Home to vineyards, all-night discos and perfect swimming conditions, the Croatian island of Hvar (the capital, appropriately enough, is also named Hvar) is the longest and (supposedly) sunniest of the over 1,000 islands in the country. A long-time visitor explained to the Telegraph that first-time visitors should make sure to [...]

It was announced today over at Lonely Planet that they are adding their guidebook maps to their online guides, a welcome addition to the otherwise truncated online guides that used Google Maps before. However, a cursory look at the new addition shows that, curiously, the Google maps are still there, [...]

Looking for one of Paris’s best neighborhoods to satisfy your hunger? Then head to where the locals head, the quartier d’Aligre in the 12th arrondissement, as described here by Budget Travel. High on street markets (Marché d’Aligre, Marché Beauveau) and low on pretension, you can find three-Michelin star chefs like [...]

Images of Athens’s New Acropolis Museum have begun to crop up, and the good news is that it’s not bad as so many people had feared (in fact it looks pretty amazing). Rumored to be opening on June 30, the 130-million-euro complex containing over 4,000 artifacts will actually be opening [...]

Fresh off his recent twitter controversy, Rolf’s answering tips as to where the best places are to travel around the world with little to no money. Actually, he’s letting Tim Leffel, author of “The World’s Cheapest Destinations” give his opinion. For a full explanation and things to do, click through [...]

Anyone else catch this story about the girl getting paid by her company not to show up to work for a year and travel the world and get paid $80,000 while doing so. Oh the humanity, stories like this make me want to do something crazy and irrational with my [...]

[mbs slideshow=1] Here are some highlights of my trip to Ireland in April of 2009. 1.     St. Patrick’s Cathedral: Dublin. Reputedly the site of a well that St. Patrick himself used to baptize newly converted Christians, the well has since been filled in by the British and the exact location [...]

On the other side of the south of France lies the Pays Basque, the little-known French Basque region over the border from its slightly more well-known Spanish counterpart containing San Sebastian. As this article in T+L explores, the Pays Basque has successfully avoided the hordes of visitors and development that [...]

NYT travel health expert opened up his mailbag this week to answer readers’ questions ranging from how to avoid getting a cold on a plane to whether cosmic radiation will turn your unborn fetus into a member of the X-Men. Here we go: 1) Does saline spray ward off respiratory [...]

A good old-fashioned travel controversy seems to have emerged while I was away. Given that these are far and few between, I’ll try to stoke the flames a bit and try to blow it out of proportion in true online media fashion. It seems that travel writer/columnist Rolf Potts slammed [...]