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Forget SATC2, the travel movie of the year may be #Eat, Pray and Love

11 June 2010 ( #Diverse Traveller, #DiverseTraveller.com, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #Eat Pray and Love, #Elizabeth Gilbert, #Italy, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Rome, #travel, #Travel books, #women, #women travellers )

Forget SATC2 in Morroco, the movie you should be excited about is Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything . For those of you who haven't read Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything , where have you been? Before I introduce the film...

Air-etiquette takes a nose dive

27 April 2009 ( #aeroplanes, #airline, #airtravel, #Britishtravellers, #passengers, #research, #rude, #rudeness, #travel, #Travel News, #travellers, #UK )

Let’s be honest; long haul journey’s can be a nightmare. Screaming children kicking the back of your chair, severe tiredness and cramped seating conditions can drive even the calmest person insane. And if that’s not bad enough it looks as if things are...

Travelwise - Tips for Reducing the Effects of Jet lag (Advertorial)

24 April 2012 ( #avoid jet lag, #Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, #Jet Lag, #jet lag tips, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #silent revolution, #silentnight, #sleep, #travel, #travel tips, #travelwise )

Spokeswoman for Silentnight Dr Nerina Ramlakhan gives her top tips on how to get back into a natural sleeping pattern after a holiday. Tired of being jet lagged? Spending countless nights after coming back from a holiday clock watching? With three quarters...

Love of Travel - 'Love of place.'

14 February 2012 ( #365 Travel, #Love, #love travel, #Muriel Sparks, #travel, #Travel Beyond the UK, #Travel quote, #Travel Write Now (stories and news), #travel writing, #travelling, #Tuscany )

Life on a typical Tuscan street "It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places; love is overseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the least obvious. I...

Destination Maryland - America in miniature

16 January 2012 ( #Annapolis, #Baltimore, #East Coast, #Maryland, #North America, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #travel, #Travel Beyond the UK, #traveling, #travelling, #USA )

If you haven’t heard about Maryland , you're not alone. But I bet you know more about this eastern US state that you think. The star-spangled banner, Alex Haley (author of Roots), Babe Ruth, swimmer Michael Phelps, Baltimore, or the breathtaking beauty...

Top 12 London views

01 September 2011 ( #England, #London, #London Eye, #Monument, #O2 arena, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Tower Bridge, #travel, #Travel Beyond the UK, #travel tips, #VisitBritain )

Where can you go in London to get the best views of the city? Here are 12 ideas from VisitBritain: 1). London Eye - on a clear day they say you can see around 25 miles from the top - as far as Windsor Castle! The EDF Energy London Eye is 135m high - equivalent...

Why visit Italy? To search for wild asparagus of course

21 July 2011 ( #black traveler, #Black traveller, #Italy, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Searching for wild asparagus in Umbria, #Terry Bhola, #travel planning, #travel tips, #travel writing, #Twitter, #Umbria )

In despair, as my plans for a ten day road trip to Italy, Summer 2010, fell apart, I reached out to the Twitterverse, pleading for guidance. I wanted this, my first trip, to be memorable yet I simply couldn't make my plans fit into those of the Italian...

Holidays for happy teens

04 August 2011 ( #Diverse Traveller, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #Family Travel, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Staycation, #Teen travel, #tips, #travel, #Travel Beyond the UK, #travel tips, #travelling with children )

Teenage years are hard on everyone, but especially parents. The thought of spending two solid weeks in close confinement with an emotional teen could send a shudder down the spines of even the toughest parents. Leaving the teenager home alone might be...

DiverseTraveller.com travel competition: Ski prize pack up for grabs from The Sun Mousse (TM) & Oakley - Closed

01 February 2011 ( #DiverseTraveller, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #Oakley, #Skiing, #snow goggles, #SPF, #Sun MousseTM, #Sun protection, #Sun screen, #the sunmousse, #travel competition )

If there’s one good thing about winter it’s escaping the grey British sky for the slopes of Europe and North America. Not only is it a chance to get some high octane skiing action abroad; but also means a much needed dose of winter sun. However after...

Detained for questioning

16 October 2010 ( #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

12 October 2010 ( #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...

'Hot'desking for the day: Eastbourne, Sussex

22 June 2010 ( #coast, #Eastbourne, #England, #Hotdesk, #Ola Fagbohun, #Pier, #Promenade, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #seaside, #Staycation, #Travel Beyond the UK )

What do you do when the thought of another day working from home is no longer inviting? You hot desk it over to England's sunniest seaside resort - Eastbourne. EnjoyEngland.com describes Eastbourne (its destination of the month) as ... "The sunniest English...

Spontaneous day trip to Canterbury, Kent

21 April 2010 ( #Canterbury, #day trip, #escape, #heritage, #history, #Kent, #Ola Fagbohun, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #seaside, #stylishly cheap travel, #UNESCO World Heritage Site )

It may not be Spain, but a day trip to Canterbury will go some way to help me forget Icelandic volcanos and cancelled flights. Rather than let this week go to waste. I am already doing more work this week, as people assume I have more time on my hands,...

