Nicola delighted about finding a Lonely Planet guide book in New Delhi, India
It’s Saturday so you know what that means….it’s time for Nicola Arnold’s weekly travel blog.
But first it’s time to congratulate her! Nicola will soon be leaving our 21-square-mile island for Canada. She’s got a job and she’ll be in Canada soon (at least for a while before she figures out how to travel again).
Have no fear, though, we’re not losing our blogger! She’ll continue with all of our important travel information every Saturday. And this week? This week Nicola’s helping us find travel information online:
If you made New Year’s resolutions specifically geared towards travel… what would they be?
Travel more? Stay longer? Revisit favourite places? Dare new destinations? Pack lighter? Leave behind technology?
Since I started writing columns for Robyn’s Wandering blog, I began to realize that I was really interested in fueling the fire of my travel passion.
I began to research fervently for ways to get a daily dose of travel writing, adventures and escapism. I did not
Funny ads at the airport that tell traveling like it is
really want to buy magazines, just to hoard them in my closet.
I did not want to spend all my time searching for websites, just to end up hours later having stumbled upon a string of videos on YouTube and emerging from behind my laptop 3 hours later. We all know how easily that can happen!
The Christmas season is over, although Christmas cards continue to trickle in. It is 2011 and perhaps this year will mean a backpacking adventure, a summer road trip, a family reunion in a faraway place, or just a weekend spent visiting a new city.
As a social network, Facebook helps to bring information together in one convenient place. I decided to use it as a tool to become a ‘fan’ of all sorts of travel pages – including Robyn’s Wanderings!! After browsing through travel pages on Facebook, I soon found out that they are designed to tantalize the tourists and travelers of the world.
And it worked on me.
What sort of pages did I add on Facebook to follow? A few examples include:
– National Geographic Traveler
– Greek Islands (I have a weak spot for Santorini)
– Maldives (one day I hope to visit… and it shall be grand)
A sight in India that you will have to see to believe
These pages send updates on Facebook related to travel and adventures… and many of them are interesting and worth a glance when you have some free time to browse.
If you are interested in 7 Tips for Single Bag Travel (http://www.wisebread.com/vacation-hack-7-tips-for-single-bag-travel) then Wisebread has some hinters. If there is one thing I would still like to perfect this year in travel, it would be to pack lighter. Wise words I try to follow are that once you have laid out what you want to travel with, take half of the clothing and double the money… although it is usually easier said than done!
Robyn's Wanderings 