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Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 10 hours, 11 minutes ago • matadortv.com
Two friends combine 7 days of driving and 4,300 photos for one unforgettable journey across America.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 10 hours, 38 minutes ago • guardian.co.uk
An old south London boozer gets a dramatic new lease of life as the chef behind the Eagle lands in Stockwell
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 11 hours, 11 minutes ago • timesonline.co.uk
How about a quickie? We’ve got a (dirty) dozen, from Paris to St Petersburg: 12 exotic, erotic escapes to put you in the mood
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 11 hours, 22 minutes ago • maxablog.com
The Tokyo episode of the first 13-show season of public television's travel series "Rudy Maxa's World" won a prestigious regional Emmy award last night in the category of "Arts/Entertainment feature" from the Upper Midwest chapter of the National Television Academy.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 11 hours, 38 minutes ago • sfgate.com
Walking beneath Gordian-knot tangles of drooping overhead wires, past apartment windows draped with laundry, I enter a 1920s building and wedge myself into a tiny elevator. Seconds later, I emerge into the hidden elegance of M on the Bund restaurant and its aptly named Glamour Bar. As I savor a Moroccan lunch, big yellow construction cranes hover on the horizon. From the lip of the restaurant's terrace, I watch as workers toil on a torn-up road running along the river's edge - the famous Bund.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 12 hours, 11 minutes ago • sfgate.com
I went because: To visit relatives, get away from the city and enjoy a strong dollar for a change.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 12 hours, 38 minutes ago • europealacarte.co.uk
Sometimes the best places to visit in Europe are off the beaten path. Way off the beaten path. Smack dab in the middle of Sweden off the beaten path. That’s where you’ll find the village of Järvsö.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 13 hours, 11 minutes ago • gadling.com
The Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Martin Pérez, has announced that popular tourist destination Machu Picchu will reopen to visitors starting April 1st, marking a return to normalcy for the 15th century Inca fortress that is the focal point Peru's travel industry.
Submitted by Carolyn Scott, Made Popular: 13 hours, 38 minutes ago • youtube.com
The Healthy Voyager goes to Denver!
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 14 hours, 11 minutes ago • gadling.com
Most people will agree that dog is man's best friend. In parts of Asia, however, it's also what's for dinner. The consumption of dog and cat meat by humans is practiced in parts of China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Philippines. Cat is eaten in parts of China and South America. The times they are a-changin', however, because the Chinese government is considering legislation that would make eating dogs and cats illegal there, in part because of how the practice negatively impacts overseas tourism.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 14 hours, 38 minutes ago • ricksteves.com
Still buzzing from the fun, sharing, and brainstorming our tour staff enjoyed with our tour guides at our annual summit last month, we are busy incorporating itinerary changes we agreed upon into our 2010 tour plans. Here is the thinking behind more of what I hope are improvements. (Sorry for the delay in getting this entry out. This has been a particularly busy week.)
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 15 hours, 11 minutes ago • guardian.co.uk
This home counties pub-with-rooms on London's Metropolitan Line has a great period feel, and fantastic food
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 15 hours, 38 minutes ago • everything-everywhere.com
The Dead Sea as seen from Masada, Israel
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 16 hours, 11 minutes ago • theprovince.com
The James Beard Foundation announced the winners of its "America's Classics" category last month. The category "embodies the spirit of James Beard, who loved a paper cone full of fried clams just as much as a fine French dinner," says Susan Ungaro, president of the foundation. The winners are:
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 16 hours, 11 minutes ago • theprovince.com
Oaxaca, nestled in the mountainous region of southern Mexico, is without doubt one of the country's most impressive colonial cities. In a sunlit valley surrounded by the Sierra Madre peaks, small villages form a ring of cultural excellence around Oaxaca's perimeter. Folk art is the livelihood in many of these villages, where the wood carving, rug weaving, textiles and pottery are exceptional.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 16 hours, 38 minutes ago • worldhum.com
This post on Eye Blog has a History Detectives feel, chronicling the history of a forgotten Pan Am Airlines advertising campaign from the early ’70s.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 17 hours, 11 minutes ago • guardian.co.uk
Gone are the doilies, the artificial flowers and the super-strict landladies… Today's B&Bs are all about style, originality and art
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 17 hours, 38 minutes ago • vagabondish.com
Possessions aren’t so hard to live without. Most people think they need a vast assortment of crap in order to be happy. But, when you give a man a backpack and a laptop and send him out into the world, he’ll usually find he misses his things least of all. We don’t get homesick pining for our Plasma HDTV, but rather for the people we used to watch that TV with.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 18 hours, 11 minutes ago • worldhum.com
Volkswagen Golfs are stacked in one of the massive glass silos at Autostadt, the theme park adjacent to Volkswagen’s main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: 18 hours, 38 minutes ago • blogs.nationalgeographic.com
"Traveling is not just the seeing of sites, but it is your experiences that change who you are and how you think." These wise words come from 12-year-old traveler Allison Herring, who visited Europe for the first time in 2008 with National Geographic's Family Expeditions, and wrote an essay about the traditional Tuscan Palio horseraces that's featured on the National Geographic Expeditions Field Notes Blog
