Talk Travel Photography With Us on Tomorrow’s TNI

If you love travel and Twitter, you probably already know about the weekly phenomenon called Travelers’ Night In. Invented by ZipSetGo.com, this social media chat-fest happens every Thursday afternoon on Twitter starting at 3:30 pm EST and runs until 5 pm.

Talk Travel Photography With Us on Tomorrow’s TNI

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The Radar: Star Wars Travel, Unusual Berlin Hotel, TNI Canadian Rockies

• Most travelers today are familiar with the iconic travel posters of the art deco era, advertising Monaco's Grand Prix and Rio's sunny beaches. It's the kind of art that makes you wistful for a ride on a PanAm flight or... the Millennium Falcon? Illustrator Steve Thomas has created these hilarious and fabulous Star Wars-inspired travel posters that combine the films' out-of-this world destinations with the art deco glamour of travel's yesteryears. Now about getting that light saber through security... [Paste Magazine]

• Guests at Berlin's Propeller Island City Lodge will find unusual rooms designed in themes ranging from the wacky to wild. In the coffin room, sleep under a closed lid or sleep securely in jail-cell themed diggs. [Spot Cool Stuff]

• Twitter's TNI (Travelers' Night In) is this afternoon from 3:30-5:00pm Eastern, sponsored by Banff Lake Louise Tourism. Follow along and tweet to win awesome prizes including a three-day heli-hiking adventure in the Canadian Rockies, and a photo op with the Banff Squirrel. [ZipSetGo.com]

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Illustrations courtesy of Steve Thomas

Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/the-radar-star-wars-travel-unu.html