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The Paris Greeters: Helping Dispell Notions of ‘Inhospitable Locals’

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Vagrant Ruminations of a Compulsive Traveler

Where does the urge to hunt for that “fleeting fix of elsewhere” come from? Peter Wortsman recalls a life of travel inspiration. 

Rolf Potts: Revelations from a Postmodern Travel Writer

His new book “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” includes his best stories from the past 10 years. Michael Yessis asks him how travel writing has changed in the last decade—and what he sees for the future.

Notes From an Unofficial Tourist Greeter

Summer is over, and so is Julia Ross‘ season as an ambassador to travelers in Washington, D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood. She’s happy to be off duty.

10 Great Travel Race Movies

Slow travel is well and good. But there’s something irresistible about a great travel race movie. World Hum Travel Movie Clubbers Eva Holland and Eli Ellison share their favorite vicarious thrill rides.

Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

Travel Writers and the ‘City Movies’ They Love

Thanks for posting, Eva. Interesting lists, all. I wholeheartedly agree with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but would add In the Mood for Love, Lost in Translation, Before Sunset, and City of God. Also, Rolf makes a good point about Alexander Payne’s movies set in the Midwest-- a region that few filmmakers seem to get right.

Nice clip Eva, I forgot about that part in the museum.

Lots more place-based movie suggestions here, in the Cinematic Road Trip series by John Ur on Intelligent Travel, which is exploring movies in all 50 states:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/screening_room/index.html

I don’t usually like his movies that much but PT Anderson “gets” the light of the San Fernando Valley absolutely spot on, especially in Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

I’d have to say ‘When Harry Met Sally’. The scene at Katz’s Deli is immortal.

The Third Man - I’ve love the filming of Vienna in that movie even after spending so much time in that great city.

Great topic.  Other films that spring to mind are “Indochine” about Hanoi/Saigon (with Catherine Deneuve, to boot) and “L.A. Confidential” which nailed 1950s Los Angeles.