As Jeremy Head rightly points out in his new post, there is so much destination guide content festering on the internet that much of it becomes interchangeable. Why, in essence, should you go to one site’s guides above another’s? Many websites – be they for hotel, airlines or generic travel companies trying to build their [...]
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Places you just don’t like When you’re travelling, it’s inevitable that there are going to be some places that you just don’t like. I have less-than-fond memories of Catania in Sicily, largely because I was stuck in the rain for hours with nowhere to hide, and Ostrava in the Czech Republic will always be a [...]
Hot destinations lists It’s that time of year again where every guidebook publisher, newspaper travel section and website trots out its list of the top ten hot travel destinations for 2010. From Lonely Planet to the Guardian, you can guarantee that anyone who’s anyone will have their own spurious list. And, therefore, Grumpy Traveller shall [...]
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