http://www.onebag.com/ One of the WWW’s most enduring sites, and for good reason – OneBag (formerly, the Compleat Traveller) offers packing and ultra-light/compact product advice to travellers of all types. I learned the hard way that even a few extra ounces is enough to make carrying a backpack a painful experience, and it never hurts to […]
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Travel Updates
http://www.voyage.gc.ca/dest/ctry/reportpage-en.asp A terrific primer for Canadians looking to travel abroad, detailing visa requirements, common scams, money dealings, etc. for the different countries of the world. Excellent starting point for trip planning.
In Provence, Honoring a Poet at 6,263 Feet – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/travel/30explorer.html A recreation of Petrarch’s famous hike, which necessarily results in a little disappointment and absolutely no philosophical epiphanies whatsoever. I especially love the “Petrarch didn’t mention this” complaints about wind, temperature or trail difficulty – as though, to the author, the great humanist was nothing more than a second-rate travel writer.
Palins Travels: India, Himalaya
http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-3730 At a busy road junction a prominent and colourful display board advises the locals to ‘Learn and Repeat, Signs and Traffic Signals’. As I’m reading it a black cow, followed by her calf, emerges from behind the board and, without signals of any kind, saunters off into the rush-hour traffic. I think we should […]