What the hell is Florida thinking?

How a crackdown on illegal immigrants would affect all foreigners and could hurt the state’s biggest industry. What the hell is Florida thinking? Seriously! Tourism is Florida’s biggest industry, injecting $65 billion into the state’s economy every year. Sixty-five BILLION dollars. And over a MILLION jobs. Yet the state could be about to jeopardise all [...]

Animals in New York: Gorillas at Bronx Zoo

Bronx, NYC; June 2010 Even a baby gorilla somehow manages to look like a wise old man. It’s like they’re 100 years old when they’re born. Would you just look at their faces? Adorable! I am not as lucky as Kristin from Camels and Chocolate who got to go see wild gorillas in Rwanda all [...]

Travel blogger TBEX Q&A

I’m en route to New York City for TBEX, the Travel Blog Exchange conference. Through the miracle of Virgin America’s in-flight wifi, I’m writing this from thousands of feet up in the air. Pam at Nerd’s Eye View has a Q&A for travel bloggers going to TBEX. Some people are responding in the comments but [...]

Urban biodiversity – Life in the concrete jungle

Cities have a bad rap for being environmental baddies and that’s not always justified. While I love visiting beautiful wilderness areas, I know that my impact on the planet’s ecology is often less in a city because I don’t need a car to get there or get around. I’ve previously written about greening your city [...]

Photo Friday: Trafalgar Square with pigeons in 1990s London

Trafalgar Square, London; December 1998 After last week’s trip down memory lane to a childhood holiday in Fiji, here is another time travel edition of Photo Friday. This is Trafalgar Square in London in 1998, with the Canadian High Commission in the background. My mother was living in Cambridge at the time and I spent [...]

Peru awaits return of travellers after the rains

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. [...]

Travel and expat blogs make finals for 2010 Bloggies

Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years. The Bloggies is one [...]

Interview with Terence Carter of Grantourismo travel site

Recently HomeAway Holiday-Rentals announced a major new foray into the world of social media. The holiday home rental company has hired husband-and-wife team travel writer Lara Dunston and photographer Terence Carter for a year-long project called Grantourismo. The idea is that Lara and Terry will travel around the world – 24 locations in 12 months [...]

Nominate your favourite food and travel bloggies for the 2010 Bloggies

One more day to get your nomination form in – please consider a vote for Roaming Tales! 2010 Bloggies The Weblog Awards, or Bloggies, are on again and accepting nominations for one more day. I finally got my form in this afternoon, nominating a few of my favourite blogs, including several great food and travel [...]

Best of the Web: Christmas and festive season in travel

This week’s theme is Christmas and the holidays in travel. It is, as Americans like to call it, the holiday season. I prefer “festive season”, since the word “holiday” to me is synonymous with vacation rather than religious holidays. But maybe that’s just because I’m a “furriner”. The holidays in question for me are Christmas, [...]

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