Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 17 August

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 [...]

Coffee in Nicaragua

Caitlin Fitzsimmons explores the coffee country of Nicaragua – the ‘land of lakes and volcanoes’. On the old coffee farms of Nicaragua, some things never change. The farmer, a cowboy hat on his head and a whip in hand, rides his horse. The giant wooden water wheels mill the ripe coffee cherries. The farm hands [...]

Best of the web: Travel inspiration

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. [...]

Photo Friday: Nicaraguan guy on horseback

Jinotega, Nicaragua; March 2008 In rural parts of Nicaragua it’s still common to get around by horse or donkey. This picture was taken in the town of Jinotega in the north central mountains of Nicaragua, in the heart of the coffee regions. The man – one of many we saw on horseback almost everywhere except [...]

The best of 2008

The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Photo Friday: Catholic taste A hilarious religious painting from the Prado in Madrid, Spain. Popular with Google searches for the term ‘Catholic taste’. 9. Colonial grandeur of the American Granada Beautiful Spanish colonial architecture in Granada, Nicaragua. 8. Guest post: Sleeping around Angela [...]

Carnival of Cities: From Carcassonne to Miami

I’m delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities for a second time on Roaming Tales. This is the 30 April edition and we have a bumper crop of great posts. We seem to be confined to North (and Central) America and Europe this week, though we still have a lot of diversity, from Carcassonne [...]

Colonial grandeur of the American Granada

Like its famous namesake, Granada in Nicaragua is worth visiting for its relaxed atmosphere and beautiful historic architecture. It might not have the Alhambra but the streets are lined with Spanish colonial buildings in vibrant colours, from blue to cherry red. The town was founded in 1524 and the town has kept its historic flavour, [...]

My month as Phileas Fogg

I didn’t need 80 days to travel around the world but the last month still feels pretty epic. Since leaving London in early March, I have been to eight countries on four continents. First stop was Australia, where I spent a couple of weeks visiting friends and family in and around Sydney and Brisbane. I [...]

Around the world in 80 tastes

With my Phileas Fogg cap on, I have hit the road for a month. It’s a mammoth world trip, combining Australia, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. Nicaragua was obviously a detour but it’s for work so a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! All this has left me with plenty to [...]

Welcome to Nicaragua

Things work a little differently in Nicaragua, at least when it comes to officialdom. Scene 1: Border control The immigration officer checks my passport and asks for $US5 for the on-the-spot visa. This takes me slightly by surprise since I had been told there was no visa but thankfully I still have some US currency [...]

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