Category: travel
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Where the Hell is Matt… Again
Where the Hell is Matt… again. The third video, available in HD. Featuring Zero-G Matt, no less! 14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me. All of Matt’s videos can be found on his YouTube Channel, and WhereTheHellIsMatt.com via Link Banana
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Japan Travel
Hoping to have an extended visit to Japan in the near future? You may be as pleased as I was when I stumbled upon a site offering 10 Japanese Customs You Must Know Before a Trip to Japan. A perfect compliment to Tim Ferriss’ Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo for Less Than New York (part two).…
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5 Years On the Road – A Hitchhiking Story
Ludovic Hubler is a Frenchman who, in 2003, set off around the world with one goal – to travel all of it by hitchhiking. This is it ! The circle has finally been closed. 5 years, passed day by day since leaving the Alps, and now here I am back at my point of departure,…
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Tips on Mini-Retirements from Tim Ferriss and JD Roth
How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks from Timothy Ferriss is the first part of a two-part interview between JD Roth (of the excellent personal finance site, Get Rich Slowly) and he of 4HWW fame, Timothy Ferriss. There’s an apt quote in the interview on something I’m currently struggling with: The hardest part is…
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Travelling Light
I’ve had Tim Ferriss’ post on How to travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less (that’s lbs, not £s) bookmarked for a while now, waiting for a good reason to post it here. One has now arisen. An NPR story called How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag has created a slew…
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Documenting a Road Trip
My travel buddies (as I’ve now decided to call them) and I have decided to do a US road trip… probably in 2010. It will be a coast-to-coast affair highly influenced, no doubt, by this great time-lapse and Dave Gorman’s latest adventure. I can’t wait, but common sense says that I/we must. This morning I’ve…
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Remove Tourists from Your Photos
Holidaying soon? Avid photographer? Get annoyed by ‘tourists’ ruining your otherwise perfect pictures? Thanks to a Google Reader glitch this morning that has set the last two years worth of Lifehacker posts as unread, I’ve just spotted a wonderful post from dsphotographic on removing those pesky humans from your otherwise great photos. Every notable landmark…
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Travelling on a Shoestring
I’m pretty sure we’re all agreed that travelling the world is a great thing to do. And when you can do it on a frugal budget (not a cheap one), it’s even better! That makes Plonkee’s latest post, 21 Resources for Budget Travel great in every respect – links galore! take the train, not the…
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The Man in Seat Sixty-One
The Man in Seat Sixty-One has been one of my favourite travel websites for a few years now – it contains all the information you could ever hope to know about train travel around the world. Along with WikiTravel, this is an indispensable travel website: you’ll never buy an out-of-date travel book again! Many people…