travel news - Procrastinating Ola

Highly recommend: Airbnb.com - home away from home

December 9 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #accommodation, #Airbnb.com, #Baltimore. Maryland, #houseguest, #recommendation, #Travel News

A compendium of the Top 40 Airbnb.com spaces around the globe. From couch to castle, treehouse to houseboat, behold Airbnb’s finest, quirkiest and downright extraordinary properties available for your booking pleasure! via www.airbnb.com While I have...

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Help me send Lola to the North Pole!

December 6 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Competition, #Lola Akinmade, #North Pole, #Quark Expeditions, #quest, #Travel News

Please help me send friend and DiverseTraveller.com contributor Lola to the North Pole with Quark Expeditions.

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No detailed posts due to ... the thrill of travelling

November 23 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Baltimore, #Maryland, #Megabus, #new York, #Travel News, #travelling

I'm not going to lie, I've been too busy enjoying my travels in Maryland, eastern USA, particularly Historic Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, to post. But like any aspiring writer, I have a book full of notes, observations and thoughts, and lots...

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Travel quote: Ode to wanderlust

November 22 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Gerald Gould, #Malaysia, #Ola Fagbhun, #Travel News, #Travel quote

"Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be." Author: Gerald Gould Picture: Me in Malaysia, 2005, but not at sunrise.

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What type of traveller are you?

November 5 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #insight, #stylishly cheap travel, #stylishly cheap traveller, #travel, #Travel News, #travel research, #travelers, #travellers future tribes

Researchers are fond of categorising us all, I should know I am one of them. The results of a new segmentation research tends to only excite those of us in the industry; so yes I was excited when I came across a presentation called, 'Future traveller...

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Foreign Affairs

October 29 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #British singles, #dating, #long distant relationship, #Love, #Parsnip matchmaking service, #relationships, #Travel News, #travel research, #UK singles

It seems I am not alone in having a long-distant relationship, as the number of UK singles looking to date someone in a foreign country trebled last year, according to a survey by matchmaking service, Parship. it seems, three million of the 15 million...

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Rational reasons for not writing: problem with my thinking cap

October 25 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Distraction, #excuses, #procrastinating, #reasons for not writing, #Travel News, #writers, #Writing

Copyright: Sam Morrison. Website: 101 excuses not to write

Nigerian - the rocky road to a 'golden' jubilee

October 1 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Africa, #Al Jazeera, #Independence, #Nigeria, #Travel News

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjCcZ9ORxks&w=450&h=410] Read the article accompaning this video at Al Jazeera

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Travel quote - The Great Wall of China

September 30 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #China, #Great Wall of China, #Travel News, #Travel quote, #W Somerset Maugham

"There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley. " - W. Somerset Maugham, writer...

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Khaira Arby asks, "Why, in a country of beautiful women, do men go to war?"

August 31 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #African music, #African women, #female genital mutilation, #Khaira Arby, #Mali, #Music, #NPR, #singing, #Travel News, #Waidio

As a singer, Khaira Arby has opened the door to a generation of artistic women who now follow in her footsteps. ... Arby has also sung against the practice of female genital mutilation, and in "Waidio," she decries the "anguish of women," insisting that...