Get your motor running with a different sort of scenic drive

Steven Roll

Running in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC. This is a guest post by Steve Roll, the creator of Travelojos, a blog about traveling to and living in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter @travelojos. It was a cold Sunday morning in winter and just as I accelerated through a curve on a wooded road overlooking Rock [...]

Family road trip from San Diego to Los Angeles

Jen Miner

La Jolla, Legoland and Laguna Beach are great spots to stop on a family road trip from San Diego to Los Angeles. This is a guest post from Jennifer Miner who blogs at The Vacation Gals. Follow her on Twitter at @jenniferminer. Family road trips are practically an American institution. Snacks in a cooler, kids [...]

What’s so great about Seattle, anyway?

Seattle-water-view

Despite its flaws, Seattle is a city of great food, nature, magical summers and (mostly) friendly people. This is a guest post from Pam Mandel who blogs at Nerd’s Eye View. Follow her on Twitter at @nerdseyeview. Seattle is an imperfect city. We have terrible traffic, our real estate is too expensive, our job market somewhat whimsical. [...]

Introducing Nashville’s hot chicken

Rebecca Crump

Hot chicken is to Nashville what sourdough is to San Francisco or shrimp and grits are to Charleston. This is a guest post from Rebecca Crump, a Nashville-based writer who blogs about her life and what she’s cooking at EzraPoundCake.com. The first time we took my husband’s cousin to Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, I warned him. [...]

Romantic honeymoon destinations in the Greek Islands

Greek-Islands

This is a guest post by freelance travel writer Matthew Hawking. In the hit movie Mamma Mia!, Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan lit up the screen but the real star was the stunning land and seascape of the Greek Islands. The Abba-themed romp was filmed on Skopelos and Skiathos, but Greece has nearly 1400 islands [...]

Peru awaits return of travellers after the rains

Flood in Peru

This is a guest post from Ariana Svenson, a mate of mine from university back in Australia. Originally from Western Australia, Ari travelled extensively over five continents before ending up in Peru. She is a director of sustainable travel agency Apus Peru Adventure Travel Specialists and also a director of Peruvian NGO Threads of Peru. [...]

Global Breakfast Tournament – Canada

Wild Blueberry Pancakes Our champion representing Canada in the Global Breakfast Tournament is Tamara from Muskoka in Ontario. Over time, I’ve altered my mom’s original pancake recipe to make a version that’s a little healthier and lighter. The trick of beating the egg white separately is something I picked up from my husband’s favourite waffle [...]

Guest post: A romantic weekend in Bath

This is a guest post by Natasha Judd, a New Zealand writer, traveller and self-described web geek, currently living in London. Her first novel Lessons to Learn, which deals with the challenges and culture shock faced by a Kiwi English language teacher in Korea, was published by Cape Catley in 2007. Natasha also runs the [...]

Recipe road test: Nigella’s Rhubarb Tart

This a guest post from Rose, also known as Pixie, a New Yorker now living in the UK. Pixie blogs at You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato and A SweeTart. I consider myself to be a fairly new cook. There are a few recipes I’ve learned from my Maltese mother and my blog is my [...]

Global Breakfast Tournament – Israel

Our champion representing Israel in the Global Breakfast Tournament is Avital Gertner with a Shakshukah. Can you introduce yourself to readers of The Gooseberry Fool, please? I am Avital and up until about four months ago I was working as an advocate in Haifa, Israel. Recently I have moved with my hubby to Dublin, Ireland [...]

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