Ten Great Travel Twitter Tweets for July

Lists: What makes a good travel tweet? Here are 10 favorites from the past month.

08.04.09 | 10:28 AM ET

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After all the talk about whether to Twitter from the road and how best to go about it, we started keeping an eye out for particularly good travel tweets.

Here, in no particular order, are 10 more memorable tweets from the past month that evoke a sense of place, or that offer some humor or insight about the travel experience.

And if you have a nomination for August in the coming weeks, give us a shout out @worldhum on Twitter, or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) a tip.

@dianakuan
Learning to cross the street Vietnamese-style: Inching forward while 100 scooters swerve at the last minute, like Moses parting the Red Sea

@snolen
Taxi driver in Chennai assures me the clouds of mosquitoes carry “only diabetes, ma’am.” Phew.

@italylogue
Heard our first “eh” today. Finally feels like we’re in Canada.

@leifpettersen
In EWR. Airport idea: switch old Smoking areas to People Traveling With Half a Fried Chicken areas, so hungry intl travelers won’t suffer.

@EmilyMatchar
Discovered what a “Hotel Estilo Canadiense” (Canadian-style hotel) means in Mexico: LOTS of deer heads.

@JJtravels
Just saw a kitchen gadget in the market you don’t see every day: guinea pig roaster.

@alexanderbasek
Going clamming. I usually prefer my bivalves with Muscadet and not a rake and bucket, but such is life.

@nerdseyeview
living in the skyway would be like never leaving the airport.

@EmilyMatchar
Seen today, on the streets of Patzcuaro: Instituto de Belleza Frida Kahlo (Frida Kahlo Beauty School). What do you learn, reverse waxing?

@newley
This Sat. morning Bangkok sunrise is brought to you by a brutal case of west-east jet lag. The best stimulant money can buy.

Tags: Humor, Travel and Technology, Travel Writing, Twitter

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3 Comments for Ten Great Travel Twitter Tweets for July

Marilyn_Res 08.04.09 | 1:48 PM ET

These are great!  I read a funny tweet a few weeks ago and can’t find it now, but someone was on a plane and a 3-yr-old was sitting next to her with her mother, and the little girl kept saying they were going to Mommy’s Ami (Miami!).

jessiev 08.04.09 | 3:32 PM ET

BRILLIANT!! i am laughing.

Love2SeeNewThings 08.04.09 | 4:04 PM ET

Oh, is that where I got my Diabetes from?  The doctors always said they never knew.  ~ LOL ~

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