Travel Weekly Blog

A Luxury Travel Blog has some nice fake namery in Leaning Tower of Pisa to lose its lean:

Announcing the $43 million project, Irma Joken of The Revival in Pisa’s Edifices (TRIPE) commented how delighted she was that her 4-year campaign to remove the 5.5 degree lean on the tower was finally becoming a reality

Travel Rants exhibits great imagination in the topical SilverJet and Ryanair fly in to Terminal 5 to help BA:

In return British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh will work for Ryanair at Dublin International airport as a baggage collector, and for SilverJet as in-flight staff polishing shoes and serving drinks

Ryanair played up to its reputation with Ryanair launches www.ryanbare.com:

Following the success of the ‘Girls of Ryanair’ charity calendar, www.ryanbare.com promises the hottest in-flight entertainment, including X-rated Ryanair calendars, screensavers and saucy pics

And Travel Weekly news editor Michelle Perrett riffed on environmental anxiety in Consumers could be rationed to one holiday a year:

MP Danny Loof for Greenwood who put forward the motion said: “Leisure travel is causing a raft of problems for the environment. People should just stay at home and enjoy themselves. Brits abroad are just binge-drinkers anyway."

Our sleb-spotting wing Celebs on Holiday throws down the wildly implausible HRH Queen Elizabeth II to open Ayia Napa nightclub - complete with a cheeky Rick Roll...

...and Mr and Mrs Smith continues the royal theme with Buckingham Palace set to become the ultimate British B&B - though the page title 'April fool template - change title' rather gave the game away.

The official residence of the British monarchy will open its doors in October this year to paying hotel guests. Mr & Mrs Smith, the London-based boutique-hotel specialists, will handle all bookings

I'll add more as I come across them. Gadling normally has a good one, so expect more when the US wakes up.

Nathan Midgley, web producer