Last week, I wrote that Google, the new-ish owner of Frommer’s, had stopped publishing the guide books. I also wrote about how much I value physical guide books, the kind that made of paper. (I used Frommer’s Seville Day By Day on my trip to Spain.) With the exception of Canada, I’ve never traveled to […]
UPDATE: Arthur Frommer bought back Frommer’s and plans to publish the books again. Read more here. Frommer’s guide books will no longer be printed, reported Skift on Thursday, March 21, 2013. Google, bought Frommer’s from Wiley for $22 million last August, and has now decided to stop publishing the books. This makes me sad because […]
There’s a new viral video on YouTube that gives you a very quick tour of the U.S. This guy walks across America (NYC to San Francisco) in under two minutes, rarely pausing except to admire the Lincoln Monument and Mt. Rushmore. OK, so maybe it’s a stealth ad for Levi, but it’s still pretty cool. […]
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Is Sea Life Oberhausen on your itinerary for your trip to Germany? What, you’re not even planning to make a pilgrimage to this industrial, northwestern German city? But it’s home to Paul the Psychic Octopus! Paul’s claim to fame is that he predicted eight out of eight World Cup wins — one for every arm. […]
When I made Switzerland a stop in my post-college backpacking spree 10 years ago, I was immediately impressed by how clean, beautiful and orderly it is. I went to Leysin, Interlaken and Lucerne. I didn't make it to Zurich, which is apparently so lovely that on Sunday a circus elephant escaped just to take a […]
(photo by Daniele Sartori/flickr) First it was The Bachelor. Now it's America's Next Top Model. New Zealand just can't stop hosting American reality TV shows!
When I was in Wales in September, I loved seeing dragon symbols everywhere — so much so that I bought a dragon Christmas ornament as souvenir. I don’t recall thinking that what the country really needed was an gigantic, red-tinted bronze dragon statue. But now that the announcement has been made that they’re building Waking […]
The approach of the end of the year means many things, including that it's list time. The media is making lists to sum up 2009 and to predict what will happen in 2010. Conde Nast Traveler has gone the prediction route with The 2010 It List, which crowns the 10 new hot spots for next […]
When I was in Northern California in April, I simply couldn't get enough of seals/sea lions. Any time I was by the coastline, I was hoping to hear barking and see some blubbery seals sunning themselves. I'm not quite sure how my obsession got started (most likely from frequent trips to the Central Park Zoo […]
