Bookmarked Travel: Weekly travel links [19 August, 2016]

Bookmarked Travel – a round up of the best travel links and news for the week ending 19 August, 2016.

Travel News

Uber’s self-driving cars will pick up their first customers this month [The Verge]

Qantas’ direct Australia to Europe services could land in 2017 [KarryOn]

She’ll go far: baby girl born on plane is given 1m air miles [The Guardian]

The train that exposes what’s wrong with Britain’s absurd rail services [Independent]

Airbnb host says guest caused $25,000 in damage, may have shot porn in the house [Travel + Leisure]

Paddington station developer: I’ll open up beauty of listed terminus [EveningStandard]

Travel Articles

How to visit 30 countries in 3 months with a Eurail Pass [Eurail Travels]

The best travel photos of 2016 so far [The Holiday Lettings Blog]

50 exotic places you desperately need to see [Canadian Traveller]

The secret language of flight attendants [BBC]

The most inaccessible places in the world people desperately want To visit [Atlas Obscura]