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Category Archives: Tourism
Why A Duck (Redux)
This amazing book sculpture was created by Thomas Wightman for Visit Scotland. The work celebrates a childhood train journey over the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct bridge. It may look familiar, if you’ve ever seen a Harry Potter film. all images ©Thomas Wightman
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Europe, Tourism
Tagged Harry Poter, Scotland, Trains, Visit Scotland
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Bugging Out
If you need another reason not to visit the United States this year maybe this will do it. Fortunately, I have not been bitten by bedbugs since I was an adolescent, but I have heard enough horror stories from travelers … Continue reading
Tourists, Go Home
Travelers who want to avoid other tourists and interact with the people who actually live there, should probably avoid Monaco and Malta. According to this chart, the first has 9 tourists for every local, while the second has 6.3 to … Continue reading
Iceland Centenary
I don’t usually promote commercial products at TBTP, however, I’m making an exception today.100 People: is a clever ad campaign for the Icelandic clothing brand 66 North celebrating its centenary this year. The brand did a photoshoot and accompanying ad … Continue reading
Hotel Retro
Letterform Archive has published a new large format peel and stick book Hotel Retro: Vintage Luggage Labels from Tokyo to Buenos Aires. A 330-sticker-long journey through this new age of global travel by train and sea designed by San Francisco agency MacFadden & … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, History, Tourism, Travel Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged Hotels, Luggage, Travel
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Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower
Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel is a book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the end of the nineteenth … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Books, Europe, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Hokusai, Japaonisme, lithography, Paris, woodblock prints
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Whitey’s on the Moon (almost)
The possibly legit startup Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU), which may or may not have any relationship to the Russian intelligence agency GRU, has launched a website to take reservations for a hotel on the moon. Take a beat though because the … Continue reading
Sounds like Japan
The Sound of Japan transported me directly to my happy place. Captured in the mountains and cities of Japan, this film blends immersive visuals with an original soundtrack, composed of sounds recorded on location by musician Jackson Fester. An audio-visual exploration … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Film, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Japan, Japan tourism, travel video
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sentimental souvenirs of the past
“I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Asia, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Douglas Adams, Japan, Kyoto
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Paris 1970
I recently learned about an amateur photography contest called ‘C’était Paris en 1970’ (‘This Was Paris in 1970’), whose roughly fourteen thousand participants produced seventy thousand black-and-white prints and thirty thousand color slides of the capital in the midst of … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 