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| TRAVELLER INTERVIEW | Published: 09/02/10 |
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The Traveller Interview group asks travellers about their best and worst travel experiences.
Recently minnesota_trekker gave great answers to a load of questions. Here is a sample:
Question: Seven Wonders of the World? What are your seven wonders, natural or human-made (that you’ve seen)?
minnesota_trekker: In no specific order: 1: The relics of ancient Egypt. 2: The relics of [...]
| DUBAI: NO KISSING! | Published: 19/03/10 |
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If you’re in the mood for love, Dubai might not be your destination of choice right now. An English couple allegedly caught kissing in Dubai are facing a possible month in jail, while two Emirates Airline cabin crew were given three-month jail terms for texting sexy.
These sentences are driven in an effort to enforce traditional [...]...
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| DO YOU HAVE AN AMAZING FOOD/TRAVEL STORY? | Published: 17/03/10 |
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Really, what traveller doesn’t? It’s amazing how often travel and food intersect to produce your most lasting memories. With that in mind, veteran Lonely Planet author and editor Don George is putting together our latest anthology, A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Encounters Around the World.
As Don says, ‘every traveller has some unforgettable food story – [...]...
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| PLANE FUNNY | Published: 16/03/10 |
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If like me you’re not at your most relaxed in a metal container soaring 30 thousand feet above the ground you may find little to laugh about as you jet off on your travels, but a couple of recent incidents have led me to rethink.
On an internal flight within the Philippines, upon landing there was [...]...
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| SEE ROME, DRAW ROME: THE POWER OF PERCEPTION | Published: 15/03/10 |
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This may be an oldie, but we were blown away by it.
The other day, we stumbled across this video that shows Stephen Wiltshire of the UK taking a brief helicopter flight over Rome, then drawing nearly the entire city centre from memory alone.
Diagnosed with autism at a young age, Stephen has made a career of [...]...
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| WHY IT’S A GREAT WEEK TO GO AROUND THE WORLD | Published: 14/03/10 |
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Ever felt like you were going around in circles? Well, this is the week to do it.
Math aficionados worldwide celebrated Pi Day on the fourteenth of March – 3/14 in the American dating system, corresponding to the first three digits of pi: 3.14. Devotees commemorated the unofficial holiday (which also happens to be Albert Einstein’s [...]...
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| DISCOVER OUR NEW GUIDEBOOKS! | Published: 12/03/10 |
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It’s pretty buzzy around Lonely Planet HQ. We’ve got some big news, and we’re all so excited we’re in danger of behaving badly.
Our new colour country guide series, Discover, is about to hit the shelves. These beauties are full of colour photos and they look amazing – but even more importantly, they’re seriously smart.
We’re almost [...]...
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| 76-SECOND TRAVEL SHOW: ‘SPRING BREAK IS 50, KINDA’ | Published: 09/03/10 |
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There is absolutely nothing more embarrassing about Americans than how many act during Spring Break. Well, it at least makes the Top 5.
The traditional week-off from school in March can be measured in the misty rainbows seen in the spray of ‘Girls Gone Wild’ wet t-shirt contests, or still pools of puke dotting the beaches [...]...
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| EAT WELL ON THE MOVE IN EUROPE | Published: 08/03/10 |
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The sniff of Spring is in the air in Europe, which means planning for summer journeys can begin. One overlooked detail of riding the rails in Europe is the food, glorious food that you may or may not end up enjoying. Here are some suggestions for those planning a trip, short or long, around Europe [...]...
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| THE WORLD’S GREATEST TRAVEL STORIES… YOURS! | Published: 05/03/10 |
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LONELY PLANET/WALL STREET JOURNAL CONTEST
Ever want to be published in the Wall Street Journal? You can be. Lonely Planet has teamed up with WSJ to search out the world’s greatest travel stories – and print the best in WSJ’s Travel Report this May.
What to do? Think about the travel moment that changed you, places where [...]...
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| 76-SECOND TRAVEL SHOW: ‘WHAT TRAVEL TEACHES’ | Published: 02/03/10 |
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At the New York Times Travel Show last weekend, I learned that Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing author Don George is a failed poet, Sree Sreenivasan of Columbia University believes it’s impossible to be a ‘thought leader’ in social media YET, the New Yorker’s Susan Orlean doesn’t prepare before traveling, you can hire a [...]...
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