Aug 9th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Imagine renting a seaside studio in the South of France. Each morning, you throw open the windows of your balcony to a jaw-dropping view of the seaside village below, punctuated by tiny sailboats and the luminous yellow-orange glow of the early morning sun. If this was your vision, it's been fulfilled by Flickr user Michael Joseph Goldst ...etc. My favorite element of this image is the sunlight - ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Aug 9th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Imagine renting a seaside studio in the South of France. Each morning, you throw open the windows of your balcony to a jaw-dropping view of the seaside village below, punctuated by tiny sailboats and the luminous yellow-orange glow of the early morning sun. If this was your vision, it's been fulfilled by Flickr user Michael Joseph Goldst ...etc. My favorite element of this image is the sunlight - ...History's Most Famous Travel Adventures
Feb 20th, 2009 at 8:32AM: There is no doubt that history has a level of influence on the places that many of us visit. We read about far off places and exotic adventures, and it fires our own imaginations, sometimes compelling us to take a journey of our own, and experience the things that we've dreamed about. Forbes Traveler has put together an excellent list of the greatest travel adventures from history, not only ...Send your friends and loved ones away
Dec 28th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Travel is a tough gift to give. You need to know the recipient pretty well to make sure your well-intentioned effort doesn't turn into a disaster. Could you imagine sending a wealthy friend through budget hotels in Romania? Or, putting a cities-only person on a beach for two weeks? The possibility for disaster is infinite. But, if you put some thought into it, your gift of a trip can be a big hit. ...Group vacations - French villas are hot!
Nov 7th, 2008 at 1:30PM: Want to make all your friends swoon? Rent out a villa in the south of France for an affordable, peaceful vacation. Want to make all your friends love you? Take them along! French villas have become one of the top destinations in the great tradition of group vacations. I love group vacations; it's like an extended party. Get everyone you like together and watch them interact for a week. It's ...Libya: A new place to head in your travels
Oct 21st, 2007 at 1:01PM: When I was in the Peace Corps one of my Gambian friends moved to Libya for some reason. This was back when the U.S. and Libya weren't on the best of terms. I wasn't ever sure why he went to Libya--all I know is that, once he went there, his wife and kids moved back to live with her mother and I didn't see him again. I only saw his family one other time.
Brett mentioned in a September post that ...Cannes Cam 2007
May 18th, 2007 at 1:46PM:
Can't make it to Cannes this year? Me either. But that's okay -- The IFC's website is streaming a live video feed from a camera hovering over the red carpet at Grand Théâtre Lumière at the Palais. According to IFC, "Most film premieres take place around 7pm and 10pm local time, or 1pm/4pm ET," but action on the carpet is dead right now (save for a few birds and honking ...One for the Road: Mediterranean Summer
May 18th, 2007 at 11:02AM: After four years of intense internships at restaurants in Provence and Italy, American chef David Shalleck was debating a return to the US when an interesting opportunity presented itself. A wealthy Italian couple challenged him to serve as chef aboard their yacht for five months, using only local ingredients from port cities and never once repeating a meal for the couple and their guests on ...Catalonia - Too Cool For Spain
Sep 6th, 2006 at 12:24PM: Blogging from Blanes, Catalonia: A sun-drenched, beautiful, Mediterranean coastal area of Spain, Catalonia still thinks it is too cool for Spain. A friend who has lived here for 8 years says that the Catalans consider themselves the hard-working ones, whereas the Southerners are supposed to be the slackers. (Californians - sounds familiar?) He says they are all equally relaxed about getting ..."Dream fish" poisons two diners in Mediterranean
Apr 19th, 2006 at 4:36PM: For all you gutsy travelers who feel that you have to taste the local specialties in order to truly know a place,
here's a story to keep in mind. Two diners in the western Mediterranean recently suffered intense hallucinations and
digestive problems after eating Sarpa Salpa, a type of Indo-Pacific reef fish (right). According to an article in Practical Fishkeeping, the LSD-like
hallucinations from ...
