Mixed Bag

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Trip Advisor, the popular travel Web site, has posted their choices for the top 10 romantic hotels in America. Although I agree with many of their choices, I find it surprising that all they chose nothing east of Phoenix. What about New England? or Miami’s South Beach? or New [...]

Each year in Europe, two cities are named to be the continents Capitals of Culture for the year. It gives sometimes little-known cities the chance to make their name on the world scene – like one of this year’s Capitals, the town of Stavanger in Norway – and others the opportunity [...]

Nothing can sour a flight like a child kicking the back of your seat, a stranger falling asleep on your shoulder, or a loud and drunk passenger regaling the entire plane with stories only she finds funny. Flying is frustrating, at best, and passengers without manners only make it worse. Thankfully, Delta’s finally supplied us [...]

After wading through a million posts about New Year’s Resolutions (and making a few of my own), I did still find some interesting posts to come out of the land of travel blogs this week:

Gridskipper’s great urban reporting continues with a typically informative post on options for getting a haircut if you [...]

A lot of travel blogs took a well-earned Christmas hiatus this week, but there were still some interesting posts out there, including these:

The South American experts at On the Road Travel gave us an appetizing list of the meals available over Christmas in restaurants in Cusco, Peru. Check back there for tips [...]

In the wide world of travel blogging this week:

Gadling let us know that a new museum connected to vacuums and brooms is about to open. The small Idaho town of Potacello will proudly bring us the Cleaning Museum from the fall of 2008 and it even includes Kid’s Clean World where they have exciting interactive [...]

Fertility tourism among Americans is on the rise as the cost of fertility treatments in the United States has skyrocketed, making foreign alternatives more financially viable, if not entirely safe.
People are reviewing their options and have found that for the cost of one in vitro fertilization treatment inside the U.S., they can instead travel to [...]