In light of the recent rumblings in the wine country in California, plus the ongoing threat of an "airbourne ash event" in Iceland, travel plans may change quickly over the coming months. For one thing, no-one's going to be opening any bottles of sparkling wine in Sonoma for a while (jury is out on how sad we feel for millionaire wine tycoons posting photos of their precious vintages strewn around their cellar floors - um, you do operate on a huge fault line, perhaps some kind of securing device was in order?) and if the Icelandic baby decides to blow off some steam, we could all just be stranded where we happen to be again. It'll be just like 2010 only with more ebola and ISIS but at least we all now know how to say Eyjafjallajökull this time around. Although it's a different one, so that's no use. Anyway, there's this great/scary real-time earthquake page that shows you exactly where the latest tremors are, if that's the kind of thing you're curious about and want to plan your travels accordingly. If you're lucky, you might get stranded by an Icelandic volcano in a Californian wine cellar that suddenly has a bunch of discount Pinot Gri to offload.
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