Best of the web: From bike riding in Amsterdam to fish in Tokyo

A round-up of travel links.

• If my post on Polish and Georgian food whetted your appetite for either food or travel, then check out this post about Georgian food on Intelligent Travel and this destination blog on Krakow, Poland by Andrew, a fellow Aussie.

• Amusing toilet signs in London, from my mate Jess at FushMush.

• Green travel insurance – they’re offering a 25% discount if you don’t fly, according to environmental blog EcoStreet.

• Andy writes about the best places to go bike riding in Amsterdam on Europe a la Carte. Or you could walk, run or skate, as I suggest on EcoSalon.

• Also on EcoSalon, my recent travel posts including kayaking, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in Queensland, Australia, why I love train travel, the green credentials of the Go Ahead train and bus group and eco-tourism in Gabon, Africa.

• Sheila muses on the Chinese marketing efforts to promote “Shangri-La” on Perceptive Travel (an issue I’ve also written about before).

• Intelligent Travel has a piece on the local greeter programme running in Paris. It sounds like Christine had a better experience than Agnes writing for The Guardian last year.

• Any PR or marketing types wanting to work with travel bloggers should read this post by Pam at Nerd’s Eye View.

• Tokyo’s Fish Market has closed to tourists after complaints, according to TokyoMango.

• It’s usually Notes from the Road but this month this great travel blog – a finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards – is publishing ‘letters from the canopy’ instead. (They’re letters that Erik wrote about evolution to a Los Angeles pastor from the Panamanian rainforest).

• I laughed at Jen’s story about being approached by a cynical Italian man in Venice. She writes on Folie a Deux, another Weblog Awards finalist.

• Lara at Cool Travel Guide explains why summer is the worst time to visit far north Queensland. (I have two words for you – “wet” and “season” – but Lara explains it in a little more depth).