- 16 February 2012
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Winter from your Window: the winning picture
Javier Panero Lonely Planet author
After whittling down over 400 submissions to a selection of the 20 best entries for our Winter from your Window picture contest on Facebook, we can finally reveal the winning entry. It was a hard job for our independent judge as the standard was very high and there was some left-field submissions amongst the lot.…
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We made an error, sorry
admin Lonely Planet author
Lonely Planet acknowledges it has made an error in The Travel Book 2nd Edition and The Not For Parents Travel Book by including the word ‘official’ against the languages spoken in countries listed. We were mistaken in saying that Kurdish is an official language of Turkey. Turkish is the only official language. Lonely Planet normally…
Continue reading 'We made an error, sorry' Comments are closed- 3 February 2012
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Winter from your window: our top 20 picks
Javier Panero Lonely Planet author
Lonely Planet’s Winter from your Window competition, where we encouraged our followers to submit pictures of what they could see from their windows via our Facebook page, closed recently. We have had a great response, with a total of 411 pictures submitted between the 16th and 31st of January. The standard of the competition was…
Continue reading 'Winter from your window: our top 20 picks' Comments (2)- 1 February 2012
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Travel Adventures competition – Terms & Conditions
Javier Panero Lonely Planet author
Thanks for entering Lonely Planet’s Travel Adventures competition. Here’s some important stuff you should know. Who’s running the show? The promoter is Lonely Planet Publications Pty Limited (ABN 36 005 607 983) of 90 Maribyrnong Street, Footscray, Victoria 3011 Australia. Our friends at Nokia at Nokia House, Keilalahdentie, 02150, Espoo, Finland are our promotional partner.…
Continue reading 'Travel Adventures competition – Terms & Conditions' Comments are closed- 28 January 2012
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30 travel terms that don’t exist but should
Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author
The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 unique words – surely enough to describe any situation, one would think. But as any traveler knows, the world has a way of confronting us with sights and experiences that can leave even the smartest among us at a loss for words. Sometimes we’re limited by our vocabularies,…
Continue reading '30 travel terms that don’t exist but should' Comments (9)- 20 January 2012
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Get answers from the Book of Everything
Javier Panero Lonely Planet author
Have you ever found yourself slogging up the side of a mountain, silently wishing you had known how to shed a few pounds from that backpack before starting out? Or perhaps you once wound up at a posh English country house for the weekend, but didn’t know the correct etiquette for pouring and passing the…
Continue reading 'Get answers from the Book of Everything' Comments (1)- 19 January 2012
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Top 5 most suggestive US state tourism slogans
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
The USA’s least-visited state, North Dakota raised eyebrows recently, with a ‘flirty’ tourism ad ‘aimed at Canadians’ that suggested Fargo nightlife could lead to ‘legendary’ status in amorous matters del noche. The shot, one of 10 new ads, showed three women stopping on a Fargo sidewalk to chat with two guys — drinking beer! —…
Continue reading 'Top 5 most suggestive US state tourism slogans' Comments (2)- 17 January 2012
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Get happy! 5 rules for travel happiness
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
A couple years ago, before attending a powerhouse travel conference – complete with PowerPoint, flowcharts, the whole deal – I made a t-shirt. A plain blue tee, with white block letters that read ‘TRAVEL IS FUN.’ I wore it as a gentle reminder. Yes, travel may transform and educate and benefit places we go (and…
Continue reading 'Get happy! 5 rules for travel happiness' Comments (1)- 31 December 2011
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8 travel challenges for 2012
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
So it begins! Some say, a nutty few anyway, that doomsday is coming December 21, 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar clicks to a close. Well, look on the bright side: that gives us about 12 more months of travel. We better make them count. So, to help prioritize how to make a big…
Continue reading '8 travel challenges for 2012' Comments (7)- 27 December 2011
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Competition: win your dream trip
Robert Reid Lonely Planet author
If you had the chance to see and experience anything you wanted, where would you go? It’s the kind of question that friends like to ask each other around the campfire…or on Facebook. And it’s a question Lonely Planet wants to ask you – for the chance to actually make it come true. Lonely Planet…
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