{"id":43008,"date":"2024-10-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43008"},"modified":"2024-10-17T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:18:53","slug":"retractable-cable-locks-2025-emerging-destinations-no-uk-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/retractable-cable-locks-2025-emerging-destinations-no-uk-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Retractable Cable Locks\/2025 Emerging Destinations\/No UK Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retractable Cable Locks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been through a few brands of retractable cable locks that are seemingly no longer offered, so to prepare for multiple train trips in Europe, I picked up two of the best-rated ones on Amazon<\/a> via the travel brand Lewis & Clark. These thin cables with a combination lock can snake around your luggage and secure it to a rack or seat and can even go through some of the larger zipper pulls. The cable retracts into a small case though and doesn\u2019t take up much room when packing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panama City Bike Tour<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a big fan of walking tours to get oriented in a new city and get some history, but I like to take a bike tour instead sometimes because you can cover a lot more ground. I\u2019ve done them in a lot of big cities with good bike paths and enjoyed my one in Panama City last week with Go Panama Bike Tours<\/a>. One result of the Panama Canal expansion lane that opened in 2016 is that the city used a lot of that excavated rock to build a long biking and jogging path that extends along the water from the old city (Casco Viejo) to the end of the skyscraper zone miles away. Then there\u2019s also a bike path on the bypass road that goes out into the Pacific. There\u2019s a Reel here<\/a> if you want to see video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerging Destinations in 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Skyscanner and Booking.com both put out reports this week on which destinations are seeing a big rise in interest for 2025. Apparently very few travelers use both services because there was only 1 intersection among 20 results: Tromso, Norway. Both had one head-scratching U.S. result (Baltimore and Houston) and plenty of places I\u2019ve never even heard of that look nice, like Jo\u00e3o Pessoa in Brazil (from the Booking report<\/a>) and Tartu, Estonia (from the Skyscanner report<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good Riddance to Coal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a line in Mad Men<\/em> about how the London Fog raincoats were a misnomer: it wasn\u2019t fog, but coal smoke pollution that blanketed the city. You won\u2019t be smelling coal in the UK anymore because the last coal-fired electric plant there closed<\/a> at the end of last month. The UK isn\u2019t the first European nation to get rid of the toxic polluter completely\u2014Portugal is coal-free and Denmark replaced it with 100% renewable energy\u2014but the UK\u2019s transformation is significant because the country is part of the G7, the group of the world\u2019s largest economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nomadico Newsletter #127<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43009,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43008\/revisions\/43009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}