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Tuesday May 22, 2012

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  • Better ways to have fun in Cartagena - Lonely Planet (Friday, 27 April) - Cartagena, Colombia has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past weeks, in the wake of a scandal implicating a group of US Secret Service agents alleged to have hired prostitutes while on the job. Earlier this week, we were amused to see The Daily Show‘s...
  • When should you use a travel agent? - Lonely Planet (Thursday, 26 April) - That tiresome argument between what makes a ‘traveler’ different from a ‘tourist’ is sometimes split along the lines that the latter used a travel agent. A tourist goes where he or she’s led by an agent or package tour, the traveler does it all on your own. Yeah, well… While...
  • Does sharing make travel better? A guest post from Airbnb - Lonely Planet (Wednesday, 25 April) - Do the joys of sharing enhance your travels? Photo by Judy Bellah This is a guest post from Vivek Wagle at social accommodation service Airbnb. The idea of sharing space is nothing new. From way back when grunting Neanderthals decided that being cavemates was preferable to clubbing each others’ brains...
  • US National Parks week 2012: where to go when the parks are free - Lonely Planet (Monday, 16 April) - It’s April, so it’s time once again for one of the most tempting deals in American travel: National Park Week. Each of the 397 parks in the National Park System is offering free admission to visitors from April 21-29. The US National Parks are a bargain at any price, and...
  • World Food: the winning picture - Lonely Planet (Tuesday, 10 April) - We have spent the holiday break reviewing all the submissions to our World Food Facebook picture competition and we are ready to announce the winner! We were very impressed with the array of foods and dishes that you have snapped in your travels – our stomachs were grumbling by the...
  • Google’s smart glasses: ‘Project Glass’ for travellers - Lonely Planet (Wednesday, 4 April) - For a few months the tech world has been buzzing about Google’s work on Terminator-style smart glasses. Today, Google released a video (see below) showing their vision of the potential of such a product, which they’re currently calling ‘Project Glass’: taking photos, getting directions, checking the weather and making a...
  • World Food photos: our top 20 picks - Lonely Planet (Wednesday, 4 April) - To coincide with the launch of our new Street Food book, we asked you to send the most mouth-watering pictures of food you had encountered in your travels to our Facebook Travel Adventures Competition. The result was overwhelming, with nearly 900 submissions that made our stomach grumble hard with envy....
  • If Amsterdam’s hash bars closed, would you still go? - Lonely Planet (Tuesday, 3 April) - Think quick: Amsterdam! What’s the first thing you think? Don’t lie. It’s the hash bars. The Netherlands’ infamously lax policy regarding small amounts of cannabis is so legendary that the whole national economy would fall flat without it (or at least it wouldn’t have attracted John Travolta’s character from Pulp...
  • A Moroccan Adventure: the winner - Lonely Planet (Tuesday, 13 March) - We asked you to tell us what had been your best travel adventure for a chance to win a trip to Morocco (courtesy of Intrepid) and we had an amazing response, with over 3,000 submissions. Your replies showed how some of you do not shy away from a great adventure,...
  • Travel Adventures: the winning picture - Lonely Planet (Friday, 9 March) - After whittling down over 400 submissions to a selection of the 20 best entries for our Travel Adventures picture competition on Facebook, we can now reveal the winning entry and five runner ups. Our independent judge Callum faced a tough job, but he finally decided on the winning picture. But...