While it would be better to be out traveling, unless you’re Andy Jarosz, you might be at home, like me, dreaming about your next trip. I get my at-home travel fix with the one thing I don’t want to lug around in my carry-on: Books! Here are the four I’ll be reading this month. Pagan [...]
Entries from March 25th, 2010
April Reading List
March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Celeb spotting, Reading List
Tags:Japan·Kate Moss·London·Madonna·New York City·Paris·Peggy Guggenheim·Spain
Travel Movies We Love: Marie Antoinette’s Equivalent of Martha Stewart’s Turkey Hill
March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Travel Movies We Love
#8. “Marie Antoinette” (2006) If I could find the modern-day travel-writer equivalent of Sofia Coppola, I’d be ecstatic. She basically took the tried-and-true formula of period pieces and turned it upside down. And not without a serious fight. We need the same for travel. “Marie Antoinette” garnered more headlines for being booed during the Cannes film [...]
Retro Stewardess Chic
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Good design, Transportation bliss
As described in a brief write-up and online photo gallery in the New York Times Style section, the Delta Museum has posted a fun collection of photos of stewardess uniforms. Because a curator was involved, it’s specific: prop-era outfits (1940-1959) and jet-age flight attendant uniforms. Dig this option from renown Hollywood designer Edith Head: We [...]
Travel Movies We Love: The CGI Girl in the Curl
March 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
#9. “Blue Crush” (2002) To be clear, “Blue Crush” is not a good movie. If you look closely enough, you can distinctly make out a CGI head of Kate Bosworth on some other real surfer-lady body. “Blue Crush” is only good in that good-bad way, like Patrick Swayze movies are good-bad. “Riding Giants” shows the [...]
Travel Movies We Love: The Africa Movie without Meryl Streep
March 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Travel Movies We Love
#10. Nowhere in Africa (2001) I was immediately transported the first time I saw Out of Africa. Meryl Streep, vast swaths of the Serengeti. Robert Redford. What’s not to love? It immediately made me want to go to the continent. The problem, unfortunately, is that because it came out in 1985, it now feels very [...]
Travel Movies We Love: The Giveaway!
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Novelty, Travel Movies We Love
We love movies that inspire us to travel almost as much as we love travel itself. We’re counting down our top 10 travel films and would like you to be a part of it. Post a comment on any of the 10 movies as we count them down or tweet out a link to these [...]
Tags:movies!
I Wanna Eat Choco Bars
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Novelty, Shop talk, Tasty treats
Condé Nast Traveller (British edition, hence the two L’s in traveler) has a great piece in their March 2010 issue about Belgian chocolatiers. The photo above was taken in The Chocolate Line, which is a personal favorite of mine, as well. One of my favorite things to do when I travel is to buy novelty [...]
Fail ‘o’ the Day: It’s Good to Google
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, Transportation bliss
Oh, New York Times. You are funny. I really enjoyed your lengthy piece today on appreciating the ground below from the window seat. But probably part of that enjoyment is because I already enjoy the five-year-old book series on this same subject: Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air and Window Seat: Europe. Mark [...]
Quiet, Massages, and Butterflies
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Novelty, Transportation bliss
While I don’t totally agree with the winners of this year’s World Airport Awards, I was thrilled to see that Singapore’s Changi Airport was on the list. When I was recently there, three things stood out for me: 1. It’s pretty much carpeted throughout, making it quiet and pleasant. One of my pet peeves about [...]
Fail ‘o’ the Day: “A Trip of a Lifetime”
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day, The point of travel
A few years ago, I was on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in a kayak with a friend. Surrounded by Mayan villages, the lake is one of the deepest in Central America and thought to have mystical properties. Lush, green hillsides consisting of coffee plantations surround its clear waters. I let the boat glide for a [...]
