Welcome to our latest instalment of weekly travelinks, a collection of travel miscellany that we find interesting, amusing or just want to share - new blog posts, images, hotels, festivals, people, videos and other bits and bobs. And if you have anything you want to add, find out how to swing a travelink our way after these sumptuous little gems.
It's a rap
• David Holmes is the 40-year old flight attendant who raps in-flight safety announcements for Southwest Airlines, featuring the rhyme "If you want another kinda drink then just holla/alcoholic beverages will be four dollas". Brace yourself for the Ryanair spin-off, probably in the form of some kind of optional "rapped-safety-advice" supplement.
Bones not idle
• This Purple Slinky post on the Sedluc Ossuary in the Czech Republic popped into our orbit this week, and scared the bejesus out of us. Not content with boring, old-fashioned bricks, the creators of this chapel on the outskirts of Prague decided to construct large segments of their vault using over 40,000 human skeletons. Resourceful.
Going underground
• Industrial tourism: the recessionista's holiday fad of choice. A few weeks ago we went poking around in secret waterways running under Coventry and a disused hosiery works in Leicester, and now we're ready for the European tour, amply provided by In Your Pocket. And while we're at it, this is probably the coolest forum thread you've ever seen, featuring the mysterious heroes of 28dayslater.co.uk, faces obscured, exploring the forgotten corners of British industry.
Heinous snub
• When we first cast our eyes over BootsnAll's roundup of the best places to watch football around the world, we were furious. Whither Upton Park, Pride Park or the Hawthorns, we raged. But then we got over it, and decided that the list does a decent job of the big guns, and deserves props for squeezing in the roll-off-the-tongue Stadion Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade.
Rocking the Mekong
• Here's one to keep an eye on. American band Dengue Fever are taking their unique brand of surfer-hippy-funky-Cambodiany music to the birthplace of their lead singer, Chhom Nimol. Worth watching for the guitar player's beard alone.
Take a dive
• Americans all have a "strange attraction" to their local dive bar, says a contributor on sloshspot, who recently compiled a list of the best, the worst and the dirtiest dive bars in America. To what, exactly? "The strong, cheap drinks and smell of vomit bring us back night after night. Our feelings of simultaneous disgust and comfort are the common denominator in this filthy genre of establishments." Ah, we get it. Like independent versions of Wetherspoons, right?
Weekly travel porn
• From the ridiculous to the ridiculously indulgent. Our shameless fascination with online travel porn lead us to the latest offering on the coolhunter's travel tag. So we spent a few minutes imagining we were shooting the breeze at the Pretty Beach House in Sydney, breaking up the afternoon with a helicopter ride or two. And then we got crazy on the hypothetical extravagance of the whole thing and ended up pretending we lived in royal residences across the globe. It's shocking how the humble fall, isn't it?
How to submit a travelink
• Email benji.lanyado@guardian.co.uk or georgia.brown@guardian.co.uk with the word "Travelink" in the subject field.
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