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.
Thanks for featuring my posts about the Red Fort Indian restaurant in Edinburgh. I’ll link back tot the post.
I host a Europe Travel Blog Carnival every month is anyone would like to submit a post on this topic:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_3548.html
If you’d like to host the Carnival please contact me.
That sounds great – thanks for letting us know. – Caitlin
Thank you to Roaming Tales for hosting this Carnival! Good job and much appreciated!