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Future Security Rule? Use The Bottle For Test!


To some passengers, it seems like just another way to make going through airport security even more unpleasant. TSA is now random testing water containers and other drinks purchased in the airport. The original regulation was that any containers taken into the airport by passengers had to be tested or tossed away. 

The new rule includes all containers, including those purchased at airport concession stands and restaurants on the way to security areas. To many passengers, it may seem that the next security-tighening step at airport check-ins will be for TSA agents to hand out those little bottles you usually get for liquid-testing when visiting your doctor.
Venice, Italy: See The Beautiful City Before It’s Too Late! PDF Print E-mail


Your travel4seniors.com editor last visited Venice several years ago. It was an unhappy surprise one afternoon when the popular St. Mark’s Square was suddenly flooded with a foot of water from a tidal surge of the Venetian Canal.

There were raised wooden platforms along one side to allow some walking, but getting around was difficult. Aqua alta days are increasing, from ten in the 1990s to 60 last year. Therefore, if Venice is on your bucket list, book a visit or you may have to come prepared with a bucket.

Longfellow may have predicted the problem in his poem about Venice:
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest…
White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.
 
 
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