Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]
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. [...]
Copenhagen, Denmark; August 2006 The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen Harbour is one of Denmark’s most famous landmarks. As a result she usually attracts a crowd of adoring onlookers, not unlike the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris. There’s none of this business of admiring her from afar either – one by one or [...]
A round-up of the best links from the blogosphere on hotels, transport, planning tools and advice. Going to SXSWi (aka spring break for geeks)? Austin local and SXSWi veteran and speaker Sheila Scarborough shares her tips at Every Dot Connects on how attendees can get the most out of the conference and enjoy their time [...]
Copenhagen, Denmark; August 2006 Nyhavn or New Haven is one of the most picturesque parts of Copenhagen. The waterfront is lined with restaurants, cafés and bars and you can sit outside and enjoy a bite to eat or a drink. The classic Danish open sandwich – or smørrebrød – is a popular choice, or a [...]
London; June 2007 My sister Emma at age five by the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, London. Emma playing on the pirate ship in the Peter Pan Playground in Kensington Gardens. One of the best things about London are its wonderful parks. They are fantastic for adults and children alike, and beautiful in all [...]
London, UK; June 2007 If a map of the United Kingdom marks a certain area as ‘forest’, it pays to check what is meant by that. There may not actually be any trees. In medieval times, the word ‘forest’ was used to denote deer hunting grounds. The Caledonian forest in Scotland, for example, is mostly [...]
`The heaviest snow since 1991 transforms the capital. Snow in London is a rare occasion, to be greeted with wonderment and awe, even when we’re talking about less than 1cm of the white stuff sprinkling the ground for a few hours. So imagine the excitement when we get the heaviest (some news outlets says ‘worst’ [...]
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