Destination: Europe
Photo You Must See: Catching Air in Switzerland
by World Hum | 11.06.09 | 12:07 PM ET
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse A snowboarder performs a jump during a halfpipe event at the Snowboard World Cup in Saas Fee, Switzerland.
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Yahoo! Buzz‘Ivory Coast = France = Japan’
by Michael Yessis | 11.06.09 | 10:02 AM ET
That equation comes from a James Fallows post in the Atlantic, and he’s talking about language habits.
That is: in France and Japan, the deep-down assumption is that the language is pure and difficult, that foreigners can’t really learn it, and that one’s attitude toward their attempts is either French hauteur or the elaborately over-polite and therefore inevitably patronizing Japanese response to even a word or two in their language. “Nihongo jouzu! Your Japanese is so good!”
World Travel Watch: Protests in Nepal, Tensions in Nicaragua and More
by Larry Habegger | 11.05.09 | 7:47 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Following Chekhov to ‘Hell’
by Robert Reid | 11.04.09 | 10:41 AM ET
Photo by Robert Reid On Sakhalin Island, Robert Reid communes with the world's first "Gulag tourist"
Photo You Must See: London’s Oxford Circus From Above
by World Hum | 11.03.09 | 11:47 AM ET
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth Double-decker buses pass through the diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus in London. The new design was inspired by Tokyo’s Shibuya crossing.
Mapped: The U.S. Interstates, in the Style of the London Underground Map
by Michael Yessis | 11.03.09 | 10:21 AM ET
See it in Senex Prime’s Flickr stream. (Via Coudal)
Fall Foliage Around the World
by Alicia Imbody | 11.03.09 | 10:16 AM ET
From Osaka to Chicago, seven photos of turning leaves around the shrinking planet
World Travel Watch: Monster Shark Off Australia, Deadly Driving Games in Bulgaria and More
by Larry Habegger | 10.29.09 | 10:44 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Edinburgh Castle’ by Mike Scott
by Jim Benning | 10.28.09 | 4:11 PM ET
How I Pack for Europe
by Rick Steves | 10.27.09 | 12:00 PM ET
Pack light. One bag. Carry on. This is your mantra. (And no, you can't hear and repeat this enough times.)
Two Cheers for Gloom
by Tom Swick | 10.26.09 | 11:17 AM ET
Contemplating and celebrating the world of travel
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Paris’ By Yael Naim
by Jim Benning | 10.23.09 | 2:28 PM ET
World Travel Watch: Dengue in Nicaragua, Instability in Bosnia and More
by Larry Habegger | 10.23.09 | 12:11 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
London’s Heathrow: The Worst Airport in the World?
by Eva Holland | 10.21.09 | 2:02 PM ET
Poor Heathrow. It’s taken the title in a passenger poll for the second year in a row. Charles de Gaulle, LAX, Frankfurt and Miami rounded out the bottom five.
Interview With Nicholas Kristof: Traveling and Tweeting Under ‘Half the Sky’
by David Frey | 10.21.09 | 10:53 AM ET
Photo by Fred R. Conrad David Frey asks the author about his dream vacation, Twitter, travel to hellholes and the trip that changed his life
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