While the media is publishing its ‘places you must go in 2009’ lists, travel bloggers have been busy posting their ‘top travel blogs’ lists. I place a lot more value on these lists, created by people who are widely traveled, well-read, and often well-published (many travel bloggers are also professional travel writers) than I do … Read more about Travel blogs you’ll love… top 2008 travel blog lists
As travel writers, we don’t wait for the site inspection to start ticking the check boxes. We begin judging a hotel from the moment we arrive. If we’re pulling up in a car loaded with luggage and camera gear, we don’t want to have to search for someone to help with our bags and find out where … Read more about How travel writers select hotels: the criteria we use, part 1
Hotel gurus Mr and Mrs Smith recently shared their secrets as to How Smith finds hotels on their engaging blog. Mrs Smith is a Cool Travel Guide reader and after she recently commented on my post Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: judge it by its author, I asked her how she selects hotels. Mr and … Read more about How travel writers ‘discover’ hotels
The latest issue of Pology is out. Do you know it? It’s a wonderful web magazine on travel and world culture that showcases travel stories and photos that editor Neil Schwartz calls “impassioned vignettes of cultural exploration” which he hopes will inspire people to get out and see the world. Neil writes of Pology’s aim: … Read more about Pology: presenting the beauty in travel normally lost in the routine of the mundane
I was devastated to read about the tragic news of the Madrid air crash, which killed 153 people. You can read about the tragedy here at BBC news and at the International Herald Tribune. I don’t deal with bad news well at the best of times. And it should go without saying at the worst … Read more about Travel and the fragility of life