I’ve started reading The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux, which I fear will make me even more evangelistic about train travel than I already am. In it, the author (a venerable travel writer to say the least) hops on a train in Boston and rides it (or at least, a [...]
Marcello has always taken extended vacations, but eventually he decided to get away from it all more permanently and left for Sicily. He now travels the world by spending 2-5 months by creating a base and then taking weekend excursions to all the tourist attractions in the area. His current mission is to complete all [...]
Having spent 10 days in Scotland, I’m intrigued. Scotland – like so many other places – is now on my list of destinations to return to, and experience slowly. Here are some of the highlights: Edinburgh: Festival Central The minute I stepped off the train in Edinburgh (by the way, taking trains and ferries all [...]
In England, pub culture is big. I mean, big. When I arrived at the place I was to house-sit in Hampshire, the owners were sure to take me on a mini pub-crawl before they left. And in my orientation of the area, I was informed of the pubs I was to strictly avoid, as well [...]
Here is our motley cast and crew in Paris for the Seven Journeys Project – a television series we’re shooting the pilot episode for. We’ve finished a week in Paris, and are now enroute to Nepal, where we’ll be for the next two weeks. I’m quite excited – and a little nervous (in a good [...]
Craig and Linda Martin have been traveling around the world full time since February 2006. The middle of 2010 finds these two Kiwis on the tracks between Berlin, Germany and Utrecht, Holland while they work on their company, Indie Travel Media Ltd producing websites like Eurail Stories, Must Learn Spanish, Make Money Travel Blogging and [...]
It’s hard to believe that I was in England over a month ago. My trip through Europe has been a whirlwind; a pace much faster than my preferred style of slow travel (staying in each place for a few months or more). But my view is skewed too; in a recent email conversation with a [...]
In the last few months, I’ve had occasion to connect with a handful of people who I’ve initially met on-line, developed relationships with over varying periods of time, and then met in person. I’ve stayed with some of them, met others for coffee, and even house-and-dog-sat for yet others. All of these experiences have been [...]
Guinness rocks. Yes, salutations from Ireland! I’ve been told for years that Guinness beer is “different” (for reasons not entirely scientific or definable) when you drink it in Ireland. And after much skepticism on my part, I can now say that I completely agree. As a generally dubious beer drinker, I am a Guinness convert! [...]
