Travel Tonic

Bringing you what’s new in travel for December 30th 2009

• San Francisco: Pier 39′s sea lions say bye-bye – JD Rinne recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:If you’ve been to San Francisco’s popular Pier 39, along Fisherman’s Wharf, in the past, you’ve probably stopped to gawk at the famous (and numerous) sea lions that congregate there. But as Wired magazine reports, the sea lions have vamoosed.
• New Year’s around the world – RobinD_travel recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:What are you doing for New Year’s Eve? The sparkle-and-pop quotient all depends on your geographic location.
• Google City Tours Adds Walking Directions, Custom Maps – Lifehacker’s Kevin Purdy just posted this article:
  

  Six months after launching City Tours in Labs, Google’s Maps team has tweaked the interface and made it more friendly to how people actually vacation: head to a city, pick places to go, and get precise directions to them. …

  Read the rest at Lifehacker