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Going it Alone - The Pros and Cons of Solo Travel 2007-04-27 14:26:55 To some, the thought of setting off into the unknown with little more than the pack on your back and a good book for company may sound like purgatory, but others wouldn’t want it any other way. So, should you travel solo, or with others?
Both ways have their own merits, yet equally, they both have [...] Read more:Going
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Traveling the Lenca Trail 2007-04-25 13:58:24 Plenty of beauty but little sleep in coffee country. There’s much more to Honduras than the Bay Islands and Mayan Ruins - as I found out during a spectacular week in rural Western Honduras. Read more:Traveling
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Tourismo El Salvador 2007-04-25 13:58:06 Surprisingly accessible yet completely overlooked. Read about one of Central America's best kept secrets in the Land of Volcanoes. Read more:Salvador
How to Keep a Travel Journal 2007-04-25 13:57:56 It goes without saying that memories of trips and vacations fade with time. If you learn how to keep a travel journal, this need not be the case. Read more:Travel
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Preserving Your Travel Experience 2007-04-25 13:57:46 Traveling is a great way to escape the rat race and experience new cultures and places. However, we all get older and memories fade. The best way to prevent this is to keep a travel journal for your trips. Read more:Travel
6 Tips That Will Jumpstart Your Writing Career 2007-04-25 13:57:14 Would you like to establish a career as a freelance writer? Do you dream of writing full-time? Follow these suggestions and your dream could become a reality. Read more:Career
Travel Writing - All You Need to Know 2007-04-25 13:56:25 Travel writings related to essay, guidebook, travelogue or itinerary have overlapping boundaries, so are grouped together as travel literature. This article focuses on travel literature that is more of interest to a tourist. Read more:Travel
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Highway to Hell – Bolivia’s ‘Road of Death’ 2007-04-29 20:49:50 ...This 35 mile arse-clenching artery between La Paz and Coroico - rightfully nicknamed ‘El Camino de la Muerte’, or ‘The Road of Death’ - is estimated to claim the lives of 200-300 users every year... Read more:Highway
, Bolivia
3 Good Reasons to Burn your Guidebook 2007-05-02 13:38:50 We often hear about the dangers associated with foreign travel. Lonely Planet and Rough Guides devote pages to them, and insurance underwriters no doubt get their kids through college on them. But just how much of it is hype? Read more:Reasons
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Live the High Life on a Low Budget 2007-05-04 11:02:59 Do you have Club Class and Caviar taste but only a Skateboards and Sandwiches budget? It matters not. Entering an International Car Rally can cost less than you think. Read more:Low Budget
What Is Freelance Travel Writing? 2007-05-04 09:46:56 Becoming a successful travel writer involves some imagination, some legwork, and a powerful eye for detail to transform the rich experience of a place into a clear, exciting article. If you can do all of that, and if you’re willing to put time into marketing your work, you can join the ranks of successful [...] Read more:Freelance
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Backpacking on Little Money (A Novel) 2007-05-07 15:13:49 It never ceases to amaze me just what the internet can throw up. A couple of months ago I happened on this little gem. Its a work in progress, a Backpacking
Novel by Ethan Zara. Now, the thought of reading a book that has yet to be finished does not hold much appeal to [...] Read more:Money
Avoiding the Shower Menace: Tips For Travelers, not Inmates 2007-05-08 15:15:50 Continuing the current dangers of foreign travel theme, I feel compelled to share with you a common yet lesser documented danger.
I recently posted an article about a certain transport dilemma in Bolivia, and swiftly followed up by questioning the accuracy of cautionary "CYA' captions pasted in so many of our guidebooks. In essence, I [...] Read more:Shower
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, Travelers
Airport Luggage - The Bermuda Triangle Extends 2007-05-15 11:02:56 Since the beginning of time, man has been dreaming of flying. On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright turned that dream into a reality when he flew a plane 120 feet in 12 seconds. Today, with jets cruising at speeds of Mach 0.8 (Mach 1 is the speed of sound), man sits in airport terminal buildings -- "canceled" and "delayed" -- still dreaming of flying. Why is that?
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Travel Writer Jobs - What Are They And How To Find Them 2007-05-24 03:05:52 Travel writing jobs are few and far between. Getting into this field is hard to do and requires a lot of training and experience. But, there are many benefits to them. There are many individuals who would love to get employment opportunities in this field. And, because the world is faster and faster becoming accessible [...]
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Shiny Stuff for Backpackers 2007-05-28 09:37:04 Recently, I was asked to run a profile on www.thisnext.com’s Summer Getaway Guide, and give some recommends for backpackery type items that would come in handy on the road. Since I’m such a good egg, I agreed. And no, of course the chance of gaining a bit of extra publicity for Ubertramp.com didn’t even enter [...]
