I’m reminded of how appealing traveling off-season can be, as we travel around Cyprus updating a guidebook. There’s something about clambering across archaeological ruins devoid of tourists, hiking along an empty nature trail through silent scenery, or sitting at an al fresco café by the sea on a cold, windy day, the wild sea crashing … Read more about Off-season travel: Cyprus
If I’m not getting told that my profession as a travel writer isn’t a ‘real job’, then it seems I’m being told by strangers I meet that it’s their ‘dream job’ (generally accompanied by breathlessness). It is a dream job for me in many ways, but perhaps not in the ways you think. Aside from … Read more about Travel Writing? A Dream Job?
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been told that my job as a travel writer is not a ‘real’ job. The most recent person to tell me was a British comedian during her stand-up show in Lemesos, Cyprus, where my husband and I are currently updating a guidebook. The audience laughed hysterically. Okay, … Read more about You’re a travel writer? But that’s not a real job!
Exotically located movies and major sporting events get us moving, according to the Association of British Travel Agents which has announced its predictions as to where we’ll be inspired to travel in 2008. The organization claims the Cartagena-set ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ “promises to put Colombia back on the map of must see … Read more about Travel inspirations and travel trends: movies, museums and sports move us
“Journeys are the mid-wives of thought”, writes Alain de Botton in my favorite book, Art of Travel. But of all the modes of transport that are most conducive to “internal conversation”, to thinking and to dreaming, the best, he believes, is the train. He writes “On a journey across flat country, I think with a … Read more about Slow travel: train-dreaming