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Archive for “October, 2008”

ALL THAT’S MISSING IS THE ELEVATOR! *

Friday, October 17th, 2008

We’re all travelers, and whether we take the low cost packaged tour plan, or go via the rent-a-car-and-find-the-hotels-along-the-way route, we all like a little ‘posh’ every once in awhile. But the word ‘posh’ has never been associated with airline travel. Until now, that is.
The first new double-decker Airbus A380 was delivered to Australian [...]


BOOKING PASSAGE

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Tunner: “We must be the first tourists since the war.”
Kit: “We’re not tourists. We’re travelers.”
Tunner: “Oh. What’s the difference?”
Port: “A tourist thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner.
Kit: “Whereas a traveler might not come back at all.”
- From the film “The Sheltering Sky”, Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (original novel by Paul Bowles)
Literary travel [...]


THE FALL WILL PROBABLY KILL YA!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

So, you’ve almost finished your two-week vacation in the south of Spain, and Andalusia was worth all the hype. You did the four hour bus trip from Seville to Malaga, and now you’re sunning yourself and working on that second liter of Alhambra. You’re going home in a couple of days, but for [...]


WDYTYG? (10.13.08)

Monday, October 13th, 2008

HER – Iraklion – Lat: 35° 20' North / Long: 25° 11' East
(Sometimes spelled Heraklion – Pronounced IR-ACK-LEE-O)
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GREEK NATIONAL TOURISM ORGANISATION
This is the official link to the GNTO – the Greek National Tourism Organisation. Since any trip to Crete usually begins in Athens, you’ll want to check this site out. [...]


YOU’RE HOLDING UP THE SHOT!

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Michael Hughes is a British-born professional photographer living in Berlin and working the world. Since Wanderism is constantly looking for unusual and off-the-beaten track twists on the travel genre, this particular feature in a recent issue of News.com.au in Australia caught Doug’s attention. As Doug has never left home without his ‘Hula Girl’ [...]