Articles tagged with: books
“Does this city of 560,000 inhabitants have enough to offer a visitor? Does it really have to be so pricey? The answer is YES. And NO, not really. But when you take into consideration its fine dining and blissful boozing, its scenic splendors, its potent underground culture and, in particular, its booming live music scene, Oslo is a life-lover’s Garden of Eden, a bountiful feast of immense, sacred proportions. More …
Imagine wandering the streets of your home city in England. Care-free, arms swinging, breezy cool autumn air on your cheeks as you meander through your local park/bus station/coffee shop/museum. And you come across a book.
Alone and just sitting there.
No owner sipping coffee, taking a break from the book they put down, no reader knelt beside it tying their shoelace. A lone book, waiting for a new owner.
Like you.
Sounds suspicious? The perfect …
The e-mail home is an essential part of every traveller’s journey, as when intrepid teenagagers or first time travellers set off to explore deepest darkest Peru it can be a nail-biting time for worried parents.
I was recently gifted a hilarious book called Don’t Tell Mum: Hair-Raising Messages Home From Gap-Year Travellers. It’s a collection of anecdotal emails from first time and inexperienced travellers illustrating that sending an e-mail home doesn’t …
I’m a self confessed book geek and on a good day by the pool I can read 2 or 3 books in a go. Not only does this become an expensive habit to keep me amused when topping up my tan, it also means I sometimes have to sacrifice packing a dress or two in order to make room for my holiday library. That’s why I’m very happy to have my Kindle …
Hey ladies,
as I told you before, I spent last week traveling through 4 German cities presenting some of my photos of Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam as part of an info evening on those countries organized by STA TRAVEL.
The turnout was pretty great and lots of questions were asked, mostly evolving around visa issues, cost, transportation, food or possible risks.
If you’re thinking about traveling to South East Asia, or are simply …
I recently read this collection of short travelling stories compiled by Don George for Lonely Planet, and it was truly inspirational for me to take chances and plunge into the unknown of the world! Some of the funniest experiences can come from when you are running loose in a foreign country and the anthology includes tales from unusual destinations and circumstances.
During my travels, I found that some risks and chances …
When Travelettes first started out, the only blog we could really look up to as far as girl travel was concerned was the Lost Girls blog. Since then, the Lost Girls have come a long way since their blog is now a fancy online magazine with many new contributors.
The original blog authors are Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett and Amanda Pressner, who at age 28, with solid careers in the media …
I never have much time to read, which is unfortunate as I actually really like clouding my mind with romantic trashy novels about true love and unrealistic drama. One of the best parts of backpacking is that you spend so much time in trains, buses and planes that there is never a shortage of opportunity to finish all the chick lit your brain can handle.
Most countries that are popular with …
