Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
The Gooseberry Fool is hosting the Carnival of Cities for the first time next week. This is a weekly event celebrating cities (and midsize to large towns). My travel blog, Roaming Tales, has hosted the event twice before and it’s always an interesting trip around the world to different cities. Submissions are accepted for any [...]
Train company First Great Western has abolished shared sleeper compartments on trains and will force single travellers to pay a supplement. The company has cited privacy concerns as its motivation. “It is considered more appropriate in the modern age to allow people their privacy. You wouldn’t expect to share a hotel room with a stranger [...]
Cupcakes have been very chic ever since the Magnolia Bakery moment in Sex and the City. There’s usually a queue around the block at this unassuming bakery in Lower Manhattan. There’s a spin-off further uptown, not to mention a host of copycats like Little Cupcake Bakeshop in Brooklyn and the Buttercup Bake Shop in Midtown. [...]
Yesterday I shared my own experience in running this site and my food blog, The Gooseberry Fool, and asked how big the travel blogging niche actually is. The difference in traffic between the two sites has surprised me but I wasn’t sure how indicative it was, so I decided to look at it a little [...]
You might recall when the finalists for the 2008 Bloggies came out, I drew attention to the fact that there was not a single travel site nominated. There was no travel blog category and travel blogs had not made the cut in any of the general categories. By contrast there were 11 food blogs among [...]
The good news is that some of London’s biggest attractions don’t cost a penny. Here are three ways you can see the sights of London for free. 1. Museums and art galleries All public museums and galleries are free (though donations are always appreciated). The British Museum has been free since it opened in 1753 [...]
This is my version of pasta primavera – food to celebrate spring. You could make this at another time of year using good quality frozen peas and broad beans, or you could vary the recipe by using other spring vegetables such as leeks, spring onions, asparagus, snap peas. This is vegetarian but if you prefer, [...]
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