Time for your daily dose of Gadlinks, Gadling’s look at all the crazy, mixed-up comings-and-goings in the world of travel…
- Over at Bootsnall, Chris Clark offers 7 reasons why the Gulf Coast’s “Redneck Riviera” beats St. Tropez. (This redneck couldn’t agree more.)
- The New York Times profiles Kiev’s eccentric mayor, Leonid Chernovetsky. (“When Parliament members said [the mayor] was acting bizarrely and needed a psychiatric exam, he went to a stadium where he jogged for the cameras before yanking off his shirt and doing pull-ups. He swam laps and flexed his muscles like Charles Atlas. Then he held a news conference – in his tiny bathing suit.”)
- Stranded on the tarmac for hours? USA Today explains your options. (Hint: You don’t have any.)
- Humorist David Sedaris takes on Australia in the most recent New Yorker. [HT: World Hum]
- Could this be the foreign aid paradigm of the future?