August 2009 - Lonely Planet community blog

12 August 2009
2:40pm
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Community News, Shared Experiences, competitions

European discoveries contest – the winner is…

venessapaech 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 Saint Michel looking…

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1 July 2009
12:15pm
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Community News, Groups, Profiles

Join a crowd

venessapaech 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 list…

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30 May 2009
12:24am
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Community News, Thorn Tree, books

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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