I got a chuckle from this German tourism advert in a London taxi. Seems an odd way to celebrate 20 years of a wall coming down. Would you make an ad saying “come visit post-apartheid South Africa” or “post-communist Poland”?

Ben (a Brit!) has won the best job in the world competition. The lucky bastard will now rake in USD 100,000 and blog about how awesome it is to live in paradise. Tough break, huh?

He’s got an impressive adventure laden resume, including a road trip around Africa. In fact, it looks like he’s using his Africa trip blog to blog about Queensland now. If I come across a more official Island caretaker blog then I’ll toss the link up, but in the meantime, you can follow his stay in paradise on his Afritrex blog.

The folks at responsible travel sent over this survey asking about over hyped destinations, with the promise in a chance to win a rough guide for your troubles.

I guess it’s not very scientific of me to comment on the survey I’m promoting, but it’s an interesting survey. I get the feeling that they are trying to get some stats that re-enforce the same idea that the Estonians were going after in their recent travel adverts: that there are some places that are just over hyped as destinations and not as much fun as quirky little spots off the beaten path.

I continue to have a slight obsession with the Island Reef Job, the Queensland advertisement wherein you get paid $100,000 to live in and advertise the Whitsunday Islands for 6 months. Applications closed a week and a bit ago, and now the videos of the 50 short list candidates are up. The videos are fun all around, as you might expect of 50 videos picked from 30,000, and I think it would be fun to hang out with most of these folks, they seem like fun. Check them out and make sure to vote!

Just a reminder to everyone: if you want to apply for the Whitsunday Islands caretaker possition now is the last day to do so. Just take an hour today to put together a minute long video explaining why you would be the best person to represent the Whitsunday Islands to the world, and then upload it and cross your fingers.