Other websites involved in travel, expatriate
travel, travel writing, and more information about places we've been!
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EXPATRIATE TRAVEL |
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Tales from a Small Planet:
http://www.talesmag.com/
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"A literary and humor magazine
for expatriates everywhere", this site has some excellent information
about expat life everywhere, including a valuable section called,
"Real Post Reports". |
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Escape Artists: http://www.escapeartist.com/
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An amazing site (vast) with links
to expat magazines, information about living overseas, investing
overseas, buying real estate overseas, a global reference section
with up-to-date information of everything you can imagine (visas,
health issues, etc.) |
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Expat Exchange: http://www.expatexchange.com/
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Another good site for real expats
- primarily a place to join country specific chats and exchanges
as well as open chat areas for spouses, techies, Gen X-ers, Military
etc. |
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Expat Travel: http://www.expatsite.com/homepage/index1.php3 |
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A very informative newsy website
with all kinds of links and other sources of information for expats
about the world in which they live. |
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Business Travel: http://www.biztravel.com/ |
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Very cushy, you have to sign
in and register, big on frequently flier and hotel info, and basically
focused on the airline industry - not for the economy-class expats
with families but perhaps helpful to the true business (I don't
care the corporation is paying) traveler. |
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TRAVEL WRITING |
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Travel Library: http://www.travel-library.com/ |
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Advertised as, "Personal
travelogues, trip reports, and worldwide tourist information,"
This is a decent amateur site with links to a few other travel info
sites and sites that are specific to many countries... The thing
I like about it is it is all just regular folks like ourselves who
travel and write about it! |
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Travel Writing: http://www.travel-library.com/rtw/html/rtwwriting.html
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A list of very good resources
if you are interested in writing about your travels or about publishing
your travel photography. |
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Travel Writers: http://travelwriters.com/index.asp |
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This is the site I need to explore
more in-depth, especially if I find myself in Bangladesh with nothing
to do, gulp. |
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COUNTRY SPECIFIC SITES
(I have tried NOT to clutter this list with strictly touristy sites
- everyone knows how to search the web for information about hotels
or surface background information and it is also easy to find the
Fodors, Lonely Planet, and Rough Guide information on-line. This
list has sites with more in-depth or more personal information about
various countries). |
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Spain culture/life: http://spanishculture.about.com/culture/spanishculture/ |
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The "About: The Human Internet"
sites are generally just fantastic - they are the kinds of sites
you can spend hours on with family/kids... they host one of the
best urban legends sites as well. |
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Jordan culture/life (Baladna
means "our country" in Arabic): http://www.baladna.com.jo/ |
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We checked this site when we
were living in Jordan to see what was happening, what movies were
playing and generally what was going on in the Kingdom. |
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Venice/Veneto culture/life/info:
http://www.virtualitalia.com/travel/veneto.shtml |
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A very interesting more personal
touch to this "information" website on Venice and the
Veneto. Travel tips, info on the art, food and events of the region. |
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Florence/Tuscano culture/life/info:
http://www.virtualitalia.com/travel/tuscany.shtml
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On the same base as the veneto
subweb, virtualitalia also has a terrific site for Florence and
Tuscany. |
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Bosnia culture/life/info:
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~bosnia/culture/culture.html |
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So much has been written about
Bosnia (a country that has come to age in a high "IT"
time) - but this page out of Cal Tech is the best 'links' page I've
found - for a vast collection of links to sites about everything
Bosnian. |
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Albania culture/life/info:
http://www.albania.co.uk/index.html |
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Subtitled, "Land of Eagles",
this is a pretty comprehensive site on Albania. Again, the home
page is a table of contents listing links, but you don't have to
click long to find some real substance in the writing about what
life is like there. |
