Travel Quote: “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be”
From Chuck Thompson’s excellent To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism:If there’s one lesson I’ve prized from my years of travel it’s this: no place is ever as bad as they...
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Sexy Books to Read on the Road: The Dawn of the Deed
Everyone I know brings at least one good book along while traveling, but everyone seems to have a different strategy when choosing their lettered companion. It should be long or it shouldn’t be that...
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The Guidebook Lives On! Arthur Frommer Reacquires Rights to Frommers
Frommers guidebook© Jen GallardoThe travel community was disappointed and dismayed by Google’s recent decision to cease publishing Frommer’s guidebooks, the news that Frommers founder Arthur Frommer...
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“Happy End” Photo Book Documents Decades-Old Plane Crash Sites
Dietmar Eckell is self-publishing a photo book featuring nothing but plane crash photography. He’s visited dozens of crash sites already – some nearly 70 years old. Aptly titled Happy End, the book...
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More of the Potterverse to Materialize in Orlando
© Shockingly Tasty When the Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened in Orlando, I was regaled by young and old with tales of chugging Butter Beer and other Potterian adventures. It sounded like a lot...
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Giant Figure of Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy Surprises Hyde Park Visitors
Join Vagabondish on Twitter and Facebook.Gigantic Mr. Darcy in the Serpentine © TaylorHerring The scene from Pride and Prejudice where Mr. Darcy emerges from the water is a memorable one. Just ask...
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Rolf Potts’ Quintessential ‘Vagabonding’ Celebrates 10th Anniversary with...
Join Vagabondish on Twitter and Facebook.Few books were as critical or inspirational to my embracing the idea of long term travel as Rolf Potts’ Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term...
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5 Questions with Rolf Potts: How Blogging + Social Media Are Changing the Way...
Join Vagabondish on Twitter and Facebook.Few authors have helped to evolve the 21st century backpacker’s “movement” like Rolf Potts. His inimitable work Vagabonding arguably inspired more young people...
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Toronto Bookstore Celebrates the Joy of Randomness
Join Vagabondish on Twitter and Facebook.Book from the BIBLIO-MAT © Steph Spencer Serendipity is a wonderful thing, and it is often the unexpected that gives us the most pleasure. The Monkey’s Paw...
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6 Travel Books Whose Stories & Adventures You Can Follow (in Real Life)
Join Vagabondish on Twitter and Facebook. Where do we find our travel inspiration? Often it is through stories that other people tell us, or features that we browse online. But many times, it can be...
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