Are you a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ traveller? That is, every country you visit you consider it to be a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience and treat it as such? Do you go to a place thinking you may never get back there again so everything you do is a special adventure? Do you go with the idea that you won’t even … Read more about Are you a once-in-a-lifetime traveller or a creature of habit?
That’s what Budget Travel is asking its readers before publishing their own list. You can have your say here. I find it interesting that they’ve asked their readers to submit travel wish lists before releasing their own. Last year, the New York Times travel section came out with a controversial list of 53 places you … Read more about So where will you be going in 2009?
We all love a good list, don’t we? The travel media have been busy publishing their ‘places to go in 2009’ lists, the hot ‘new’ destinations that guidebook publishers and travel publications think you should visit this year, ‘it’ places they want everyone talking about. Last year I posted a list based on places I’d … Read more about Hot new travel destination lists… don’t you love them? Well, don’t you?
If you read Hotel Chatter, Hotel Hotsheet or Happy Hotelier, you’d hardly think hotels were going out of style, however, I’m starting to see evidence to suggest otherwise. As much as I love browsing i-escape, tablet hotels and Mr & Mrs Smith, checking in to a design hotel or lolling about at a luxury resort, … Read more about Are hotels going out of fashion?
While in Istanbul last week I picked up the May special ‘Europe’ issue of US Travel + Leisure with a feature on “Hidden European Neighbourhoods”. The author writes: “Beyoglu is now reclaiming its status as Istanbul’s favourite playground”. Yet Beyoglu has always been Istanbul’s commercial heart and its main pedestrianised street is the city’s main … Read more about Or… everything old is new again