Perhaps best known for its cheap and cheerful curry houses, Brick Lane, in London’s East End, has become an extremely hot spot for the edgy and artistic crowd. Vintage clothing stores, chic boutiques and several of London’s best known night clubs dot the vibrant area. Aside from the great food I relished in during a[…]
Dutch visual storyteller Caspar Diederik has coined a new term: storytraveling. Storytraveling is the art of telling travel stories in a short, visual and catchy way. His latest digital storytelling project, Digital Diary, includes the works of seven different artists who each produced visual stories of their own impressions of Italy’s off-the-beaten-path, southern province of[…]
The Formula 1 World Driving Championship is the pinnacle racing series in all of motor-sports. The championship features the world’s most advanced race cars whose top speeds reach 300 kilometers per hour and are capable of going from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in two seconds. I have been a Formula 1 fan for[…]
Beginning this Monday, I will be in London attending World Travel Market (#WTM2011), the premier global event for the travel industry. During my stay, Tweets about my adventures and various happenings throughout the week will abound. My schedule is growing by the minute, making for a very engaging and productive week. While the primary objective[…]
As part of the #InPyrenees blogtrip, I had the opportunity to meet and have dinner with Skyrunner Kilian Jornet who was very gracious and extremely grounded (no pun intended). Kilian is a hometown hero who grew up in the mountains near Lles de Cerdanya in the Catalan Pyrenees. Until this trip, I had never heard[…]
Impressive photos, dazzling illustrations and the most inspired writing may remain unseen by potential visitors if the web’s most meaningful spiders crawl right by. The idea of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to design your website in a way that will boost its visibility within the rankings of major search engines. To help visualize the[…]
I once asked a group of travel bloggers what they found to be the most frustrating part of having a blog. The most popular response? “Trying to make basic changes to my theme’s style.” During the beginning stages of creating and publishing my blog, I remember often thinking, “for crying out loud! How hard can[…]
I recently joined nine other travel bloggers as part of the #InPyrenees blogtrip sponsored by the Girona Tourism Board to get the real story about the Girona Pyrenees. Starting in Cerdanya (about a two-hour drive from Barcelona, Spain), our group of travel bloggers spent seven days traveling along the Pyrenees mountains until we reached the[…]
Here’s an article from my local newspaper on the early success of Travelllll.com… Travelllll.com, the new online publication for international travel bloggers co-founded by Marblehead resident Rich Whitaker, is a proving to be a big hit with its readers. It has already broken through the 100,000 rank on Alexa.com and is about to break through[…]
This past week, while in Cerdanya (a region of the eastern Pyrenees which is divided between France and Spain), I had the opportunity to head up in a small plane for a spectacular scenic look at the beautiful landscape of the Cadi mountain range and the Pyrenees. My flight from La Cerdanya Aerodrome took me[…]