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I’m sat on Whinny Hill enjoying the solitude, surrounded by sweet smelling gorse flowers, while everyone else flocks to the slightly higher summit of Arthur’s Seat.

I’m reminded of coming up here 5 years ago at the start of lockdown, trying to scramble up to St. Anthony’s Chapel without touching the rocks, as we didn’t know then if the virus was spread by contact. Didn’t have the rumble of traffic or the babble of tourists then.

#Edinburgh #HolyroodPark #gorse #tourists

alojapan.com/1256746/the-best- The best souvenir from Korea? It’s rice for rising numbers of Japanese visitors #IncheonInternationalAirport #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseGovernment #JapaneseNews #JapaneseRice #JapaneseTourists #Korea #KoreanRice #KyodoNews #news #RiceExports #RicePrices #RiceShortage #SouthKorea #tourists By Jun Ji-hye An increasing number of Japanese tourists are visiting South Korea to buy rice, as prices continue to soar in Japan, retail industry…

Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18 – two young German tourists, were handcuffed, dressed in prison uniforms, jailed overnight in Honolulu, Hawaii, then deported.

Their crime? Booking just two nights in a B&B. Victims of Trump’s ICE power-tripping.

This is not border control — it’s institutionalised terrorism.

Don't travel to US if you can avoid it.

Teenage #German #tourists deported from #Hawaii over ‘suspicious’ hotel booking

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/german-tourists-deported-hawaii-cbp-b2736655.html

‘We had already noticed a little bit of what was going on in the #US But at the time, we didn't think it was happening to Germans,’ Maria Lepère says
Pohl and Lepère were interrogated in Honolulu International Airport for hours and allegedly subjected to body scans and strip searches before, finally, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents denied them entry to the country and said they would be deported
The Independent · Teenage German tourists deported from Hawaii over ‘suspicious’ hotel bookingBy James Liddell