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

Carnival of Cities - A blog carnival about cities and towns

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 [...]

Photo Friday: Ghosts of an artistic past in Detroit

Detroit, USA; October 2005 These days Detroit is often put forward as the poster child of urban decline, but it wasn’t always this way. Back in the days of Motor City, it was quite the place to be. Although it’s thought of as an industrial city, the wealth from the car industry helped support a [...]

Best of the web: From rose petal sorbet to Thai restaurants in London

* Lydia from The Perfect Pantry presents the vanilla bean and shares a delicious looking pear and vanilla recipe. I’m loving the series – earlier it was rose petal risotto, which sounds amazing! * Antonia from Food, Glorious Food serves up chicken with ginger marmalade. It sounds great… though I think it would be even [...]

Best of web: Kraków, airlines, box hotels, shoes, Sea World, Amsterdam, female-only beaches

* On my foodie site The Gooseberry Fool, I share my dining experiences in Kraków, Poland. * Kim at Wild About Writing + Travel shares her top 10 things to do in Havana, Cuba. * On Sheila Scarborough’s new and improved family travel site, now at its new home at FamilyTravelLogue, she reminds us of [...]

Guest post from Manzanillo, Mexico: Tides of Time

This is a guest post from Stephen from Manzanilloblog. Stephen describes himself and his wife Tiffani as “chronic travellers”, who’ve recently made the leap and left the US to live in beautiful Manzanillo, Mexico. They are loving the experience so far and started the blog to share their discoveries, adventures, and hard earned lessons with [...]

Carnival of Cities: From Thai in Vermont to Chai in Dubai

I’m pleased to be hosting the Carnival of Cities on The Gooseberry Fool for the first time. Since this is a food blog, I was especially keen for posts with a culinary connection and I wasn’t disappointed. I hope you enjoy this week’s menu. * Gray at SoloFriendly on great Thai restaurants in her hometown [...]

UN of food: Mexican at Taqueria

Everyone is familiar with Mexican food in some guise but usually what we get in the English speaking world and Europe is actually Tex-Mex – an Americanised version of Mexican food. I’m told that nachos, for example, is not traditional in Mexico, that the burritos are usually smaller and skimpier on the fillings, and that [...]

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