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
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
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.
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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: recording sound technology threadoftheday travel
Belize, a birds eye view
Posted at 10:03AM Apr 22, 2008 by geekgal
Lately the Lonely Planet community have been having an extremely lively discussion about guidebooks as a whole - how they should be created, what they should do for the reader, what is their role in a digital age.
Thorn Tree user Lan Sluder shares his review of Bruce Barcott's The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird and in doing so, adds another interesting angle to the debate.
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Category: CommunityHighlight | Tags: belize book review travel
From me to you
Posted at 06:42AM Apr 08, 2008 by geekgal
Gift giving is often a part of travel. You take gifts with you to give people you meet and stay with, and take tokens home to give as gifts when you've returned.
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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: culture exchange gifts present threadoftheday travel
Travel fools
Posted at 05:20AM Apr 02, 2008 by geekgal
The grand tradition of April Fools Day brought out some curious travel stories yesterday, brought to our attention by many folks in the Lonely Planet community.
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Category: CommunityHighlight | Tags: funny humour joke news travel
Tell us how you travel - WIN US$2000 travel voucher
Posted at 03:11AM Mar 18, 2008 by G-Woman
Every year Lonely Planet asks travellers like you to tell us about what you've been up to through our traveller survey. There's prizes for sharing!
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Category: CompetitionsPromosAndDiscounts | Tags: competitions survey travel voucher win write
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