Best of the web: Culture cringe, cider, Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Ireland, Atlanta fine art, Damascus hotel
October 27, 2008 by Caitlin
Filed under On the Road, Places & Inspiration, Travel Trends & Issues
- * If you ever travel with children, be prepared for a few embarrassing moments dealing with the culture clash. Kayt at Travel Savvy Mom shares her own hilarious, cringe-making moments.
- * Autumn is here and in rural England, the apple harvest is underway. Anthony from the Smith Travel Blog helped make cider in Herefordshire.
- * Enjoy these stunning pics of iconic American landscapes from Kim Wildman at Wild About Travel + Writing who took a trip to Monument Valley on the Utah/Arizona border.
- * In nearby Nevada, Liz at Perceptive Travel is living it up in Vegas.
- * Myamii from For the Love of Food shares what she learnt on her trip to Ireland.
- * Intelligent Travel has a new home, more fully integrated into the National Geographic site. The blog also brings us news of an art exchange between Atlanta’s High Museum of Art and the Louvre.
- * Lara at Cool Travel Guide recommends Art House, a boutique hotel in Damascus - unusually it’s located outside the Old City but, as Lara explains, this has some advantages.
- * Darren at Travel Rants on the rise of virtual travel, with virtual malls and the whole Second Life phenonmenon. Personally, I don’t see this replacing real travel but I have been known to check out destinations pre- and post-trip on Google Earth.
