Tag: travel
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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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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…