As part of this past week’s #BlogTripFIB, I had the amazing opportunity to fly in a small plane over the city of Benicassim (one hour north of Valencia, Spain) and take some aerial photos with video blogger extraordinaire Diego Pons of Viajando con Diego. As a self-proclaimed airplane geek, I was thrilled when I received a call from @joantxo offering me the chance to snap some birds-eye-view shots of Benicassim and the FIB festival grounds.

Beginning tomorrow, you’ll be able to follow me as I visit the Land of Valencia in Spain. During my stay, I’ll be tweeting about my adventures as I tour the area and attend the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (FIB Heineken) courtesy of my hosts the Land of Valencia which is the Valencia Regional Tourist Board. In addition to following the @BrilliantTips Twitter stream, you’ll be able to keep track of all the activity on Twitter by viewing …

Beginning next Wednesday, you’ll be able to follow me as I visit the Azores. During my stay, I’ll be tweeting about my adventures as I tour the islands of the Azores, courtesy of my hosts the Portuguese National Tourist Office and SATA – Azores Express. In addition to following the @BrilliantTips Twitter stream, you’ll be able to keep track of all the activity on Twitter by viewing the #VisitAzores stream. Throughout my stay, I’ll also be blogging about things I …

For some crazy reason, I just saw this article for the first time over the weekend. I remember sending a picture to Matador Network just before the #FollowMeAtSea Twitter cruise. I must have then missed this list of 12 travel tweeps since it came out during all of the excitement of the cruise itself. Matador Network’s Travelers Notebook put together a photo essay that included 12 of the faces behind some of the travel tweets they had been curious about. For the record, the photo that I submitted was not …

Here is a list of links to some of the content produced as a result of the Catalunya Experience BlogTrip09. If you have a link you would like me to add to the list, please feel free to contact me.

It was a sincere pleasure to participate in the BlogTrip09, sponsored by Turisme de Catalunya. My role on the blog trip was to have a great time, enjoy a remarkable Catalunya experience and then blog about it on Brilliant Tips from BrilliantTrips.com. Our group consisted of nine travel bloggers, including myself, as well as our hosts Leticia from Bloguzz and Amaia from Turisme de Catalunya.
One of the highlights of the trip was a walking tour around the famous La Boqueria market. While there, we followed our guide who explained how …