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Travel less, connect more
“I’ve been to something like 98 countries”, said the seasoned traveller, dusting off a well-worn passport.
“OK, so, who’s the most memorable person you met in your travels?
“Met? What do you mean, ‘met’? I didn’t actually meet anyone!”
If this mini-dialogue makes you squirm uncomfortably, then congratulations! You’ve just joined the ranks of [...]
From onlooker to change-maker
Travel writing is dead. So say many. Ralph Waldo Emerson went so far as to say: “Travel is a fool’s paradise.” Or as Foreign Policy magazine writer Graeme Wood puts it, “travel is a sickness that afflicts those who don’t realize that wisdom is inward. Instead of broadening the mind, travel narrows it.”
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Reverse travel: a visit to Villawood
Those of us privileged to travel overseas and enjoy the hospitality of others should spare a thought for those for whom travel is not a luxury but a necessity. I refer to those called “asylum seekers” – refugees from conflict, war and civil strife.
Virginia Walker, 73 years old and still a dynamo of determination, has become [...]
Travel blogging seminar
Advice on Travel Blogging from Caz and Craig Makepeace
Some excellent advice on travel blogging was delivered by Caz and Craig Makepeace yesterday, at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society of Travel Writers, held in Rotorua (New Zealand). Catch their web/blogsite at http://www.ytravelblog.com/, and also check out their Twitter [...]
Cerebral Parsley
My esteemed colleague Bob Fisher, long-time educator and former board member of the Travel Media Association of Canada, has asked me to comment on his pathbreaking post Unconscious Travelling: More than Meets the Eye (see below).
Bob Fisher has given us a most thought-provoking essay. In fact, it is more than just thought provoking. It is ser [...]
Do travellers need to take lessons?
Seen the TV series An Idiot Abroad? It makes me cringe – but only because I know this is exactly the way I’ve behaved in the past.
I remember arriving at the ferry terminal in Surat Thani, in Thailand. I thought I’d walked into a time-warp. Here were a whole bunch of “freaks” looking as I had been trying to look twenty year [...]
Travel Writer William Dalrymple expla...
In an interview published in Britain’s prestigious The Economist magazine, leading travel writer William Dalrymple explains his trade. Dalrymple says that travel literature still remains relevant in this era of cheap flights and Google Earth.
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Dispatches from the Red Centre
After heavy rains in February-March and again in early July 2011, Central Australia is carpeted in wildflowers. Bushwalkers in the “Red Centre” are now rewarded with a vista of brilliant cobalt skies over flower-studded oxide-red earth, the air redolent with the honey-sweet aroma of Pukara (Desert Heath Myrtle) and a vast nature-bouquet of ot [...]
India’s first casino
India’s first live casino has just opened in Gangtok, capital of Sikkim.
“In order to avoid fraudulent practices, dealers will be changed every twenty minutes,” said a spokesperson for the casino.
Maybe gamblers should be changed every twenty minutes, too.
Check out Graham’s story from Sikkim: Mountains, Monasteries and Mach [...]
Around the World with 40 Travel Blogg...
Around the World with 40 Travel Bloggers: a free Lonely Planet E-book
Besides the excellent content, check out the cutting-edge layout and design of this E-book!
Here’s what the blog GINGER BEIRUT has to say about the Lonely Planet E-book:
“It’s finally here: the very first project produced by an amazing group of travel bloggers, [...]
Assorted rubbish from a travel writer...
THE GREAT TRAVEL WRITER
“When I was about 22 or 23”, said the self-proclaimed travel writer, “I set out from home to see the world. It took me a long time to go no-where. I saw nothing, felt nothing and experienced nothing, and when I got home I wrote a book about my encounters”.
I travelled in search of myself. Then I thought I’d found mysel [...]
Top Travel blogs for May 2011
Here are the top TRAVEL BLOG SITES
as ranked by TopTravelBlogs.com on May 11, 2011:
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Travel and the built environment
The pathbreaking BLDBLOG, dedicated to “Architectural conjecture , urban speculation and landscape futures”, offers a huge range of links exploring the connection between travel experiences and the built environment. Here are just a few:
Time, Photography and Spatial devices
Islands at the Speed of Light
Unsolving the city
A V [...]
Guest blogger Bob Fisher of Canada
Canadian Bob Fisher - travel journalist, former teacher and marketing manager with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – specialises in writing about the role of travel writers as educators.
“While there are many travel sites, few question ‘why’ we travel”, says Brandon Wilson of Pilgrim’s Tales Publishing “Bob Fisher [...]
Veteran Indonesian journalist starts ...
Veteran Indonesian journalist Wimar Witoelar, still Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Melbourne’s Deakin University, has been banned from most Indonesian media – so he started up his own blog. Check it out!
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