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Archive for category: The art of travel

Entertaining, reflective, or ranting pieces about the art of travel

  • Air France cancelled flights
     

    When things don’t go as planned

    30th September 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 3 comments

    Travel is stressful, let’s admit it. Especially the days just before departure when you are frantically getting ready and checking things off an endless ”to do” list. The last thing you need is not knowing […]

     
     
  • VirtualTourist meeting Ljubljana
     

    Are we experiencing a social travel revolution?

    12th August 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 3 comments

    The travel landscape is changing. You don’t need to rely on big hotels, travel agents and expensive guided tours to organize your trips anymore. You can stay in somebody’s spare room booked through an internet […]

     
     
  • These two are actually from Cuba
     

    7 problematic travel situations and what you can do

    20th April 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 1 comment

    You’re sitting in a taxi in Bangkok and realize the driver can’t understand where you want to go. You’re being followed by begging kids in Cusco. You’ve just used the toilet in your beachfront cabana […]

     
     
  • Sipping a mojito on Ko Lanta at sunset
     

    Am I a lazy traveller?

    30th March 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 0 comments

    After four months on the road, I’m finally back home, jet-lagged and nursing a cold. (Sniff.) It’s only when my head finally hits my own pillow, after 30 hours of shuffling between planes and airports, […]

     
     
  • Typical winter departure day
     

    Departure Day

    27th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 0 comments

    Many travel bloggers out there are on a perpetual trip. You may have noticed that I’m not. I have a permanent home base in Toronto (Canada) and I travel from there. Canada is a fine […]

     
     
  • Greek Island
     

    Planning a trip 20 years ago

    24th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 1 comment

    When I was just starting to travel, 20 years ago, planning a trip looked nothing like it does now. There was no world wide web, no high speed internet, no digital cameras, and no cell […]

     
     
  • Backpackers in a long boat in Laos
     

    You call yourself a backpacker?

    17th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 2 comments

    For the longest time I fancied myself a backpacker. It’s true that I was, and still am, travelling with a backpack. Well, these days it’s more like a large knapsack, small enough to satisfy carry-on […]

     
     
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