Last minute networking @ Lastminute.com (#oylb)

25 March 2010 ( #oylb, #bloggers, #blogging, #Diverse Traveller, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #lastminute.com, #lastminute.com blog, #networking, #Ola Fagbohun, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #travel bloggers )

A few days ago I received an email informing me about an 'event' for travel bloggers organised by Lastminute.com. I mulled over it for a few days, I wondered if I could I pass myself off as a travel blogger; one look at their list of '50 best for February'...

Green Brent - Happy St Patrick's Day - Là Féile Pàdraig!

17 March 2010 ( #bag pipes, #Brent, #Ireland, #Irish, #Irish folk music, #Kilburn, #Mayor of Brent, #Politicians, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #St Patrick's day, #Willesden )

Despite living in Brent on and off for four years I had never seen a St Patrick's Day parade here. St Patrick's Day, a celebration of the patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick, who it is said introduced Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century A.D. Why...

International Woman's Day - share your life changing stories.

08 March 2010 ( #DiverseTraveller, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #Memoir, #OlaFagbohun, #stories, #travel, #traveler, #traveller, #TravelTales, #volunteering, #women International womans day )

Today, International Woman's Day, Diverse Traveller is asking women travellers the world over to share their stories of travel. Stories that tell us how travel has either changed your life in some way, no matter how small, or how you have improved / changed...

Keeping an open mind regarding adventure travel

12 February 2010 ( #adventure travel, #Afghanistan, #Exhibition, #glamping, #Iran, #Ola Fagbohun, #Oz Bus, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Spaceship Rentals, #Ticks, #uloop )

On the last Saturday of January, I visited the Adventure Travel Live 2010 exhibition in London. Adventure travel is not my type of travel, in fact the thought of soaking myself while white water rafting, exhausting myself while hiking or lying down with...

An evening of new friends, pizza and sultry soul

25 January 2010 ( #black women, #Jazz, #London, #Meetup.com, #Music, #Ola Fagbohun, #Ola Onabule, #PizzaExpress, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Soul, #UK Soul )

"He looks like a black Grant Mitchell", Sharon said, and she was right. But he also looked like a banker or like the estate agent he sang he could have been (while waiting for his microphone to be fixed). The singer in question was London born, Nigeria...

Will You Be 'Naked Cruising' in 2010?

18 January 2010 ( #ABTA, #jamie oliver, #naked cruising, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #research, #road trip, #South Africa, #travel, #travel trends, #USA, #X factor )

Naked Cruising - sounds a bit dodgy doesn't it? Paints a picture of dirty old men lurking aamongst the bushes in parks and commons. In fact, naked cruising is a holiday on a cruise ship where the holidaymakers are legally nude. I bring this up, as according...

It's my birthday, bring on the cupcakes!

16 September 2009 ( #bakery, #Birthday, #Chinyere Oji, #cupcakes, #dessert, #houston, #katy, #oohlala bakery, #oohlalasweets, #texas, #Travel News )

Happy birthday to me! Wow! Another birthday, they do creep up on me. This year I am in Katy, Texas, suburb of Houston, sharing a low-key day with my dear friend Chi and her eight-year old, daughter Chelsea. While Chelsea is in school, Chi and I will go...

Shock! British tourists worst behaved in Europe

18 July 2009 ( #BritishHolidaymakers, #Britsabroad, #complaining, #Europe, #Expedia, #Expedia Best Tourist Global Index, #tourists, #Travel News, #travelresearch, #travelstereotype, #worstbehaved )

Now, it doesn't surprise me that British tourists have been named as the worst behaved in Europe; and I'm not the only one who thinks that. According to new research from Expedia.co.uk, for the third year running, Europeans have voted the Brits worst...

2. About Me

20 March 2009 ( #Black traveller, #Diverse Traveller. Woman, #Ola Fagbohun, #solo traveller, #travel, #travel blog, #travel blogger, #Travel News, #travel writing, #traveller. travel, #travelling )

Me in Keukenhog Gardens, Holland. 2009 I am not a professional travel editor, journalist or writer; I'm simply a procrastinating, travel loving, aspiraing writer. First bitten by the travel-bug at the age of ten, on my first real trip away from home to...

Goodbye Borders

27 November 2009 ( #books, #bookstore, #borders, #brent cross, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #evening standard, #magazines, #Ola Fagbohun, #research, #travel, #waterstones )

It is with some guilt I read about the demise of Borders book stores in the Evening Standard last week. Guilt because I have contributed, big time. Yes, I am one of the many who frequently pop into Borders, and rarely buy anything. My strategy went something...

Travel dictionary - 'digital detox' holiday

04 January 2012 ( #de-tech detox, #detox, #digital detox holiday, #Gadgets, #holiday, #more money than sense, #new year resolutions, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #St Vincents and The Grenadines, #travel, #travel research )

If you are addicted to your gadgets and have four grand to spare, get in touch, for half that price let me know when you are on holiday, and I will come round the day before you go and take away all your gadgets, returning them them when you get back....

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

23 October 2010 ( #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...

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