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5 Cheap Ways to Relive your Travels 2007-06-02 09:46:52 Brendan Moran’s recent Brave New Traveler article ‘The Hardest Part of a Journey is Coming Home‘ got me thinking. I agree that coming back is tough and staying back is even tougher, but there are some things we can do to lessen the culture shock and bring those memories flooding back. Here are 6 [...]
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Pigs in the Toilet: A Serialised Travelogue 2007-06-09 03:11:31 A couple of weeks a go I received an email telling me about a site called Pigs in the Toilet
. With the excessive surfing that I do, how this one stayed under the radar I will never know.
Pigs in the Toilet is a travel “blog-book” that Jeff is publishing online in short, bite-sized instalments. The [...]
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Social Travel Networks: Do We Need Another? 2007-07-06 11:52:56 With the internet running head on into its Web 2.0 phase, we’re seeing social networks popping up all over the shop. A little while ago I even flirted with the idea of jumping on the bandwagon and creating a community aspect on ubertramp.com. But, after seeing just what else was already on offer among the [...]
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And so the Adventure Begins… 2007-07-13 04:45:32
A North African Odyssey has been on the agenda for many a month now, and I’m delighted to announce that the wheels are in motion and the subject matter of my current dream is soon to become a reality. Yep, I’m off to Morocco. –>
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Picks from the Travesphere 2007-07-29 11:03:31 Just recently, Richard, from A Month in Venice, wrote a post detailing a few of his favourite Travel Blogs. He also invited other bloggers to add to this list with their own favourites from the travesphere.
Being indecisive, I couldn’t narrow it down to just one addition so I just had to say what the hell and add a couple from my rather long list of regular reads. Go on, say it – I just don’t care, do I?
My first addition is leaveamerica.info – Worldwide Travel on a Budget, run by the very amiable Nia. Now, I find this particular travel blog appealing as, although it has the dependable theme of travel on the cheap, you never really know what you are going to get next. It’s random. And I like random.
And my second addition? Well, it has to be Stacey’s Rambling Traveler. If you haven’t seen or read it yet, I thoroughly recommend paying a visit to the rambler and enjoy all that is on offer.
As always, I enjoy discovering new travel blogs. One great method of uncovering ne
Marvellous Meknes Market 2007-09-26 17:19:18
I may have been a little hasty in my initial assessment of Meknes. Since the last post we have discovered plenty of good stuff. In addition to the architectural splendour previously mentioned, it’s been the lack of faux guides and the superabundance of fantastic eats that have encouraged us to stay a little longer. The most discernable difference between Meknes and our last stop, Fes, has to be the amount of touts - or should I say the lack of them. Although we’ve become almost immune to the relentless barrage of keen helpers and their offers of cheap rooms, good restaurants and brother’s rug shops, it still comes as a breath of fresh air to be able to disembark from a bus and just saunter into town without having to negotiate a throng of eager guides intent on blagging your Dihrams. The tout-free transit came as a most welcome respite.
The second discovery, and the one I hold closest to my heart, or should I say my stomach, was the impressive variety and quality of Meknes’ ga Read more:Market
Meknes and the Mad, Mad Mulai (Ismail) 2007-09-24 05:31:23
From Fez we took a short 2 hour hop southeast to our second Imperial City, Meknes. To be quite honest, I expected a tad more from a city dubbed the Moroccan Versailles. Quite what I had expected I don’t know, but, from first impressions, it didn’t strike me as a bright, shining star of Moroccan urbanity. (more…)
The Tanneries of Fes 2007-09-22 12:24:06
The commotion that was last night’s sea of pedestrians soon petered out; the alleyways, only a little wider than those of Chefchaouen, quickly became a more manageable affair once we had moved further from Bab el-Mahrouk, one of the main arteries into and out of Fes el-Bali. The downturn in traffic proved quite fortunate, as today would be a big walking day and would see us doing all the touristy things that fervent, committed tourists like ourselves do. It was distinctly plausible that should the streets have been as packed today as they were for a few hours last night (but for the full day, and in about 100 degrees of baking sunshine) then Lauren may have ended up watching a grown man throw a hissy fit and, in a show of unsurpassed frustration and the final throws of wild delirium, toss his hastily melting ice cream to the ground. And no-one needs to see that. Really. (more…)
Fes, Pots, and Palin 2007-09-20 16:34:22
Many years ago, I recall watching Micheal Palin on TV. It was during one of his many incredible solo journeys into wild and unreachable distant lands, a journey, as always, fastidiously documented by his legion of BBC cameramen, sound technicians, and luggage monkeys.
Doin’ the Fes Shuffle 2007-09-19 07:21:58 Moving on from Chefchaouen proved utterly painless. Within an hour of our gentle amble down the hill and to the station, we were on a bus and, by nightfall, were once again battling our way through the heart of another Medina - this time, approximately 4 hours and 120 km or so further south - in our first of the four Imperial cities, the city of Fes. Read more:Shuffle
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