Category Archives: Middle East

For You The Traveller

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Brian D. Butler

For You The Traveller: A Human Guide To The World is a unique hand-bound travel guidebook. In fact, it’s more like a directory of bighearted folks  who will act as ports-of-call to travelers passing through their country and bearing the … Continue reading →

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Digital Donkeys

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

We’ve brought you a number of diverse posts on WiFi opportunities for travelers, but the digital enabled donkeys is a first. An Israeli historical re-enactment village is now offering WiFi service for tourists at their Kfar Kedem attraction in the … Continue reading →

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Better Airline Food (really)

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Hat-tip to Nikos Loukas for this post from the very entertaining and informative site InFlightFeed. There’s a new and potentially exciting trend in airline meals. A growing number of air carriers are offering a new “pre-order premium meal option” for … Continue reading →

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Time is Nothing to the Traveler

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

After quitting his day job in San Francisco, Kien Lam bought a one-way ticket to London on Virgin, packed a bag and grabbed a pocket-sized Lumix camera. He proceeded to make his way around the world, along the way passing though … Continue reading →

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The Art of Travel

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

The Boston Public Library Print Department is home to a marvelous, though little visited, collection of more than 350 vintage travel posters from the “Golden Age of Travel”, the 1920s through 1940s. Rail travel had opened up all of North … Continue reading →

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A Mapping Mania

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Paula Scher has been creating remarkable, idiosyncratic, enormous, hand-painted typographic maps of the world for nearly two decades. She explores individual nations, cities, transit systems, continents and diverse cultural phenomena through her quirky, whimsical and even visionary one-of-a-kind giant maps. … Continue reading →

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Mecca Diaries

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This week marks the annual period of the Hajj, one of the most important pillars of the Islamic religion. Each year millions of Muslims travel to the ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia to fulfill their sacred obligation. The pilgrimage … Continue reading →

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Mapmania

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

You won’t find any of these marvelous one-of-a-kind maps in your typical travel guidebook, but they make exceedingly clever ways to interact with geographic places. Some of the very talented creators of these diverse and idiosyncratic maps are professional illustrators … Continue reading →

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“To Travel Is To Possess The World”

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Long before Rick Steves and Peter Greenberg showed us how to travel, Burton Holmes was delighting audiences with original travelogues and short films. The fascinating Burton Holmes Archive has a treasure trove of information about early travel writing and the … Continue reading →

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Round the World Travel (for breakfast)

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Do you ever wonder what the rest of the world is eating for breakfast as you shovel your granola or Frosted Flakes? Well the folks at Hostel Bookers sent a link to their photo spread on fifty typical breakfast meals … Continue reading →

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