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Top 10 iPad Hotels

June 2nd, 2010

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Muse Hotel, Saint Tropez, France

For all you iPhone travelers out there, The Luxury Travel Bible website has chosen the World’s Top Ten Best iPad Hotels.

“Some surprising hotels are at the forefront of the iPad revolution,” says the site. “(We) look at the best places to read your ‘iPad poolside, get a guided city tour or even entertain the kids.”

Here are the Top 10 Best iPad Hotels:

1. Anantara Phuket, Thailand

2. Danai Beach Resort, Aegian Peninsula, Greece

3. Four Seasons Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

4. Intercontinental Hong Kong, Kowloon

5. La Bandita, Tuscany, Italy

6. Muse Hotel, Saint Tropez, France

7. The Berkeley Hotel, London, England

8. The Iron Horse Hotel, Milwaukee, USA

9. The Lenox, Boston, USA

10. The Plaza, New York, USA

See the website’s full story here.

Image courtesy of YTL Hotel and Resorts

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10 Asia Blogs You’ll Love

January 19th, 2010
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Photo credit: Carrie Kellenberger/My Several Worlds

Is Asia calling?   If it is, there are Asia blogs about everything Asia for everyone from travelers, foodies and expats to educators and photographers.

traveling greener loves My Several Worlds and other blogs by Taiwan-based freelance writer/editor Carrie Kellenberger.  What we love about her blogs is they’re global cool and eclectic with posts on Taiwan, traveling in Asia, art, culture, education, photography and more.

“I love writing. I love traveling. I love photography. I love Asia. I don’t need any more than this to be inspired,” she says.

Kellenberger launched My Several Worlds to keep her family and friends updated on her travels and adventures in Asia.  Since then, she launched another two sites – Taiwan Photographers and Best Beaches in Asia and a third – Lay Your Head Here with her husband.

Says Kellenberger:  “My plan for 2010 is to bring it all back home. I’ll still be writing about travel, destinations, cultures, and lifestyles, but I also want to go old school and start writing more about our personal observations, experiences and travels in Asia.”

Need more inspiration?  Here are 10 Asia Blogs You’ll Love:

1. My Several Worlds

2. Asian Ramblings

3. EatingAsia

4. Unearthing Asia

5. Mike’s Blender

6. Jamie Sinz

7. Annamatic

8. Stickyrice

9. Kunzum

10. Chris in South Korea

What are your favorite Asia blogs?  Share and tell us about them.

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10 Digital Magazine Sites You’ll Love

November 10th, 2009
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Image courtesy of Wend Magazine

Digital versions of your favorite travel magazines are greener, more mobile alternatives to their paper versions.

Select airlines and media companies are featuring free digital versions of their magazines on their sites.  While more travel magazines are offering a free preview of their digital version and digital subscriptions.

In other cases, magazines are opting to enhance their online profile, increasing current and archived content on their sites.  If you’re seeking digital travel magazines, sites like Zinio sell subscriptions to diverse consumer and trade publications.

We love Wend Magazine (above), which specializes in adventure/inspiration/travel/activism.  The magazine launched its digital version over a year ago.

Says Stiv Wilson, Editor in Chief, Wend Magazine:

“We invested in the digital platform for several reasons.  Even though we pay through the nose for locally sourced FSC certified paper and print locally, digital is still, of course, greener…It’s been received well.  For one, it’s great to have this asset for international subscribers, and because production is a fixed cost, it allows poor college students and the like to be able to get a subscription on a cheap beer budget.  Also, it’s a tremendous marketing tool…”

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10 Cycling Blogs You’ll Love

November 3rd, 2009

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Cyclists in Copenhagen.  Image courtesy of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark

Cycling and cycling blogs are alive and kicking all over the world.

We love the street stylish blog Copenhagen Cycle Chic by journalist, film director and photographer Mikael Colville-Andersen.  The blog was born in 2007 when he created a place for photos about Copenhagen’s bicycle culture on the Internet.

Colville-Andersen has teamed up with other cycling bloggers, including their angles, perspectives and photos.   Since 2007, numerous Cycle Chic “collaborator & copycat”  blogs and websites inspired by CCC have launched.

Says Colville-Anderson:

“Copenhagen Cycle Chic aims to take back the bike culture by showing how the bicycle once again can be an integral, respectable and feasible transport form, free of sports clothes and gear, and how it can play a vital role in increasing the life quality in cities.”

From bike culture to adventure travel, here are 10 Cycling Blogs You’ll Love:

1.  Copenhagen Cycle Chic

2.  Cycling the Americas

3.  The Big Africa Cycle

4.  Revolution Cycle

5.  The Hungry Cyclist

6.  Yaksite.org

7.  Family on Bikes

8.  Viking Biker

9.  The SolarCycle Diaries

10. Riding the Spine

What is your favorite cycling blog?  Share your favorites.

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10 Photoblogs You’ll Love

October 27th, 2009

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Photo credit: RomePhotoBlog

Photoblogs can be greener (and less expensive) ways to ‘travel the world’.

From Asia to Africa, Tokyo to Toronto, evocative photoblogs can transport travelers  to another place and time.  ILovePhotoBlogs and other sites are excellent sources for new, up-and-coming and established photoblogs.

We frequently ‘travel to Rome’ via  RomePhotoBlog (image above.)  “After studying art history and falling in love with Italian history and culture, I moved to Rome in 2005,” says photographer Jessica of RomePhotoBlog. “I hope this blog will be a creative expression of my time here and will create new views of this amazing city.”

Here are 10 Photoblogs You’ll Love To ‘Travel’:

1. RomePhotoBlog

2. Stuck In Customs

3. Notes from the Road

4. The Longest Way Home

5. Ron Dubin Photography

6. Photographer in Japan

7. Prague Daily Photo

8. Scarlett Lion

9. peregrine by nature

10. iced coffee photoblog

What photoblogs inspire your travels?  Tell us and we’ll consider them for a follow-up post.

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Ecotouring New Zealand

October 22nd, 2009

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Fancy an organized ecotour of New Zealand?

Adventure travel company Terra Incognita ECOTOURS is offering a new ecotour of New Zealand for 2010.   Specializing in wildlife-focused ecotours, the company will take “ecotourists” to North and South Islands of New Zealand to experience the wildlife, scenery, and culture of the region.

Among the sights and experiences will be newly-hatched penguins, the flightless kiwi, marine life, Maori culture, high altitude sheep farming, fjords, seals, dolphins, rainforest and glaciers.

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