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Travel insurance and tour operators going out of business

This article talks about how one UK travel company, Goldtrail Travel, stopped doing business a few days ago. Some travelers got stranded and other found themselves with ruined summer vacation plans. The good news is that in Europe everyone is...

Question on NYC short term apartment rentals

Reader question: I am planning to come to New York next month. I started looking for hotels and found them quite expensive even on Hotels.com, hotwire and priceline. I looked at Craigslist and saw vacation rentals of apartments quoting daily...

5 day New York City travel plan

This one was written by a Hankuk University of Foreign Studies student for some extra credit. Five days in New York City by Bo Kyung Kim New York City is one of the biggest cities in the world and everybody...

New York to destroy about 170,000 geese

This blog talks about how New York wants to reduce the number of Canadian Geese in the state from 250,000 to 85,000. The plan is to clear out the geese near airports. Considering that geese brought down US Airways...

JetBlue's cruise sweepstakes

JetBlue has a sweepstakes for 10 free cruises. I didn't know JetBlue was heavily invested in the cruise industry and I guess the point of their sweepstakes is to get the word out.We're celebrating JetBlue's 10th Anniversary by giving away...

How I would create a Canada road trip / NHL hockey vacation plan

I recently received a question about how to design a travel plan to road trip around Canada stopping in hockey cities. I don't think we're looking for an actual travel plan but I can talk a little about how you...

Italy: The Pleasures of A Simple Life

In 1994, Michael Radford directed the movie Il Postino, a simple, heartwarming story of friendship between the unassuming mailman and the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, while living in political exile in southern Italy. A famous poet and an unsophisticated village...

Is traveling to a happy country inherently different than traveling to a less happy one?

The other day I talked about debate and travel and mentioned that I had just judged a debate. This article and this slideshow reminded me of that. It's an article on the happiest countries in the world and many are...

Any debaters here? Can debate make for a good travel experience / job?

I had debate on the mind today because I just finished judging the elimination rounds of the YTN-HUFS youth debate championship. YTN is a Korean news channel. HUFS is Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. About a month ago I went...

Anyone here recommend Groupon?

So I just signed up for Groupon.com after my sister recommended it. What they do is get group discounts by ordering in bulk. So they have a special deal like a Ferrari driving experience in Boston (my sister got this...

Link to some pics of a motorcycle trip in the Himalayas

I don't have much to write today but I do have some pictures to share so I'll let them do the talking. I wish I had taken them, but I've never been to the Himalayas and when I do go...

Seen any unique performances in your travels?

Over the past few days friends have been sending me videos of some fun performances. I'm wondering if in your travels any of you have been in the right place at the right time to see an unforgettable performance. These...

Maisan & Busan

As we near the end of my sister's visit to Korea, I realize that I've been lagging behind in my reports. Our second day in Jinju we spent on Maisan (Mai Mountain or Horse-Ear Mountain). Here, there is a very...

A day in Jinju

We spent the day in Jinju, which in Korea is considered a small city with a repuation for being pretty conservative. We started off with a great breakfast prepared mostly by my mother-in-law that consisted of rice and a bunch...

Staying flexible regarding my sister's Korean travel experience

So we wended up shuffling things around a lot more than we had planned. Monday morning we really did walk around my university and the neighboring one. We then stopped for some "Korean pancakes" (pajun) near Hoegi subway station. It...

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