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  1. Betsy Whyte’s autobiography THE YELLOW ON THE BROOM – “a beautiful book, shining with honesty, a classic” – is a fascinating insight into the life & customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 1930s, & is available as an ebook from Birlinn

    2/3

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-yell

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #travellers #autobiography #womenwriters

  2. Although #Asian #food is readily available in #Munich most of these #restaurants and #eateries do not care about #sustainability, leave alone #organic ingredients. If you see apart from upmarket Japanese restaurants, #Thai kitchens show that a yummy affordable compromise is possible: organictraveller.de/organictra
    (note: this is good news for #train #travellers at #Pasing #trainstation)
    #organictraveller #travelguide

  3. Stranded travelers in Dubai wait out travel chaos

    Tens of thousands of travelers across the Middle East entered a third day of limbo as escalating conflict between the US, Israel and Iran disrupted flights worldwide and shut major airports, including Dubai — the world’s busiest international hub. #travellers #stranded #middleeastconflict #flights #grounded #airportsshut #traveldisruptions #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the…

    fllics.com/en/video/stranded-t

  4. Today at #Maynooth
    University, we mark #HumanRightsDay & present the John O'Connell Award to the late Séan Regan for championing #HumanRights.

    My book "THE UNHEARD 12 MILLION" shows the critical need to stand with & work in partnership with Roma and Traveller communities.

    Check out the book👇

    coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/

    #Travellers
    #RomaRights

  5. Have this album on repeat ATM - has a bunch of travelling songs and some great sounds.

    #Bowie #Lodger #MoveOn

    #JukeboxFridayNight #Travellers

    Somewhere, someone's calling me
    When the chips are down
    I'm just a travelling man
    Maybe it's just a trick of the mind, but
    Somewhere there's a morning sky
    Bluer than her eyes
    Somewhere there's an ocean
    Innocent and wild

    youtu.be/cbbUzfFTiQk

  6. #DrumpfAdmin announces it will enforce facial recognition scans of all #Canadians seeking to enter #USA at all #PointOfEntry #borders, and #airports whether entering or exiting.

    cbc.ca/news/business/u-s-photo

    #CBC report by Sophia Harris - all #canadian #tourists and other international #travellers are subject to #biometric scanning. Objectors have right to refuse until December 26th, after that point the new rule stands.

  7. This sub-site, contains the text and pictures from the period around the early 1970′s to the late 1990′s. The years in which my tribe developed the gatherings around the country that became the Free Festival Circuit. ’New Age Travellers’, assorted hippies, punks, urbanites , festival goers and general people then found themselves labelled as the ‘Peace Convoy’. Quite central to this life was the gathering for the summer solstice at Stonehenge. [some say Glastonbury as well]. The authorities watching some of these developments with some alarm, became increasingly belligerent and attacked these gathering with some violence. One of the more famous examples was the attack on the Peace Convoy by 1600 policemen from 5 police forces on the Wiltshire / Hampshire border. It became known as the Battle of the Beanfield and it will never ….. I say never be forgot by many of us. The following few years got increasingly unpleasent with the force and application of increasingly oppressive law … leading to the Public Order Act 1986.

    web.archive.org/web/2012050310

    #Travellers #PublicOrderAct1986 #CrinimalJusticeBill1994 #Stonehenge #PeaceConvoy #Beanfield #BatlleoftheBeanfield #UKPoliceState

  8. More Indians Are Borrowing To Travel, But Here’s What You Should Consider Before Taking A Travel Loan – Outlook Money

    More Indians Are Borrowing To Travel, But Here’s What You Should Consider Before Taking A Travel Loan  Outlook MoneyIndians…
    #NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #CA #Canada #debttoincomeratio #EMIs #holidayloans #Personalloans #SmallEMIs #Smallpersonalloans #Travellers #Travellingonloans #youngerborrowers
    newsbeep.com/ca/58413/

  9. More Indians Are Borrowing To Travel, But Here’s What You Should Consider Before Taking A Travel Loan – Outlook Money

    More Indians Are Borrowing To Travel, But Here’s What You Should Consider Before Taking A Travel Loan  Outlook MoneyTravel…
    #NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #debttoincomeratio #EMIs #holidayloans #PersonalLoans #SmallEMIs #Smallpersonalloans #travellers #Travellingonloans #UK #UnitedKingdom #youngerborrowers
    newsbeep.com/uk/56250/

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    A selection of pamphlets relating to Stonehenge, Solstice and the Free Festival Movement 1985-1992 from Donlon Books UK. They are for sale: instagram.com/donlonbooks?igsh

    #Travellers #90s #Nomadism

  11. "To walk through Bushwick in Brooklyn or Dalston in London, is to walk through a pop culture re-enactment museum, like Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, only with younger staff and artisanal coffee. Punk, new wave, rockabilly, goth, techno, industrial, hip-hop. Folkies, hippies, skaters, new romantics, teds, club kids, indie kids, b-boys, ska girls, skinheads, casuals, greasers, mods. Internet tech­nology has enabled full-spectrum access to archival images and sounds of the postwar era, allowing pop’s founding texts to be reprinted ad nauseam."

    frieze.com/article/what-happen

    #Travellers #90s #Nomadism

  12. bbc.com/news/articles/c8j1003z First Minister John Swinney has apologised for a state-sanctioned social experiment on Scotland's #Gypsy #Travellers.

    In what is known as the "#TinkerExperiments", which ran from the 1940s to 1980s, authorities aimed to "settle" travellers by forcing them to leave their lives on the road for permanent settlements.

