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Thinking twice when meeting the world

Posted at 04:19PM Jul 09, 2008 by geekgal

Stereotypes are infuriating, and too easily encountered. The great thing about travelling it's a way to shake up your own preformed ideas and impressions of a place and its people - and a way to disabuse others of short-sightedness about your own country and culture.

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: age america locals threadoftheday usa

No place like home

Posted at 03:33PM Jul 08, 2008 by geekgal

Michael Murphy is a man who really, really, really likes his hometown. His local's eye-view of Seattle, Washington proves that you don't have to fly across the world or travel miles to create a travel video.

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: lptv seattle usa video

Thorn Tree segways into travel venture

Posted at 04:08PM Jul 04, 2008 by geekgal

Thorn Tree member Kevin Hey wrote to us to thank Lonely Planet and his fellow Thorn Tree-ers for the "invaluable information and advice" he put to use backpacking, and to let us know that the travel bug has become a full time gig for him these days!

Lonely Planet launches API!

Posted at 04:54PM Jul 03, 2008 by geekgal

Lonely Planet is pleased to announce we're diving headlong into an exciting new venture of collaboration and innovation destined to make your travelling life bigger and better.

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Category: NewAndImproved | Tags: api community lonelyplanet technology

Reverse culture shock

Posted at 05:00PM Jul 02, 2008 by geekgal

In our Thread of the Day, Thorn Tree member jasper007 ponders 'sticking out like a sore thumb, at home', after you've returned from a trip.

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: culture_shock threadoftheday

Top teen picks in South Africa

Posted at 02:18PM Jul 01, 2008 by geekgal

We love hhpetersen's Bluelist - a guide to South Africa from a teenage perspective.

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Category: Bluelist | Tags: bluelist south-africa teen

Are we there yet?

Posted at 10:49AM Jun 30, 2008 by geekgal

Tiring, frustrating, infuriating, absurd - everyone has a tale to tell in which travelling from A to B simply didn't go according to plan.

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: bus india lptv video

A winning Polaroid

Posted at 01:46PM Jun 27, 2008 by geekgal

When we heard the polaroid's days were numbered, we knew something had to be done. So in the spirit of celebration, we ran a competition in search of the Thorn Tree community's best travel polaroids. And whaddya know - you charmed our socks off with a blizzard of instant travel snaps from all over the world.

Choosing the winner was a tough job, but we've got one!

Northern California Fires

Posted at 11:35AM Jun 26, 2008 by geekgal

Check in with the Thorn Tree for the latest on the fires in Northern California, the areas most affected and news of detours if you're on the move.

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: alert california fires threadoftheday

Go and eat worms

Posted at 05:45PM Jun 25, 2008 by geekgal

A ritzy Vancouver restaurant is introducing insects to the menu, prompting some interesting conversation, and sharing of bug eating tales on the Thorn Tree.

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: food getstuffed thorntree threadoftheday

The scoop on authors

Posted at 04:07PM Jun 24, 2008 by geekgal

It's easy to forget that behind every Lonely Planet guidebook are flesh and blood authors who've logged their travel miles and done the hard investigative yards for you.

With that in mind, we bring you the latest edition of our Comet newsletter - the author issue!

A Festival of Travel Writing (Melbourne, Australia)

Posted at 04:43PM Jun 23, 2008 by geekgal

Grab your passport to the Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing and get on board for a weekend of new ways to talk about travel. Meet Lonely Planet writers, try your hand at a travel writing or photography workshop, and more!

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Category: Events | Tags: festival melbourne travel writing

Why are the Danes so happy?

Posted at 04:29PM Jun 20, 2008 by geekgal

Why are the Danes so happy? Our Thread of the Day postulates a strong welfare system, cheap beer and pretty girls. Care to chime in?

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: denmark thorntree threadoftheday

Talking oil

Posted at 04:38PM Jun 19, 2008 by geekgal

We've added a new branch to the Thorn Tree forum.

Fuel For Thought is the place for you to compare petrol prices around the world, get on your soapbox about oily issues and discuss how rising costs are impacting the travel industry - for better or worse.

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Category: NewAndImproved | Tags: forum gas oil petrol thorntree travel

What is it with those Thorn Tree posters?

