“Have fun, will travel… - Reuters Blogs (blog)” plus 2 more |
- Have fun, will travel… - Reuters Blogs (blog)
- Perry Garfinkel: Saving the Lakes of Udaipur, "World's Best City" - AlterNet
- Travel + Leisure Names *Us* a Top Site of the Year - The Faster Times
| Have fun, will travel… - Reuters Blogs (blog) Posted: 05 Nov 2009 07:18 AM PST Blog Guy, I just read a great Travel and Leisure magazine article titled "Top Travel Websites of 2009," and do you KNOW what I found? Yes. My blog is mentioned there, and by the magazine's Executive Editor, no less.
My lawyer says they would have a pretty good legal case against me. But if you think about it, I have a TRAVEL tag, and offer a veritable cesspool of useful travel information you won't find anywhere else. I've exposed the so-called gyrocopter, bad budget airlines in Tibet and other cheap flight plans. I've written about the most important travel concern of all, foreign toilets. I've tipped off readers to spots they might never know about, like the statue to enemas, the penis museum of Iceland, Zebra Land, the "other" Taj Mahal, travel packages to Hannibal Lecter's hometown…. Heck, I've even warned you about the Hell on Earth list. For foodies, I've covered bull's penis and testicles in Bolivia, the blood soup bistro in Vietnam, South Korean shrimp cracker snacks, and that little place where the head chef makes, well, heads… Since it seems to be an important factor for lots of my readers, I've even offered lists of travel spots where they're sure not to run into ME, like the You Must be Joking tourist site and the Don't Wait for me out on the Ledge destination… And for anyone who STILL doubts my contribution to contemporary travel, five words: Goofy Face Museum and Doughnut Shop! Be somebody! Join the Oddly Enough blog network Follow this blog on Twitter at rbasler Obscure headline reference: 1950s TV show "Have Gun Will Travel" Photos: Bikinis on an Australian beach, the gyrocopter, and riding in Hefei… This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Perry Garfinkel: Saving the Lakes of Udaipur, "World's Best City" - AlterNet Posted: 05 Nov 2009 01:15 PM PST UDAIPUR, Rajasthan - Life has brought many advantages to Arvind Singh Mewar, not the least of which is an unobstructed view overlooking Lake Pichola from his palace terrace here, the city Travel & Leisure readers recently voted best in the world. Now more than the view -- the lake itself -- could join the cheetah and other species on India's endangered or extinct list unless he and others can spearhead a reversal of the lake's misfortunes.
As current head of the Maharana clan that founded the Rajasthani city in 1568 and soon after developed what geographers have identified as the world's first man-made micro-system of river diversion, linkage and watershed management, Mewar is among the major local stakeholders concerned with protecting the string of lakes from increasing pollution and depletion. While over the last 15 years some 14 local environmental groups have attempted to preserve the waters, some even filing lawsuits against local and state governing boards, lake conservation has been slow to nonexistent to backward. "There's too much political finger-pointing and not enough problem solving," said Mewar, who owns HRH Hotels, a collection of 12 Rajasthan properties converted from family... Click here to read the entire article... This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Travel + Leisure Names *Us* a Top Site of the Year - The Faster Times Posted: 02 Nov 2009 03:37 AM PST That's right, folks. I don't quite know how it happened, and I only wish I'd thought of it, so I could have paid someone off, but Travel + Leisure magazine, arguably the nation's travel bible, has named The Faster Times Travel Section a Top Travel Web site of 2009, just under Yelp.com. From the writeup:
How meta is it to include a link to your site from another site in a page on your site? Forgive me. More important is that T+L's Top Travel site feature also links you to some Web resources the may fly under the radar. Thank you, T+L, and welcome, T+L readers! More on these topics: This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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