{"id":7550,"date":"2012-07-03T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2012-07-03T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T10:39:27","slug":"travel-photography-from-the-web-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/travel-photography-from-the-web-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Travel &#038; Photography from the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of things that I have been reading in the last one week..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only a week ago, I had presented a case for posting <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/hotel-reviews-india-travel.html\">hotel review<\/a> on this blog and had mentioned that you can&#8217;t always trust a tripadvisor review. Bloggers at Gadling seem to think the same. Dave Seminara has gone one step ahead to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2012\/06\/29\/how-to-spot-deceptive-hotel-websites-and-fraudulent-trip-advisor-r\/\">tips and exposing fake reviews<\/a> on the site. What&#8217;s worse, he thinks there is something unusual at tripadvisor, and sees one of his negative reviews\u00a0mysteriously\u00a0disappear after a few days!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>The website of the Aeolis Hotel looked superb, the price was right, and when I read a review of the place on Trip Advisor, which claimed the hotel offered &#8220;5 stars rooms,&#8221; I was sold&#8230; \u00a0But when I showed up at this hotel with my family a couple weeks ago and saw the pool (see photo above), I immediately knew we were in for some surprises&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I left a\u00a0negative review\u00a0for a truly awful Mexican restaurant in Big Fork, Montana. Trip Advisor published the review but days later it, and 3-4 other awful reviews from other diners were mysteriously all gone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>It is tough being an air hostess in USA. No one else but an air hostess would know better. Heather Poole, an air hostess and travel writer tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/131754\">ten reasons<\/a> why it can be tough; things that you would never have thought about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>4. WE CAN BE FIRED FOR BIZARRE REASONS.<\/h4>\n<p>I know one new hire who lost her job for wearing her uniform sweater tied around her waist. Another newbie got canned for pretending to be a full-fledged attendant so she could fly home for free. (Travel benefits don\u2019t kick in until we\u2019re off probation.) But the most surprising violation is flying while ill: If we call in sick, we aren\u2019t allowed to fly, even as a passenger on another airline. It\u2019s grounds for immediate dismissal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">The 2012 edition of &#8216;Where the hell is Matt&#8217; is fun. It seems to be getting better by the year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pwe-pA6TaZk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">The folks at flickr blog are always busy digging out interesting photographs. This time, they have found some incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.net\/en\/2012\/07\/02\/cliff-hanging-architecture\/\">cliff-hanging architecture<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>   <a title=\"Bhutan- Tigers Nest - Taktshang Monestery by sgluskoter, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgluskoter\/2944283280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3250\/2944283280_6d00326151_n.jpg\" alt=\"Bhutan- Tigers Nest - Taktshang Monestery\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>And some images of red window frames. You would not believe if I just said, window frames can be really interesting to photograph. Check them out yourself &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalgraffiti.com\/news-red-windows?image=1\">red windows<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of things that I have been reading in the last one week.. Only a week ago, I had presented a case for posting hotel review on this blog and had mentioned that you can&#8217;t always trust a tripadvisor review. Bloggers at Gadling seem to think the same. 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