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Category Archives: apps
Underground in Berlin
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my fascination with public transit systems and their maps. So it will come as little surprise that I am mildly obsessed with the hypnotic website Ubähnchen which is a … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, apps, Europe, Public Transport, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Berlin, Germany, transit maps
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Be Your Own Cartographer
Here at Travel Between The Pages world headquarters we’re always up for a clever city map generator. So, here’s the Pretty Mapp App which is a fun way to create colorful local maps of your home town or anyplace that … Continue reading
Make Your Drive Fun
No one enjoys a boring road trip and we all love an excuse to make unscheduled stops along the way. Make My Drive Fun will make those drives a bit more spontaneous and fun. It’s a simple as inputting your … Continue reading
Where do you find book recommendations
I don’t know about you, but I’m picky when it comes to book recommendations. It’s certainly helpful to have friends with highly developed reading tastes who make book suggestions. And of course there are the book review sections of trustworthy … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Books, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bookshop, Brave New World, novels, Websites
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Do You Need A Reading Sheperd
Shepherd is a curated book discovery tool based on author recommendations: “We ask authors to share their favorite books around topics and themes they are passionate about and why they recommend each book.” Although the website is relatively new, it’s off … Continue reading
Sunday Sundries
Atlas of endangered alphabets – is an excellent project aiming to save indigenous and minority writing systems. High Life – Just discovered that you don’t even have to leave home to read British Airways’ really rather good in-flight magazine. Worth … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, apps, Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Maps
Tagged British Airways, library tourism, Mississippi
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Lost and Found
Uber has released its annual Lost & Found Index with interesting lists of the items that riders left behind. As you might expect, the most commonly forgotten things are obvious: phones, wallets, keys, and backpacks. The most “forgetful” U.S. cities … Continue reading
Take A Virtual Vacation
Virtual Vacation is a web directory that pulls together the dozens of walking, driving, hiking and other point-of-view videos scattered across the web where people explore unique places with a camera in hand. Beware, it’s easy to fall down this … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Public Transport, South America, Tourism, USA
Tagged driving tours, virtual travel, walking tours
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Historic Borders
With the tragic news unfolding daily in Europe, it’s an appropriate time to take stock of how we got here. I’ve always found that maps can be an excellent way to help visualize geo-political conflicts. I recently discovered this simple, … Continue reading
The Bookcase of Tolerance
I’ve visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam many times over the years and I’ve always been moved both by her family’s story and the Museum’s goal of promoting tolerance. The organization recently release an AR-based project called The Bookcase … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Architecture, Europe, History, Museums, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank House, AR
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