Category: travel blogs
It was 16 years ago this week that we launched the multi-author Perceptive Travel Blog, with a focus on quirky places and stories that you won’t find anywhere else. …
Kristin Winet
January 10, 2018
Travel, cruise travel, Europe travel, food & drink, green travel, History, Kristin projects, Perceptive Travel, photography, travel blogs
I’m not exactly a wine-tasting connoisseur, but I do know that when I drink wine I should be on the lookout for things. Things like floral, citrus, and oak. …
Kristin Winet
December 13, 2017
cruise travel, Europe travel, History, Kristin projects, Literary Travel, Perceptive Travel, photography, Travel, travel blogs, travel stories
We looked at each other at exactly the same time and said it almost simultaneously. I could live here. That’s what Coimbra does to a person like me, a …
When you walk up to The Book Lounge at 71 Roeland Street in the Eastern Precinct of Cape Town, you won’t see a flashy sign. You won’t see a welcoming entrance …
Kristin Winet
April 13, 2017
encounters, food & drink, History, Kristin projects, Perceptive Travel, photography, Travel, travel blogs, travel stories, travel websites, weirdness
Matilda is the largest one, but Matilda is not an octopus. She used to be one, a sleek, slippery body, eight legs, and a bulbous head and shifty eyes. …
Vidin, Bulgaria is, by all respects, a sleepy town. If you’ve never heard of Vidin, you’re in good company—before I’d stepped off the boat and onto its soil, I …
I don’t have all the answers. My writing career is a constant work in progress, though anybody who takes their work seriously would likely say the same thing, regardless …
There are a lot of travel writers out there, but hardly any advice on how to be a successful travel writer; in fact, I just did a search for …
We’re normally not ones to toot our own horn, so please excuse us for taking a moment to share a little (really) good news by way of Biloxi, Mississippi, …
New England, the far northeastern part of the United States, is a place of contrasts — big cities and small towns, seashores and lake shores, ponds, rivers, forests, cutting …
I’m tiptoeing over to the edge of the rocky cliff in the most bizarre place I’ve ever been when a Taiwanese dad and his 12-year-old son approach me. The …
The Perceptive Travel website, of which this blog is an offshoot, just picked up a Silver for ‘Best Travel Journalism Website’ at the 2011 North American Travel Journalists Association …