travelling - Procrastinating Ola

Travel News: Travelling Brits happy to speak the lingo

December 17 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Brits abroad, #gaffes, #holidays abroad, #languages, #ownersdirect, #tourists, #Travel News, #travelling

Perhaps it's the famous Brit reserve or that many of us, and yes I do include myself, fear ridicule, that makes us Brits notorious for only speaking English when abroad. N.B. my embrassing language gaffe is at the end of this post. But it seems times...

Advertising

…

Travel News: Brits switch off on holiday

December 10 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #apps, #Brits, #facebook, #holidays, #mobile phone, #smart phones, #totalmedia, #Travel News, #travel research, #travellers, #travelling, #Twitter

I love research that states the bleeding obvious, take this recent survey by travel company HolidayExtras.com. They found … “The majority of Brits just want to get away from everything when they set off on holiday and prefer reading (48%) on the flight...

…

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...

The TSA Pat-Downs: 'It's Our Business To Touch Yours' (video)

November 23 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #airport security, #Huffington Post, #Pat-downs, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Saturday Night Live, #SNL, #travelling, #TSA

Saturday Night Live" did one of the best parodies of the controversial TSA pat-downs yet, turning flyers' fears of unwanted touch into a commercial for a sensual experience. What starts out looking like a sex hotline or escort service ad quickly turns...

Advertising

…

The perils of travelling ... planning (and credit cards)

November 22 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Business Travel, #credit cards, #Ellicott City, #Ola Fagbohun, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #solo travel, #travel planning, #travelling

I have meticuliouly planned my next two weeks of travel: a night in Baltimore, last time I was there 2000, five nights in NYC via Jersey City, two nights in Philadelphia,last there in 1997, a night in Baltimore, back to Ellicott City for the weekend,...

…

Reading: Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America

October 23 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Jenny Diski, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #stranger on a train, #train, #travel, #traveling, #travelling, #USA, #women travelers, #women travellers, #women writers

Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition (15 Jan 2004) Price: £6.99 Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America "We were on a train, out of the way of our lives, any of us could tell anything we liked. We were, for...

…

Detained for questioning

October 16 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Airport, #BWI, #Diverse Traveller, #immigration, #interview, #Ola Fagbohun, #questioning, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #travel, #travelling, #USA

Passing through immigration is one of the pet hates of most travellers to the USA. We all know the process is necessary, but with so many booths why are there never enough officers on hand to deal with the hundreds of passengers arriving practically every...

…

Packing dilemma for the gadgetry-challenged traveller

October 12 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #digital equipment, #gadget-girl, #Gadgets, #Ola Fagbohun, #packing, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #samsonite luggage, #Travel Insurance, #traveler, #traveller, #travelling

These days I can pack for three months, fall into winter, weighing in at 20.15kg out of my flight allowance of 23kg. Years of travelling has taught me to only pack only the things I plan to wear, this using the age old art of mixing and matching. No longer...

Advertising

…

Travel quote - travel, a personal journey

August 2 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Brazil, #evelyn welty, #Ola Fagbohun, #photograph, #Salvador de Bahia, #travel, #Travel News, #Travel quote, #travel writer, #travelling, #woman travellers, #women travelers

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming part of it." - Eudora Welty, writer Picture: Me in Salvador de Bahia, N.E Brazil (2003)

…

Travel quote: the riches of markets

July 23 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #markets, #Marrakesh souk, #Morocco, #Sue Miller, #travel, #Travel News, #travel photography, #Travel quote, #travel writing, #travelling

The riches of markets are surely some of the surprises of travel - overflowing tables, the astonishing variety of fruits and spices. As Sue Miller wrote in her story "Travel", the abundance is " so unlike the parsimony of pint boxes in the supermarket...