6 Discoveries from Near and Far: Volume XXX

I. Around the World

Things I found on long walks in foreign cities, or perhaps when someone posted them on Twitter.

Flying Turnips in Spain — An odd and oddly beautiful tradition in Spain
That Time Queen Elizabeth Drove King Abdullah Around in Her LandRover — “His nervousness only increased as the Queen, an Army driver in wartime, accelerated the Land Rover along the narrow Scottish estate roads”
What to Say to Get Your Way — How to talk to anyone (anyone? yep—it seems that way)
Virgin Atlantic Up...