Come see Barcelona with Danny. You remember Danny, right? My 37-year-old unemployed friend who spends his days in Barcelona drinking coffee, smoking, cigarettes, and skateboarding around the city with nary a care. Yes, I’m jealous. Enjoy this unique look at Barcelona.

Oh, Bangkok. What will we ever do with you? Some love it, some hate it, some have both feelings towards it — often at the same time. It grabs travelers for indefinite amounts of time when they were simply passing through. It’s conflicted, it’s beautiful, it’s Bangkok, and we wouldn’t have it any [...]

New York to Tel Aviv for $1085: You know about Birthright, the program where Jews from around the world are given a free trip to Israel? Why don’t other countries do this? Why isn’t Italy flying me out for the summer? That country better be careful, I may just think [...]

Today, I read an article on Vagabondish.com that got me thinking in more existential ways than one. It dealt with the meaning of religion and its place in a traveler’s life – which belief-system a traveler relates to, what was the most commonly found practice of couchsurfers, if travelers are more in [...]

By Susan Radcliffe As anyone who’s been there knows (especially in the summer), Spain is a very popular holiday destination. The Costa del Sol is overrun with tourists and some of the country’s most beautiful beaches are marred by the crowds and the concrete high-rise hotels. But this wasn’t always [...]

Finding destination not overrun with fanny-packed tourists is getting harder by the day. After sharing Luke’s recent Paris Catacombs post with a friend of mine, his inner sissy erupted with, “dude, I would go the opposite way of that place.” That led me to think: What better way to avoid tourists than [...]

This week Cartagena, Colombia, is getting the “walk-in-the-shoes-of-”blank” treatment from the NYT, with a look at the city through the eyes (and hands) of Gabriel García Márquez, perhaps Colombia’s most famous artistic export (outside of Shakira). Though they note the author never really lived there for much of his life [...]

Jirisan, one of South Korea’s highest mountains, is a favorite hike in the country. But come prepared, it’s not as easy as you’d hoped. By Andrew Post Jirisan, the highest mountain in continental South Korea, is a 6,284-foot-high pile of rocks, trees, rivers, bushes, flowers, black bears, Buddhists and backpackers, [...]

Feeling a little wanderlust? Maybe this travel around the world in under a minute-and-a-half will help a bit?