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Lonely Planet’s Micro Nations is a travel guide book with a difference. It’s a tour of the world’s “micro nations” - tiny pieces of land that think they’re legitimate nations. Technically speaking, some of them are, at least according to a 1993 convention, but neither the United Nations or any other “real” country agree. Read the full story

Travel guide book writer Thomas Kohnstamm is probably delighted with the media storm that surrounded the recent release of his book Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?. Its long subtitle, A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism seems to sum up what’s been reported about Kohnstamm and the book lately. Read the full story

According to the Lonely Planet’s 2008 Bluelist:

After topping the poll, Lonely Planet said visitors to the Emerald Isle, north and south, are “in for a treat” as the Irish have “a welcoming attitude towards strangers”.

The guide’s Bluelist 2008 said that with the end of The Troubles’ “a cautious optimism reigns supreme, infecting the land once again with the sense that anything’s possible.”

And the second friendliest people on the planet? The citizens of the US. Malawi came in third. Scotland, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey and Samoa were all in the top 10.

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