Best of the web: Travel inspiration

A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up.

• Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots.

• England is beautiful in the summer – check out these photos of swimming in the canal at Stratford upon Avon. The Soultravelers3 family were there to soak up the sunshine in August last year.
  

• Liz at Perceptive Travel Blog shares the news that Perceptive Travel Magazine is now monthly and highlights her favourite articles.

• Andy at Europe a la Carte writes about modern art in Amsterdam and what’s on offer while the Stedelijk is closed.

• On EcoSalon, I write about volunteer tourism in Scotland and the eco-friendly high of kayaking.

• Jenn at Intelligent Travel writes about St Patrick’s Day in the elegant southern US city of Savannah, Georgia.

• Fabulous photos from Steve (aka @ourman on Twitter) on International Women’s Day in Bamenda, Cameroon.

• Kim at Wild About Travel + Writing takes some travel inspiration from Western movies. Check out her article Scenes from Central Casting about Monument Valley on the Utah/Arizona border, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age recently.

• Pam at Nerd’s Eye View hangs out with the fish in the Seattle Aquarium.

• When is opera not opera? Lara at Cool Travel Guide spends a night at the opera in Verona, Italy.

• There are a lot of things women can’t do in Saudi Arabia but they CAN go horse riding – Susie of Arabia tells us all about it.

• Language, cultural immersion and volunteering in Nicaragua (link via @whltravel on Twitter).

• A great post on Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, at Wild Junket.

• Kristin at Camels and Chocolate writes about an illicit (for her since she’s American) trip to Cuba – just about everything that could go wrong did, but at least it was memorable. There are lots of cool pics since this is her submission to Photo Friday, a weekly blogging event run by Debbie at Delicious Baby.

• Jen at Folie a Deux parties in Tel Aviv before leaving for Jerusalem on the next leg of her trip to Israel.

• And here on Roaming Tales, you may have noticed a refresh in the site design and the fact that I’ve merged with my food blog (formerly The Gooseberry Fool). In recent posts, I explore fairytale Copenhagen and rural Nicaragua, share a recipe for Lebanese eggplant stew and discuss my picks for the Tourism Queensland blogging job.

Photo by: Freeparking on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons. The original image is the 1880 oil painting “Flying Carpet” by Russian painter Viktor Vasnetsov.

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