How does one sum up one lone day in a city you never visited before? A tough task.
I touched down in Vancouver at 10.30am on Monday morning. It is my first visit to the west coast of Canada and to this city that’s gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Driving into downtown from the airport, it felt very…
This isn’t Beijing. It’s on the opposite side of the country, as far away as you can get from the major Chinese travel destinations. And if you managed to get here (a feat my friend), without knowing where you were headed you wouldn’t recognize it, or anyone living here, as being associated with China.
We embarked from Kashgar (Kashi) airport into…
I first visited Sarajevo with my parents in 1984 during the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. I recall walking through the cobblestone streets of Baščaršija quarter, as if I’ve walked into a fairytale. I remember savoring the sweetest baklava ever at a cake shop. I recollect staying in a high-rise with friends of my parents, in a tiny apartment with air perennially…
They say that nothing in life is free. It’s true. So although I’m going to tell you how to get your accommodation for free so you can travel your heart out and extend your dollar, don’t expect it to come for nothing.
Instead, you may have to paint murals on the property, or milk goats, or harvest organic ginger, or manage…
When mulling over travel memories, I thought of my 2005 visit to Laos. That spring, I just swam out of a difficult break-up and, in my typical fashion, ran off to Australia and Asia for five weeks of travel therapy. What’s a nomad to do? So I picked up a dear friend who was then living in Sydney and together…
We’re a nation teetering on social burn-out. The multitude of devices designed to bind us together like links in a chain has made it difficult to go to the bathroom and be alone. Articles on efficiency are prolific: how to cut a minute off some task, make your morning shower more efficient, and speed up this or that. And yet…
In the winter of 2006, I visited the island of St Lucia in the West Indies. Today, as I watched the colorful sunset from my Brooklyn apartment, an evening on a terrace in St Lucia came to me. I vividly remembered the sea breeze, rainforest sounds, hummingbirds, the scent of tropical flowers… In honor of that moment, here comes a…
Thought I’d share the latest series of short videos on Croatia that just went up on LonelyPlanet.tv. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I enjoyed shooting them.
Photo “Sea view. Rovinj, Croatia” by akk_rus on Flickr
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My last day in Ulan Ube was leisurely. I was woken at 6am by my current weird sleep pattern problem and read for an hour until a 7am breakfast in the hotel bar. It was not due to get light until 9.30am at the earliest and the temperature was hovering around -30c at this unearthly hour, putting you off going…
I arrived at the Moscow train station at about 8.30pm to meet my two Aussie friends, the ones I met in Tallinn. After an endless queue to get my train tickets (I booked over the internet) we went to the platform and watched our train being shunted in backwards.
We soon made ourselves comfortable and as the train moved off, we…
