Top 8 Reasons To Love Canada
Eva over at WorldHum is defending her home country of Canada, highlighting her top eight reasons why Canada rules. From kooky hockey sportscasters, the ability to road trip it to the Arctic, and their abundance of talented comedians (although the entire “Kids In The Hall” are unforgivably omitted in this piece), Canada has plenty of […]
And The Award For The Best Travel Photo Of 2008 Goes To . . .
Every year National Geographic’s Traveler holds a contest for the best amateur travel photo; 2008’s winner being a candid shot from within the Prado Museum in Madrid, a photo that earned this lucky photographer a 15-day voyage to Antarctica. To see all of this year’s winners click here. My favorite’s the third runner-up, a magical […]
Fare War: Dublin
It seems like all of a sudden airlines are scrambling to ensure that you get to Dublin as soon as possible, for as little as possible, so that you can visit as many pubs as possible (as well as see everything else this amazing country has to offer). If I’m not mistaken, there’s also a […]
Videos From The South or Videos From Places I’d Rather Be On My Birthday
Well it’s not officially my birthday yet for another hour — unless you’re in the Canadian Maritimes, in which case let the revelry begin — but I thought I’d go ahead and imagine spending it in a couple of places I’d rather be today, an annual tradition that I usually partake in given the fact […]
How Ethical Is Your Travel?
I was going through this Top 10 Ethical Tips for traveling to see how ethical (or, more likely, unethical) my travel usually is. Well I can’t say that I’ve planted any trees on a trip like #2 suggests (I planted some cucumbers and tomatoes in my backyard here in Brooklyn last summer, do you think […]
See London’s East End Before It Ends
First off, I apologize for the lame title to this blog posting. Now that that’s behind me; East London (and more specifically, Stratford) is being handed the incredibly well choreographed and impossible-to-match Olympic torch from China in four years, which spells trouble for this immigrant neighborhood of over 1.5 million (take a look at a […]
Virgin Passenger To Branson: Your Food Stinks
You remember your first job (or your current one if you’re that unlucky) where given your low level on the totem pole, you were the one that was subjected to the ranting of the really-pissed-off-customer, and all you wanted was for that person to realize how little you care? Well, if your name is Richard […]
Lessons From The Road To Damascus
Feel like the world’s getting smaller? A trip to the Middle East will help convince you otherwise. Here’s seven easy lessons to help make sure you’re prepared. By Laura Bridgestock Spending ten days traveling from Istanbul to Damascus promised to be the most exciting trip I’d ever taken — and it was. I’ve never been […]
Buenos Aires On Zero Pesos A Day
As the Traveler points out, Buenos Aires is pretty cheap for most foreigners anyways ($1 equals about 3 1/2 Argentine pesos as of today, 4.8 for one British pound) but for the real cheapskate, myself included (not by choice) BA has a ton of things to see and do for approximately zero dollars/pounds/pesos. One of […]
New York City: Now More Touchier Than Ever
Budget Travel’s reporting on New York City’s newly unveiled tourism website and touch screen laden information center located just off of Times Square, where visitors from around the world no longer are forced to shuffle through those so old-fashioned paper pamphlets but instead are able to explore everything Gotham has to offer at the touch […]