- 10 February 2010
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘US$10 luge lessons’
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
The Olympics debut this weekend in Vancouver, and — alas — so will follow the stream of luge jokes. Like this one. Hey now, if luge is good enough for Dr Evil, it should be good enough for us all.
If you want to luge, here are some places to try it:
Winterberg, Germany. The bobsled track…
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Traveller interview
markbroadhead Lonely Planet author
The Traveller Interview group asks travellers about their best and worst travel experiences.
Recently minnesota_trekker gave great answers to a load of questions. Here is a sample:
Question: Seven Wonders of the World? What are your seven wonders, natural or human-made (that you’ve seen)?
minnesota_trekker: In no specific order: 1: The relics of ancient Egypt. 2: The relics of…
- 9 February 2010
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Best US ski slopes
admin Lonely Planet author
With the Winter Olympics dominating British Columbia’s best skiing starting this weekend, we thought we’d look just south to the USA’s best ski slopes. (Apologies to the slopes of upstate New York or Vermont out east, but the best US skiing is a truly Western matter.)
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Big, fast, deep — Jackson Hole is not…
- 5 February 2010
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Our new magazine in India!
VivekW Lonely Planet author
February marks an exciting milestone for Lonely Planet. For the first time ever, we are launching a publication specially tailored for Indian travellers: the Indian edition of Lonely Planet Magazine.
As a native Indian, I’m very excited by this development – and not just because Saif Ali Khan dropped by to help with the launch. We…
- 3 February 2010
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Bed-Stuy, do!’
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
It’s Black History Month in the USA and Canada, and to celebrate we at the SSSTS visited Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the city’s most famous African-American neighborhoods. It’s an area still trying to shed its dated ‘Bed-Stuy, Do or Die’ image — as shown in Chris Rock’s ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ TV show set in the…
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Holden’s Central Park ducks’
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
JD Salinger died yesterday, and many are remembering the reclusive New York writer through his most famous character: Holden Caulfield. (This is the best article on Holden’s New York.)
In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden offers an immortal two-day walking tour of New York City in December 1949. The scene that stands out the most…
- 30 January 2010
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Free PDF: ‘Tracing Martin Luther King, Jr’ itinerary
admin Lonely Planet author
To kick off Black History Month in the USA and Canada this February, we’re offering this free PDF ‘Tracing Martin Luther King, Jr’ — a classic trip across the American south that follows the civic rights leader’s road from Atlanta to that fateful day in Memphis.
* For more itinerary ideas across the south, see…
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Sand makes the beach’
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
SAND LOVERS!
Do we agree on what a ‘dream beach’ is? My friend Assen in Sofia, Bulgaria, prefers the quiet, rocky cliffs in northeastern Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast to the soft sandy ones in the center and south. Dennis Adams, a historian at South Carolina’s Beaufort County Library, wrote an interesting overview of where sand comes…
- 26 January 2010
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Machu Picchu: tourists unable to leave, landslides, Inca Trail closed
Tom Hall Lonely Planet author
Heavy rain and landslides in the Cuzco and Machu Picchu areas have, according to reports, left tourists unable to leave the area. Up to 2,000 visitors to the Inca site have begun to be airlifted back to Cuzco from Aguas Calientes after the railway line became blocked by up to forty landslides.
The Inca Trail had,…
- 23 January 2010
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European Capital of Culture: cities face-off
Tom Hall Lonely Planet author
Europe’s Capital of Culture selections are nothing if not eclectic. The idea behind designating cities with this honour is to highlight the cultural life and development of a place. Usually, it gives the place in question a few extra visitors, too. Maybe you’re one of them?
In some cases being Capital of Culture takes somewhere well-known…
