Carnival of Cities for 30 December 2009 – From New York to Nairobi

Happy new year! I am delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities this week. What a great round-up of interesting posts about cities around the world. To all the participating bloggers, thank you and don’t forget to promote this post!
Please note, the Carnival of Cities is a blog carnival for posts about any single [...]

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, the Winter/Summer [...]

Best of the Web: A carnival of food and travel

Welcome to the first installment of my new-style Best of the Web feature. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback when I ran my poll. I’ve decided to keep the format going as an occasional feature but to focus on themes. This first one is on the intersection of food and travel – something I suspect [...]

Hotel tips from travel writers

Travel blog 101 Holidays has a useful new feature for travellers – a series where travel writers recommend a hotel they would stay in themselves, with their own money. The rules are that the hotels must be under £150 ($250) a night for two people and the tip has to be written in the form [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 5 October

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to my question about the format of this ‘best of the web’ feature. The polls will remain open until Wednesday but I have more or less decided what I want to do.
This will be my last regular link love post in this format, though I may decide to [...]

Best of the web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 28 September

We have guests from out of town so I have been playing tourist in San Francisco this past week and yesterday we went to Alcatraz. I’ve only lived here since July but it’s amazing how quickly I’ve started to feel at home here. Like many locals, I may not have got around to doing Alcatraz [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 21 September

San Francisco is enjoying an Indian summer so we are dining al fresco as much as possible and enjoying all the wonderful fruit and vegetables. The nectarines and peaches are still in full swing and have been joined by lovely plums and heirloom tomatoes have really come into their own.
With the warm weather, it’s also [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 14 September

I’ve had a site outage for most of today so you may have missed this morning’s post on ice cream. I spent quite a bit of time on it, then it was up for just two hours before the site went down. So please take a look and leave a comment for me!
As for this [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Quick travel links

A quick round-up of useful travel links..
* Go check out the Carnival of Cities, hosted this week by Jessie Voigts of The Wandering Educators. There is a great collection of links to posts on towns and cities around the world, from Detroit to Saigon, including my own contribution on London.
* For those of you who [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 8 September

I took the Labor Day weekend off from blogging so I could recharge my batteries, by getting out and about in nature. I did several day trips over the weekend, culminating with a hike in the ancient redwood forest of Muir Woods north of San Francisco yesterday. Wonderful!
I’ve spent most of the day catching up [...]

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