The World Bloggers Travel Contest is now live with 18 great prizes on offer with a total value of $20000 (US Dollar) or 16000 Euro. The prizes include stays in destinations such as Montreal, Dubai, London, Provence, Beijing, San Francisco, Nice, Madagascar, Rio de Janeiro and Zurich. Madagascar by madaportal To enter the World Bloggers [...]
Only an hour north of Venice, close to Bassano, you find the small village of Asolo, where Freya Stark the travel writer, used to live, and where she died in 1993. The houses of Asolo are built along the steep hill, with an amazing view. On clear days you can see all the way down [...]
I’m now contributing to the lastminute.com blog three times a month, you can read my posts here. I met Eva Keogan, lastminute.com’s social media expert, at the Travel Blog Camp in London organised by Darren Cronian in November 2009. At the Good Stuff Gathering event in Manchester on 18 February 2010, I met some of [...]
If you love travel in Europe, follow me @karenbryan on Twitter. You’ll find links to the latest posts from two travel blogs which I edit, Europe a la Carte and Top Travel Content Europe. I’ll be retweeting links to other great travel sites/blogs and engaging with travel writers/bloggers from around the globe. You can share [...]
I read about GuideGecko.com in the same Guardian article that mentioned Gekko.com. It’s weird that two similar sounding travel sites were in the same piece. GeckoGuides approached me to ask it I’d like to publish some guides on their site. I was swithered about this, as I wasn’t sure if this was a sensible strategy. [...]
Years ago I was walking down a road in Los Angeles when I spotted billboard that, to me, encapsulated one of the more enjoyable aspects of travelling. It was advertising a car, but that’s not as important as the message printed above it in three metre letters: Go Away. Come Home. Gloat. I can hear [...]
I received an email today from Creative Weblogging to inform me that my contract to write 5 posts a week for their Wandalust UK travel blog had been cancelled with immediate effect. I was rather taken aback mainly because I’d already written and scheduled posts for the next eight days. It’s nothing personal as evidently [...]
It’s the 2nd birthday of the Europe a la Carte blog on the 22 October 2008. I wanted to celebrate the occasion but it’s a bit difficult to have an party online. I’d like to invite you to a live blog for a lively discussion on “The Future of the Travel Blog”. The live blog [...]
I’d like to introduce you to the most recent member of the Europe a la Carte blogging team, Rachel Webb. Rachel Webb moved to Spain from the UK in 1996 she writes mainly about her travels in the two countries. You can find her work on Suite101,Travellady.com among others. She’s also busy with her own [...]
Right now I’m sitting in a campsite in Taesch, Switzerland, hoping for the weather to clear and to get my first glimpse of the Matterhorn in real life. It isn’t looking good unfortunately. Fortunately, though, the campsite has WiFi so I can let people know where I am, what I’m up to and that the [...]
