March 2010 Blog Posts (51)

Where the Right Side is the Wrong Side – UK Rental Car Tips, Part One

Original post by hawkflight on the tripwolf blog:

It happens a thousand times a day at rental counters across the former British Empire: somebody is about to attempt to drive on the left side of the road for the first time. Never mind that most of the world drives on the…

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Added by Adena on March 8, 2010 at 8:33am — No Comments

Plot Facebook Friends on Map

My friend and I recently agreed to go on a trip. We also agreed it would be way cooler to go to a city where we had a friend already. That way we could stay at their place. Plus built-in social circle. So…

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Added by Taige Zhang on March 5, 2010 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

World Zoos

Strangely enough, the first time I stepped into a Zoo I was 22 years old, simply because in my country, we don’t have one. I had spent an entire childhood falling in love with those fury, scaly, feathered, blubbered creatures and head over heels in love with one of them in particular; the tiger. I therefore collected pictures of it which I found on the internet, drew it for school art projects and even used half of its scientific name ‘tigris’ as part of my…

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Added by Denise Pulis on March 5, 2010 at 12:52am — No Comments

London Art

The Tate Modern itself is terribly British; an abandoned power plant lovingly restored and put to good use, where in many other countries it would have been left to reach complete dereliction, then demolished and replaced by a shiny new construction. Despite its cumbersome and crude aspect the building remains puzzlingly beautiful. The contents of the gallery are, on the other hand, another story, shifting as they do continuously between interesting, peculiar,…

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Added by Denise Pulis on March 5, 2010 at 12:49am — No Comments

Chinese New Year, in China

Written by our tripwolf blogger, glassw4are.

It was everything I didn’t expect; clean, easy to navigate, and not very crowded. As many Chinese people had already left Beijing to be with their families, it seemed… Continue

Added by Adena on March 4, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Tripfilms best 2010 Winter Olympic Videos!

Episode 40

The whole world bonds of sports and why not! With it?s mile high ski jumpers, rocketing ice lugers, tough hockey players & graceful

skaters-the winter Olympics is an amazing spectacle of the world?s best

athletic talent. We've hand chosen our top Olympic videos and we are

even giving you a profile of Vancouver--the lucky host of this past

2010 winter games.

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Added by Kelley on March 4, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

5 Things to ask yourself before you travel

There's no stemming the travelers these days -- people want to go everywhere and do it all, and it will take more than a long security check to put them off. As much as we would like to just drop it all and take off, some level of planning and preparation is inevitable. So here are a couple of important questions you should probably ask yourself before you leave.…

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Added by Mary Tan on March 3, 2010 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Survey On Blogging: For Tourism Businesses

Here are the Survey Questions:

Are More Tourism Businesses Blogging To:

1. Reach a different audience?

2. Build a relationship of trust with readers?

3. Update their own website and pictures?

4. Automate their…

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Added by Douglas Lampi on March 2, 2010 at 7:58am — No Comments

Ring my bell

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Added by Anastasia Ashman on March 2, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Second call to participate in the survey on Evaluating eTourism 2.0

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Added by Oriol Miralbell on March 1, 2010 at 4:16pm — No Comments

'I love London'

While in a foreign city, not many of us are as strong as to keep their wallets and purses firmly in their pockets as they browse the endless selection offered by gift shops, markets and street stalls selling junk we will never use and which we will probably be too embarrassed to even display in public. Even worse, we are often made to think that these totally tasteless products can be casually given to friends and family as a memento…

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Added by Denise Pulis on March 1, 2010 at 4:32am — No Comments