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My film always goes trough the filmsafe scanners and I’ve had no problems even in China where they have x-ray machines at the train stations (due to people transporting fireworks illegally causing an explosion on a train). I shoot 100ASA, 200 or maybe 400 at night possibly but generally 100 slide film on the whole…

English cathedrals wow tourists Link: www.cnn.com

News on cnn.com today:- Kazakhstan plans to build a railway along the old silk route, linking Druzhba on the border with China’s Xingjian north-western region to Iran and Turkey Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/26/bt.silk.road.rail.reut/index.html And Virgin USA, Richard Branson’s planed budget airline, has short-listed San Francisco or New York as potential hubs. Link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/25/bt.virgin.us.move.reut/index.html Also the bbc.co.uk one…

I found this on the widescreen centre site, a list of projectors that take replicable lenses, looks promising… http://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/videolens.html

The luckiest travellers live near airports, or so it appears, obvious, maybe? http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/ADVISOR/05/21/lucky.cities/index.htm and on the environment front, news that costal communities would be better off being environmentally friendly and protecting the habitats of sea animals like sea turtles than by destroying their habitat. “World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says living turtles are worth…

News today that spam is on the increase, certainly as far as I can see, I seem to spend more time each day filtering it. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3746023.stm What do you think?

An interesting slant on the Ryanair-Charleroi ruling by the European Commission. Europe’s Phoney Ryanair Fiasco by Tibor R. Machan The busy body European Commission declared that the deal Ryanair struck with the Charleroi folks was illegal. … http://www.lewrockwell.com/machan/machan31.html