Tag: book review

What is a micro trip? The editors of Lonely Planet have taken the idea of short trips in a rather interesting direction in the book called Micro Trips. They’ve …

You’ve been there: a neighborhood, a street, a whole town that immediately seems welcoming. There’s lots going on and you feel as though you’re invited to join in, even …

Through stories we tell each other of our travels, places and people come vividly alive in imagination. Here are four such tales, books of the imagination set in landscapes …

You have to think that the people at Lonely Planet had a good time coming up with the title Cooks, Clowns and Cowboys It’s a book about skills and …

No matter where you are in New Zealand, even if it’s the middle of nowhere, there’s bound to be a café just around the corner. And you can be …

My favorite travel book this year Cambodian Grrrl, by Anne Elizabeth Moore, which recounted her experiences teaching young Cambodian women about self-publishing zines in Phnom Pehn. In my review …

Stay at Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego and you could take advantage of their one night surfing package that includes not only surfing lessons but also a …

The Contemporary Cruise by Iwein Maassen is a perfect coffee table book that not only captivates you with it’s stunning photographs but also provides you with plenty of information …

If you were an English chef who wanted to get a handle on the vast expanse of ideas that make up American cooking, where would you travel? Jamie Oliver, …

Stories about giant, freaky, rogue waves 100 feet and higher have always been around. But scientists, believing that the basic physics of ocean waves indicated it was virtually impossible for these waves to exist, considered …

Harmony, Indiana, is a town of the imagination rather than a real place. Chances are, though, that once you’ve begun reading Philip Gulley’s novel Christmas in Harmony you’ll soon …

Helen Keller wasn‘t referring to New Zealand when she said “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”  but she might well have been. Blessed with a clean, green, …