Once a year the city of Valencia does its best to blow itself up to celebrate the arrival of spring. The festival is called Las Fallas and includes a week of fireworks barrages, parades, and parties all leading up up to St. Joseph’s day on March 19th.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

The NY Times ran a fascinating piece this week on the fate of the former site of the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

The RAD Blog’s Jon Rawlinson is back with new videos after an absence of a month or more. Take a gander at his trip to Kotor, Montenegro.

Technology in travel is all for the good – global cellphones, GPS, travel websites (ahem). But even the most flashpacker-y among us can’t deny the nostalgic appeal of more analog trip technologies.