Carnival of Cities: From Carcassonne to Miami

I’m delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities for a second time on Roaming Tales. This is the 30 April edition and we have a bumper crop of great posts. We seem to be confined to North (and Central) America and Europe this week, though we still have a lot of diversity, from Carcassonne to Miami. Happy reading!

Carnival of Cities is a blog carnival – where one blog hosts and other blogs submit posts on a particular theme. The theme for Carnival of Cities is cities and towns. You can see the 23 April edition of Carnival of Cities on Family Travel. I look forward to seeing Carnival of Cities on Leslie Carbone’s blog next week.

Anywhere

Any city: EcoSalon on new guidebooks that highlight a city’s independent businesses.

Europe

Stockholm: EuroPride is one of the biggest events on the gay and lesbian calendar in Europe and this year it’s taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, according to Eyeflare.

Alicante/Valencia: Information on the ferry service (or lack thereof) from Alicante to Valencia in Spain on Costa Blanca Webcast.

Barcelona: Me, My Kid and Life has a post about an open-air market in Barcelona, Spain, including pics of all the yummy food from fish to ostrich eggs.

Edinburgh: A review of the Red Fort Indian restaurant in Edinburgh on the Europe A La Carte blog. A £6 buffet sounds like good value!

Rome: Culture Shock finds accommodation in Rome last minute – and it was surprisingly nice.

Carcassonne: France Tales pays a visit to the medieval French city of Carcassonne. (This has been on my list since reading Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth – not a brilliant book but it did bring the setting magically to life).

Vienna: Mes crazy expériences has written about a visit to Vienna on a rail trip of Europe in 2005.

Salisbury: Traveling Mamas passed through London and stayed in Salisbury as a base for a visit to Stonehenge.

The Americas

San Francisco: CatSynth on a weekend filled with art, music (and cats) in San Francisco.

Washington: Leslie Carbone on the very wonderful Smithsonian museums in Washington DC.

Miami: Photo post of the South Beach in March on the Seabird Chronicles. And a review of South Beach bar Ocean’s Ten on SoloFriendly.

Honululu: Homespun Honululu gets political with a post on the grassroots protest against plans to build a rail network in Honululu.

Cincinnati: If you have a taste for the finer things in life, check out Cincinnati Locavore - this week’s submission has a post on an award-winning distilled vodka only available in the Ohio city.

San Antonio: Intelligent Travel has a post about the River Parade in San Antonio, Texas – lovely pics too.

Granada: And finally, my own post on Granada in Nicaragua - a colonial city on Central America’s biggest lake.

Submit your blog post to the next edition of the Carnival of Cities using our carnival submission form. Please only submit one (non-spammy) post and keep it on the topic of cities and (midsize and bigger) towns. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.