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Norway’s World Cup star Erling Haaland’s yacht becomes a viral tourist attraction

Norway’s World Cup star Erling Haaland’s yacht becomes a viral tourist attraction

Norway’s soccer sensation Erling Haaland can’t seem to escape screaming fans, even while out at sea in Sicily. In a new video uploaded to his YouTube channel, the Norwegian World Cup star, 26, gave audiences a glimpse into his well-deserved summer vacation aboard a luxury yacht. Just as Haaland walked out to hit golf balls off the back of the yacht, he noticed a boat driving by filled with tourists screaming and waving at him. “Look, they do tourist boats,” the Manchester City striker said, telling the cameraman to film the fans. He politely returned their greetings and waved back. “Come and have a look at where Erling Haaland stays,” he added, imitating a tour guide. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” Erling Haaland is currently vacationing on a yacht in Sicily (Erling Haaland/YouTube) Boats filled with tourists hoping to get a glimpse of Haaland are sailing past his yacht (Erling Haaland/YouTube) Norway midfielder Sander Berge, Haaland’s teammate who joined him on the yacht, admitted the interaction is “not for me.” The rest of the …

How to Be a Tourist at Home

How to Be a Tourist at Home

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Travel has a way of making us curious. We wander unfamiliar streets, strike up conversations with strangers, linger in museums, and notice details that we’d otherwise rush past. But that mindset doesn’t need to be reserved for vacations. Below, Atlantic writers and editors share their advice on how to rediscover the places they know best. Stop at your neighborhood ethnic restaurant. This is on my mind because the World Cup just ended, and for each day of the tournament, I tried a meal from one of the countries playing that day. Over the course of 32 days, I ate food from 32 different places (the final was the first time I had to duplicate, eating Argentinean cuisine again), mostly without leaving the Washington, D.C., area. Every day, I felt like I was taking a new trip. Two blocks from …

Gunman kills tourist and wounds 6 others on Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramid

Gunman kills tourist and wounds 6 others on Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramid

MEXICO CITY — A gunman opened fire Monday from a pyramid in the famed Mexican archaeological site of Teotihuacán, killing a female Canadian tourist and wounding six others. At least seven other people were injured as tourists scrambled to escape the gunfire. The shooter later took his own life, officials said. The injured included six U.S. citizens, one of them a 61-year-old woman, as well as a 6-year-old boy from Colombia and two other Colombian nationals. Two Brazilians, one Russian and one Canadian were also injured. At least six of the injured suffered gunshot wounds, authorities said, while others apparently were hurt in falls while trying to escape. There was no immediate breakdown on the conditions of the injured, all of whom were being treated in area hospitals, authorities said. Various Mexican media outlets, citing police sources, identified the assailant as a 27-year-old Mexico City resident who had expressed admiration for Hitler and for the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Monday’s attack occurred on April 20, Hitler’s birthday, and also the anniversary …

Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?

Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?

Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing [email protected] Going places Earth is a big planet with a lot of people on it, which means that even the most niche of interests can find their expression somewhere. Feedback has a sneaking fondness for those peculiar tourist attractions to be found along the many winding highways of the US, like Nebraska’s gloriously literal-minded World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things. But we weren’t prepared for science historian Richard Fallon to draw our attention to the world’s one and only (as far as we know) sculpture park dedicated to foraminifera. If you don’t know what foraminifera are, they are single-celled organisms, mostly found in the sea, which often have a hard external shell, or test. These tests have been fossilised in huge numbers, so the foraminifera fossil record is extraordinarily detailed. The tests also come in a huge variety of shapes, hence …

Machu Picchu tourist trains collide head-on

Machu Picchu tourist trains collide head-on

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