Posted at 11:47AM Jun 19, 2008 by geekgal

Ever wondered what makes our famous Thorn Tree forum tick? Check in with some introspective users in our Thread of the Day.

Frost's poetic odyssey

Posted at 11:59AM Jun 17, 2008 by geekgal

Ben Frost takes a trip deep into China for his 30th birthday. He goes in as a boy, and comes out as a man with dumpling juice on his shirt. It's a tale of adventure, friendship and spending one of the biggest milestones of your life, alone... surrounded by one billion people.

And it rhymes.

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: china lptv video

Indulge in some art, win some travel goodies

Posted at 12:23AM Jun 16, 2008 by geekgal

Attention all San Franciscans and Bay Area visitors looking for something to do. Swing by San Francisco's Asian Art Museum on July 5, August 7, September 4, October 2 or November 6 for an awesome arts fix and your chance to win travel booty.

Driving songs

Posted at 07:07AM Jun 12, 2008 by geekgal

We all have our favourite driving songs, tracks you like to play while motoring along.

A new Thorn Tree user wants a playlist for an upcoming convertible trip through California, but the songs have to refer to places he's passing through. Offer your picks in our Thread of the Day.

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: driving music threadoftheday usa

Recording your travel soundtrack

Posted at 06:59AM Jun 11, 2008 by geekgal

If you'd like to record the sounds of your travels, check out our Thread of the Day, from the Travel Tech branch of the Thorn Tree, where users compare notes on the best device to get the job done.

Rock out in Melbourne

Posted at 01:37PM Jun 05, 2008 by geekgal

Love live music? Nightlife? Don't miss suzywatusi's Bluelist featuring five hot tips for making the most of rockin' Melbourne.

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Category: Bluelist | Tags: bluelist melbourne music

Dead ending in Czech Republic

Posted at 01:05PM Jun 04, 2008 by geekgal

Climbing every mountain and forging every... well, following every path leads this particular traveller to a few gems and a number of dead ends.

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: bones church czech-republic video

Get your kicks... or don't bother?

Posted at 07:26AM Jun 03, 2008 by geekgal

Get your kicks on Route 66. So goes the famous ditty about America's equally famous driving marathon. But is Route 66 all it's cracked up to be? What can you expect to see if you actually drive it?

Peru Community Project

Posted at 06:35AM Jun 02, 2008 by geekgal

Feel like taking a trip that makes a difference?

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Category: Events | Tags: aid building community peru tour volunteering

Thorn Tree members interview Lonely Planet author

Posted at 06:10AM May 29, 2008 by geekgal

Last Friday author Frances Linzee Gordon spent some time in Lonely Planet headquarters answering questions from Lonely Planet's online community, with the help of the LonelyPlanet.tv and Community crew. Check out her answers!

Cheaters guide to Paris

Posted at 06:53AM May 27, 2008 by geekgal

lpar2305 shares eight top tips to making the most of Paris in a Bluelist that covers conversation, sightseeing, culture, lingo, cusine and more.

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Category: Bluelist | Tags: bluelist paris

Frances Linzee Gordon answers your questions

Posted at 11:46PM May 25, 2008 by geekgal

Travel writer Frances Linzee Gordon has faced her most challenging experience yet. No, not bandits, or wildebeasts, but questions from you, our Lonely Planet online community.

Who needs a guidebook?

Posted at 05:56AM May 23, 2008 by geekgal

Is the guidebook doomed? Is it possible to write one without some sort of cultural bias?

Long time Thorn Tree poster Fieldgate prefers to eschew the printed word when travelling, and they've prompted an interesting discussion about the role of guidebooks for the modern wanderer.

This competition is rated Mmm.

Posted at 05:18AM May 22, 2008 by geekgal

Indulge Lonely Planet with your mouth watering stories for your chance to win a $10,000 adventure for two to San Francisco!

Japan dreaming

Posted at 06:52AM May 21, 2008 by geekgal

A chance encounter with a street busker in Japan inspired life-long traveller Englishgroove to make 'Everyday Japan' a soundtrack for footage taken during his travels and life in Japan.

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: dreams japan music video

Last minute adventures

Posted at 04:24AM May 20, 2008 by geekgal

Feeling the sudden urge to hit the beaten track? Then check out this deal for the Lonely Planet community from Gecko's Adventures.

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