Travel Regrets: One Lost Conversation

Travel Regrets: One Los...

Filed under: Africa , Mauritius , Seychelles , United Kingdom It’s impossible to know what a lost conversation might have yielded. A lost conversation occupies a place in memory, a reservoir of sadness or relief. It’s the shape of the reservoir that remains forever unknown....

British Tourism Q&A...

Filed under: Europe , United Kingdom British tourism is a big topic in 2012. With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next month, the Olympics in July and August, and the Paralympics in August and September, the United Kingdom is under some serious scrutiny, in particular as a national...

Catch The May 20 Solar ...

Filed under: Learning , Festivals and Events , North America , Canada , United States , News Later this month, North America will witness its first solar eclipse in more than 18 years. On May 20, the moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun, blocking out most of the light from our...

Top Travel Destinations...

Filed under: Asia , Europe , North America , United States , Hotels and Accommodations , Transportation , Internet Tools , Travel Deals , Central America , Caribbean , Luxury Travel Reports and polls determining the top travel destinations in the world come to us in variety of ways...
Trashcam Project Shows A Different Side Of Hamburg

Trashcam Project Shows ...

Filed under: Europe , Germany Called the Trashcam Project , Hamburg’s sanitation workers have equipped standard 1,000-liter garbage containers with pinhole cameras. Using these cameras, the “binmen” (and one “binwoman”) take pictures of their favorite places...
Orkney Islands Serendipity: Discovering the Best Place I Never Wanted to See

Orkney Islands Serendip...

Filed under: Europe , United Kingdom “You’ll need to catch the bus to Stromness,” says the lady at the tourist information office. She’s the cheery sort you’d expect to find working here — that rare employee who genuinely seems to love her job. I...

Cockpit Chronicles: Get...

Filed under: The Cockpit Chronicles For some, life couldn’t be any more perfect than if they were paid to travel. I’ve run across three airline crew members who have discovered ways to keep their jobs fresh and exciting by embracing what is for them the biggest benefit that...

British Woman Prepares ...

Filed under: Paddling , Asia , Europe , North America , Japan , Canada , News Last April we posted a story about Sarah Outen, an adventurous 26-year-old from the U.K. who had set out to circumnavigate the globe using nothing but her own power. Sarah called her journey the London2London...
Got Milk? This Swiss Soft Drink Does

Got Milk? This Swiss So...

Filed under: Food and Drink , Europe , Switzerland It looks like soda. It tastes like soda. But the Swiss soft drink pictured above has a peculiar key ingredient: milk whey. First introduced in the 1950s , Rivella beat out both Coke and Pepsi in sales in its home country, and a...

Tourism In Britain Q&am...

Filed under: Europe , United Kingdom Sally Shalam, a regular contributor at the Guardian , is an experienced travel writer with a strong focus on tourism in the United Kingdom . Her archive at the Guardian is full of wonderfully detailed reviews of accommodations across the UK. Many of...

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