  13. Some good news.

    "Today, a High Court Judge declared key provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Police Act 2022), which gave police the power to ban Gypsies and Travellers from an area for up to 12 months under sections 60C, 61 and 62A of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, as incompatible with Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights"
    #Gypsies #Travellers #HumanRights #UKPolitics

    gypsy-traveller.org/news/high-

  14. Kätzchen, Zigaretten und Gucci

    Die Amerikanerin Jamie Johnson hat sich der Fotografie über #Kinder in aller Welt verschrieben. Auf diesem Foto hielt sie drei Mädchen aus ihrem über eine Dekade andauernden Projekt über die Irish Traveller Children fest.
    „Normalerweise fotografiere ich nie jemanden, ohne ihn vorher kennenzulernen – außer dieses eine Mal … Auf einer meiner vielen Reisen nach Irland, wo ich an meinem Langzeitprojekt Growing up Travelling über das Leben der irischen #Travellers arbeitete, ging ich mit meiner Leica SL die Hauptstraße in einer kleinen Stadt entlang und sah diese drei Traveller-Mädchen mit ihrer Großmutter an der Bushaltestelle sitzen. Sie schauten mich genau so an wie auf diesem Foto. Da blieb ich stehen. Ihr freches Auftreten haute mich um. Ich sagte zur Großmutter: „Darf ich bitte ein Foto von diesen Mädchen machen?“ Sie antwortete: „Solange ich nicht mit drauf bin und du es mir auf Facebook schickst …“ Und das tat ich. Und danach begann über die nächsten sechs Jahre eine Freundschaft mit diesen drei kleinen Mädchen, die ich beim Aufwachsen begleitete. Übrigens: Weder die #Kätzchen noch die #Zigaretten oder #Gucci auf dem #Foto sind echt.“

    Ausstellung:

    The Travellers
    2. Februar 2024 bis 20. April 2024
    #Leica Galerie #Boston
    leicagalleryboston.com

    Via: lfi-online.de/de/stories/jamie #Eire #JamieJohnson #Photography #Fotografie

  15. My travels over the holidays took me to visit family in Edmonton Alberta and Monterey California. In doing so, I took a total of seven airline flights and I watched a lot of people wrestling with luggage.

    Image via PickPik.com

    Now that airlines charge about $35 (give or take) for a standard-sized checked suitcase, more people choose to use a smaller bag and put it in an overhead bin in the cabin. Some people try to push their luck and bring a bigger bag on board, but the gate agents make it very clear that those will not fit. I watched as an agent was quite snarky with one passenger and said words to the effect of, “You knew that was too big before you got here!”

    What bugs me about this whole process is that I am too short to put a bag in an overhead bin. On a good day I am 5′ 2″ and getting shorter, and I cannot reach to put a 25 lb bag in a small space above my head. I should add that I am also 74, and weightlifting has never been among my skill set. So, I consider the fee for checked baggage to be a tax on short old people. It feels discriminatory, but I can live with it, up to a point.

    Image via medium.com

    The point at which I feel cheated is when I get to the gate and people are encouraged to check their bags at the point of boarding, for free! Every single time, there are more bags than bin space, and every single time people happily agree to stow their luggage in the same airplane belly as my bag. I paid $35 for my piece of that belly, but they paid nothing. Now the fee has become a tax on short old people who plan ahead.

    Once, on a previous trip, I did try to bring my small-ish bag on board but could not lift it into the overhead bin. At the time, there were no big burly men around to help me, and the flight attendants were staying well clear of boarding passengers, so I asked a woman who was my seat neighbour to lend a hand. She was not pleased. Even though she seemed capable enough, she clearly resented being asked. When it was time to leave the plane, she made a point of scooting up the aisle ahead of me so that she wouldn’t be asked to help get the bag down. That was the one and only time I tried bringing a bag on board.

    Image via pxhere.com

    On one of my flights this trip I watched a woman struggle with the same dilemma, but her outcome was even worse than mine. She seemed to be about 5’0″ and of retirement age, and she was trying to lift quite a large bag into the overhead bin. At the point where she tried to tip the bottom of the bag up and over the lip of the bin she lost control of the balance and the bag fell.

    At the same time a mother with two children was finding their seats. She was holding a small child while a little girl about five years old went ahead of her. Just at the moment when the girl came alongside my seat, the older woman’s bag tipped over and landed on the girl’s head before it hit the floor. There was immediate uproar.

    Image via Flickr.com

    The little girl was crying loudly and her mother was furiously yelling at the older woman. I and my seat neighbours were all in shock and unable to move anywhere to help. Meanwhile the line of people boarding was stopped and flight attendants tried to find their way through the crowds from opposite ends of the plane to attend to the problem.

    Making a bad situation even worse, the embarrassed older woman smiled as she apologized to the mother and child. It may have been a nervous response or a cultural difference but that smile was not received well.

    Ultimately, one flight attendant and another passenger helped the woman put her bag into the bin, and the other flight attendant brought a bag of ice for the little girl to put on her head. I don’t know what happened to her after that, but I didn’t hear any crying.

    Having watched all that drama happen right next to me has made me rethink my grumpiness about paying to stow my bag. Thirty-five dollars now seems like a small price to pay for ease, comfort, and passenger harmony. I will never again try to put my carry-on into an overhead bin.

    https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2024/01/06/keep-calm-and-dont-carry-on/

    #airTravel #airlines #airport #flightAttendants #Flying #gateAgents #luggage #overheadBins #planes #shortPeople #suitcases #travel #travellers

  16. So a little #unsettling. Just discovered someone had broken the latches on the bathroom window & balcony door on our cabin, so they won’t lock. We’ve reported to management, & have temporarily fixed, but it is clear this was done on purpose, so posting this to #warn other #travellers to check that the locks work on all doors to your rooms & cabins when #travelling, & if they are not working report the problem and get it fixed right away.

    #TravelSafety #TravelSafely #SafeTravels #TravelWarning