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A rather clever map designed by property developer Constantine Valhouli points out the specific geography of New York City references in songs using Google technology. The list of songs is available on Wikipedia, but Constantine thought this wasn’t enough. So far the map includes over 200 songs, but people can submit more by emailing [email protected]. The interactive graphic allows users to explore and discover how certain areas of the city represent certain music styles or eras. It’s only a matter of time before this idea spreads to other cities…Violet Hill by Coldplay as a starting point?
Eight sites across the UK have been shortlisted for the first commercial spaceport outside of the United States. The potential sites are all in costal locations with six in Scotland, one in England and one in Wales. The spaceport will be used for scientific work as well as tourism, with an expected rise of space travel it is planned to open in 2018. Virgin Galactic is already offering tickets to space from spaceport America for $250,000 and the UK plans to capture 10% of the World’s space market by 2030.
Amazon is giving readers the chance to read on the go and download an unlimited amount of books to their kindles for just $9.99 a month. This allows travellers to avoid narrowing down their holiday reads to one book that can be squeezed into hand luggage. The ‘kindle unlimited‘ is being compared to Netflix which also has a set monthly rate and gives you access to many films and series. Kindle has announced plans for a library of over 600,000 titles for readers to enjoy – the perfect accessory for a relaxed beach holiday.
Now that The World Cup is over our friends over at Mashable have put together all 63 of the Google Doodles that were displayed on the search engines home page throughout the tournament.
Congrats on the win Germany!
London’s second board game cafe is to open in Hackney. Concept cafes are not new to the capital but with the rise of the ‘old fashioned’ hobby a new trend has evolved for beers and board games. The cafe aims to hold 500 games, opening in September its owner John Morgan believes its rise in popularity over the last few years is due to peoples need to switch off from cyber space. Wanting to have proper interactions again with people. Their only concern now is drinks getting spilt on the boards!
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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