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Google’s smart glasses: ‘Project Glass’ for travellers

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

For a few months the tech world has been buzzing about Google’s work on Terminator-style smart glasses. Today, Google released a video (see below) showing their vision of the potential of such a product, which they’re currently calling ‘Project Glass’: taking photos, getting directions, checking the weather and making a phone call all while having…

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World Food photos: our top 20 picks

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

To coincide with the launch of our new Street Food book, we asked you to send the most mouth-watering pictures of food you had encountered in your travels to our Facebook Travel Adventures Competition. The result was overwhelming, with nearly 900 submissions that made our stomach grumble hard with envy. We have now gone through…

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If Amsterdam’s hash bars closed, would you still go?

Robert Reid Lonely Planet author

Think quick: Amsterdam! What’s the first thing you think? Don’t lie. It’s the hash bars. The Netherlands’ infamously lax policy regarding small amounts of cannabis is so legendary that the whole national economy would fall flat without it (or at least it wouldn’t have attracted John Travolta’s character from Pulp Fiction, or prompted articles like…

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A Moroccan Adventure: the winner

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We asked you to tell us what had been your best travel adventure for a chance to win a trip to Morocco (courtesy of Intrepid) and we had an amazing response, with over 3,000 submissions. Your replies showed how some of you do not shy away from a great adventure, like Emma Wheatley, who told…

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Travel Adventures: the winning picture

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

After whittling down over 400 submissions to a selection of the 20 best entries for our Travel Adventures picture competition on Facebook, we can now reveal the winning entry and five runner ups. Our independent judge Callum faced a tough job, but he finally decided on the winning picture. But before we reveal who has…

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Travel Adventures: our top 20 picks

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We asked you to send us your most daredevil pictures for our Facebook Travel Adventures Competition and you didn’t disappoint. We had over 500 submissions, ranging from rafting to roaring alongside tigers, but we have now managed to go through all of them and whittle them down to the last 20. From this selection, an…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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