Linkapalooza: where's the cheapest place in Europe?

More of the best of travel on the web this week:

Travel destinations, dreams and ideas:

• Albania - with $1 beers, it's the cheapest place in Europe [SF Gate]
  
• The best beach in Brazil (some place called Itacare) [Times Online]
• Driving through Cuba [TheStar.com]
  
• Fromer's recommends some Mexico and Caribbean vacation deals [SF Gate]
  
• What about North America? 31 summer travel ideas [NY Times]
  
• Paris for jazz lovers [Times Online]
• Rick Steves visits Persepolis, Iran [Seattle Times]
  

Travel intelligence:

• 6 tips for flying on time [Consumer Reports]
• Is the best fare found on an airline's own website? [USA Today]
• The makings of a good travel digital camera [SF Gate]
  

Travel business:

• Virgin looking to launch "urban" hotel brand? [Marketing Week]
  
• Ryanair says the era of low cost flying is not over [Times Online]
• Trump opens Las Vegas luxury hotel, can it work without a casino? [San Jose Mercury Sun]

The bizarreness:

• Wales' annual man vs. horse marathon coming up on June 14 [TheStar.com]
• Denmark sets first masturbate-a-thon [UPI]

Jebus. I'm not going to touch that last one with a 10 foot pole...except to offer that perhaps we now have even more evidence as to why the Danes' are the happiest people in the world...