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Get answers from the Book of Everything
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:27:41 +0000
Have you ever found yourself slogging up the side of a mountain, silently wishing you had known how to shed a few pounds from that backpack before starting out? Or perhaps you once wound up at a posh English country house for the weekend, but didn’t know the correct etiquette for pouring and passing the [...]
Travel Adventures competition – Terms & Conditions
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:21:47 +0000
Thanks for entering Lonely Planet’s Travel Adventures competition. Here’s some important stuff you should know. Who’s running the show? The promoter is Lonely Planet Publications Pty Limited (ABN 36 005 607 983) of 90 Maribyrnong Street, Footscray, Victoria 3011 Australia. Our friends at Nokia at Nokia House, Keilalahdentie, 02150, Espoo, Finland are our promotional partner. [...]
Top 5 most suggestive US state tourism slogans
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:46:19 +0000
The USA’s least-visited state, North Dakota raised eyebrows recently, with a ‘flirty’ tourism ad ‘aimed at Canadians’ that suggested Fargo nightlife could lead to ‘legendary’ status in amorous matters del noche. The shot, one of 10 new ads, showed three women stopping on a Fargo sidewalk to chat with two guys — drinking beer! — [...]
Competition: win your dream trip
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:00:21 +0000
If you had the chance to see and experience anything you wanted, where would you go? It’s the kind of question that friends like to ask each other around the campfire…or on Facebook. And it’s a question Lonely Planet wants to ask you – for the chance to actually make it come true. Lonely Planet [...]
Get happy! 5 rules for travel happiness
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:04:13 +0000
A couple years ago, before attending a powerhouse travel conference – complete with PowerPoint, flowcharts, the whole deal – I made a t-shirt. A plain blue tee, with white block letters that read ‘TRAVEL IS FUN.’ I wore it as a gentle reminder. Yes, travel may transform and educate and benefit places we go (and [...]
Iceland Express
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:14:43 +0000
In the January edition of Lonely Planet Magazine UK we wrongly suggested that Iceland Express had ceased flying – this was wholly inaccurate and Iceland Express continue to operate daily flights from London Gatwick to Reykjavík. We are happy to correct our error and apologise for our mistake.
8 travel challenges for 2012
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:27:22 +0000
So it begins! Some say, a nutty few anyway, that doomsday is coming December 21, 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar clicks to a close. Well, look on the bright side: that gives us about 12 more months of travel. We better make them count. So, to help prioritize how to make a big [...]
30 travel terms that don’t exist but should
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:15:39 +0000
The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 unique words – surely enough to describe any situation, one would think. But as any traveler knows, the world has a way of confronting us with sights and experiences that can leave even the smartest among us at a loss for words. Sometimes we’re limited by our vocabularies, [...]
Top travel literature titles of 2011
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:33:33 +0000
It’s the end of the year, so here are some of the top rated travel literature books we’ve reviewed in 2011. If either you’re after some inspiration for your travels in 2012 or a gift for a friend or family member with wanderlust, you’re sure to find something of interest below. Country Driving: A Journey [...]
Winter from your window: our top 20 picks
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:42:59 +0000
Lonely Planet’s Winter from your Window competition, where we encouraged our followers to submit pictures of what they could see from their windows via our Facebook page, closed recently. We have had a great response, with a total of 411 pictures submitted between the 16th and 31st of January. The standard of the competition was [...]
