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Best time to visit Australia? It may be summer, but don’t head Down Under
How well do you research the best times of year to travel to places before you buy your tickets? I’m asking because I was astonished to see Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef listed as a place to visit...
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Are You Ever Too Old For…Youth Hostels?
Australia has become a very expensive destination for foreign travellers who aren’t earning the high incomes that Aussies are currently earning. Hotels, flights, public transport, restaurant meals,...
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Find Luxury Hotels on Small Luxury Hotels of the World iPhone App
I find that a lot of hotel and travel apps are not all that compelling and not very useful, but the Small Luxury Hotels of the World iPhone app makes a good case for using an app instead of the...
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How to Find Cheap Flights
I was recently asked by a reader for tips as to how to find cheap flights and I prefaced that advice with this post over on Grantourismo about how to decide which airline to fly because cheap flights...
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Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: but should you judge it by its brand?
Yesterday I provided some tips on how to choose a guidebook, my advice being don’t judge a guidebook by its cover, judge it by its author, just as you would any other book. The way I see it, if you’re...
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Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: judge it by its author, or, How to...
Last week we wrote the posts Brilliant minds think alike, or, Why so many guidebooks share the same listings: part 1 and part 2, in which Terence and I tried to explain why guidebook reviews don’t...
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Putting context back into travel, OR why contextualizing travel is cool
Now, you know I’m not a fan of guides (see this post) and my recent observation of a tour guide who stopped at each key sight at the Roman Forum to read passages from a guidebook to her bored tour...
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The Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel after hours: the only way to go
If you’ve visited the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel in Rome, then you probably did so with thousands of other people – or, to be more precise, tens of thousands. The attraction is a magnet for a...
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