I was reading this post over at Budget Travel about a guy, so fed up with the American Airlines website, decided to redesign the front page to show the big boys how it’s done, at least in the mind of a 22-year-old web designer. Here’s the result. This got me [...]

With over 14 million visitors to Thailand in 2008 alone, there’s probably not a day that goes by where some sort of cultural transgression does not take place. Well, have no fear, before you end up causing your own international incident, bone up on Matador’s top 10 customs you should [...]

So if a picture says a thousand words, do a thousand pictures tell a million words, and would you really need that many to express the beauty of Ghana? Probably not, but it helps, alot. Check out Sam Macmillan’s really cool trip from Ghana set to Sweden’s own Lykke Li [...]

Have you ever noticed how people who live in cold cities simply go nuts in the summer, taking advantage of every sunny day and spending as much time as possible outside in the coveted sunlight (two examples I can think of: Montreal and Stockholm)? Well, New York somewhat has the [...]

The deli owner around the corner from me just got back from his home on the Amalfi Coast where he escapes NYC’s cold, winter months, and my lunches have been all the better for it. For the rest of you who have to wait for those precious summer holiday months [...]

Did anyone else notice that the best travel article in this Sunday’s NYT was actually in the back of the Magazine section? (Sigh, Bill Keller when are you going to wise up and let me run the section for you guys?) In it, soon-to-be-published Micheal J. White recounts a memorable [...]

Luxury travel’s compiled a list of the top 10 most followed travel-related Twitterers, with JetBlue topping the list with over 582,342 followers, followed by Gary Arndt from Everything-Everywhere.com with 63,396 followers, and in third place, our friends over at Kathika with 46,960 followers. (Related: Matador’s listed their 23 favorite travel [...]

In case you haven’t heard, like some sort of odd Incan design, two times a year in Manhattan, the sun set is exactly aligned with the Manhattan grid. This year the first date fell on May 30th and it will happen again on July 12th. Check out this Flickr photostream [...]

London may be a notoriously difficult city to find good food, but don’t despair foodies: an insider’s guide to the best eats in town. By Michele Giordano Ah, the good ole English drinking tea, riding the tube and gaining their incredible wit from the awful weather. An English friend of [...]

Having just finished rereading “A Moveable Feast,” it’s enticing to think that there’s a place on Earth right now that may have that same spirit that Paris did for the “Lost Generation,” a time when the French capital was cheap, artist-friendly, and ground zero for ex-pats in pursuit of their [...]