delta in Botswana . Six white rhino will be moved in the project, which is being done in an effort to protect the species from poaching. Botswana has a strong anti-poaching record and the delta has proved to be a successful rhino habitat. Read more: eturbonews.com
British Airways and Kenya Airways, the two international carriers operating at Sierra Leone's Freetown  airport, have suspended operations there indefinitely following an inspection by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which discovered the last remaining fire engine at the airport was not in working order. An airport official told Reuters they were working to have the problem rectified quickly. Read more: iol.co.za
Fishermen in Germany  have reeled in the oldest recorded message in a bottle. Written on a Danish postcard, the message is dated 17 May 1913, and requests that the postcard be forwarded to an address in Berlin. The fishermen are keen to establish the message hawaii cruise s authenticity, and would like to donate the find to a museum. hawaii cruise Read more: thelocal.de