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Free London ebooks and apps in celebration of the Olympics

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On the ground in London or watching from afar – or even if you’re dreaming of a trip to London in the near future – in celebration of the Olympic Games we’ve made four of our apps and ebooks free for our readers. There’s no medal for getting there first, but these are available for…

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Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures coming to Travel Channel

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Lonely Planet has been producing travel-related television shows for over 10 years, but we’re especially excited about our latest and doubly happy to be able to announce the upcoming US premiere of the new television series Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures on Travel Channel. Based on the Lonely Planet book of the same name, this…

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Personal boundaries at the border

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

Enduring long queues in airports and crossing borders are par for the traveller’s course. But how about having a customs officer shuffle through personal photos of your partner, in a compromising state no less? A new Australian customs requirement asks that all travellers entering the country (including returning residents) declare any pornorgraphy in their possession.  Trouble is, pornography isn’t illegal in…

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Drinks and the city

Mark Broadhead Lonely Planet author

Travelling and liquid refreshments go together like gin and tonic. Also, trying the local liquids is usually cheaper, and almost always more interesting than getting an international brand. To this end we asked our traveller community on Twitter and Facebook this question: Can you name a city and a local drink that one should drink there?…

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Tragic moderator war breaks out on Thorn Tree

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The customarily cool-as-ice moderators on Lonely Planet’s iconic Thorn Tree travel forum erupted in an uncharacteristic flame war early yesterday that left community members and lurkers confused, anxious, and uncertain about the future. Showing an unusual disregard for the company’s own Community Guidelines, the row appears to have erupted over the spelling of the word…

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What’s the buzz?

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

We like to keep on top of things, and we like to do so on your behalf. So we thought we’d bring you a few highlights from our Facebook and Twitter communities this week. On Twitter, there was a lot of chatter about the launch of our Lonely Planet Magazine in India. An appearance from movie…

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Unloved cities that rock

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

We recently asked our Facebook fans which cities they thought had an undeservingly bad reputation. The results are in and there’s a diverse bunch of unloved destinations out there that you felt travellers were unecessarily wary or critical of. Brian Herbert felt that “just about every city in Africa” offered pleasant surprises, “from Nairobi to Accra to…

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European discoveries contest – the winner is…

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

Without further ado, the winner of last week’s European discoveries contest is…mpg! Congratulations to mpg, whose entry clocked in just under the limit at 99 words – hopefully they’ll get a lot of mileage out of this win. Here is the winning entry, a European discovery courtesy of Parisian pigeons: “Sitting in a park in…

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Join a crowd

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

Today we’ve launched a new beta Groups tool that lets people with shared travel interests gather in one spot, connect and start a conversation. This first version of Groups allows participants to post messages, share photos and comment on both. It also allows travellers to add useful applications to their group, such as a reading…

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Lonely Planet Guidebook Updates

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

In the time it takes Lonely Planet to publish a new edition of a guidebook phone numbers change, businesses move or close, prices rise and fall, etc. To help keep LP guidebook users informed, we have just introduced downloadable PDFs with the current list of updates and corrections.

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