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The Traveler Series: Trans Siberian Part Two – More Vodka and Death Threats from the Russian Mafia.
The Traveler Series today features the second and last part of David Rogers’s Trains-Siberian chronicles. David Rogers loves traveling, and loves writing about it. He’s been blogging for quite some time now, on his “Last train to Lhasa“, a travel blog where he talks about his trips to Scandinavia, Russia and Asia. Here’s the second of [...]
The Traveler Series: Trans Siberian Part One – Utter Mayhem!
The Traveler Series today features David Rogers’s Trains-Siberian chronicles. David Rogers loves traveling, and loves writing about it. He’s been blogging for quite some time now, on his “Last train to Lhasa“, a travel blog where he talks about his trips to Scandinavia, Russia and Asia. Here’s the first of two parts of his chronicles of [...]
Trans-siberian railway, where is Hawkins?
Just as I am starting to plan out my own trans-siberian trip for this summer, I bumped into Nick Hawkins’ blog, who’s doing the same thing at this very moment. You can really say what he’s doing is a real social media trip, accompanied by tools like Facebook, Twitter, Google Latitude and and his GPS [...]
TwitchHiker: how far can Twitter take you?
Image via CrunchBase Paul Smith, a journalist for the Guardian, really believes in the power of Twitter and wants to prove the world he can do something out of the ordinary with it. That is why he is starting a quest that will take him as far as Twitter takes him, with the ideal final destination [...]
Valentine’s Day – Traveling with your loved one
Image via Wikipedia Valentine’s Day is approaching, and for those of you who still haven’t decided where (and with whom??) to spend it, here’s a series of inspiration sources to draw from. For those of you who are based or heading to the US, our friends at Tripwolf prepared a list of the best places of the [...]
Destinations Show in London
It is a real travelful week in London! Today we visited Destinations, a great fair held and organized at Earl’s Court by The Times. We spent the whole afternoon getting inspired by the hundreds of colorful and amazing proposals catered by anyone from national tourism bureaus (Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, to name a few), to travel [...]
Backpackers favorites
So where are all the backpackers going? As reported by The Lost Girls, the Hostelling International recently released their bookings data, and we discovered that the top 10 favorite backpackers destinations are: France USA England & Wales Italy Spain Argentina Norway The Netherlands Switzerland Belgium Especially in these time of recession, hostels and budget accomodation came back and bookings hit a 14% in the last months [...]