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76-Second Travel Show: Monopoly Travel

Posted by Chetan, 06 October 2010 -

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Lonely Planet

Can you use a Monopoly board as a guidebook? You can if you’re in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Monopoly was first introduced by Parker Brothers 75 years ago, but many people today don’t realize that the...

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LP Top 16 College Football Poll ? Week 5

Posted by Chetan, 05 October 2010 -

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Two weeks ago, a lone insane voter — in the AP — had Texas at #1. After back-to-back Texas losses (and countless sideline Mack Brown mirrored-palm claps in vain), the LP Poll (and all other polls) justifiably has the Longhorns out of the list for the first time in half a decade. Feels good doesn’t it?

Meanwhile, Bama maintains its #1 with...

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Malicious malfeasants malign Lonely Planet

Posted by Chetan, 04 October 2010 -

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Lonely Planet

Until yesterday, we hadn?t heard the word ?malvertising?. That changed when some cybercriminals targeted New Zealand online marketplace Trade Me last week.

These villains used an advertising graphic copied from lonelyplanet.com, promoting a sale on Lonely Planet guidebooks. It looked like...

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LP College Football Poll ? Week 4

Posted by Chetan, 29 September 2010 -

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Alabama had a tough win over an excellent Arkansas team on the road — and dropped. That’s the price you pay, Bama, with finicky Lonely Planet pollsters. Texas hangs onto #16 despite losing by 22 to unranked UCLA at home. As pollster Karla Zimmerman says, ‘My mother would have fewer...

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Australian road trip: Adelaide to Coober Pedy

Posted by Chetan, 25 September 2010 -

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Want to see the real Australia? Then hop in a car, drive away from the city and head towards the horizon. Work experience student Kyle McLaughlin recommends a trip he took with his family, starting from the city of Adelaide and heading to Coober Pedy, the opal capital of Australia, if not the world.

Arid landscapes and hot springs are only a...

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LP Top 16 College Football Poll ? Week 3

Posted by Chetan, 20 September 2010 -

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See Week Two’s poll...

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76-Second Travel Show: ?Why are English travel writers better than Americans??

Posted by Chetan, 20 September 2010 -

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Fifty years ago this month, John Steinbeck left on one of the most famous US roadtrips of all time — as wrapped up in his book Travels with Charley. While trying to rediscover the ‘monster land,’ he does what most of us would do: falls in love with Montana and Maine lobster, takes a break at a swank hotel (Chicago’s Ambassador...

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Hugging lessons with Andrew Zimmern

Posted by Chetan, 16 September 2010 -

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Lonely Planet

What happens when you combine Andrew Zimmern of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Lonely Planet and TBEX in New York City? You get closer to the essence of...

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Why we travel (flashcard version)

Posted by Chetan, 14 September 2010 -

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Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) recently asked me to be guest-MC of a new New York chapter, and I took the occasion to weigh in on why we travel – and to use some funky crayons I bought in Beijing a few years ago. I’ve always felt we need a Periodic Table of Travel Elements – a chart...

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Ohio State tops LP?s Top 16 College Football Poll

Posted by Chetan, 13 September 2010 -

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Lonely Planet is creating a weekly Top 16 College Football Poll this fall to help right the wrongs of the USA’s best, and most irrational, sport: college football.

In college football’s premier ‘BCS’ division, 120 teams play 11 to 13 games. There are no playoffs, only cul-de-sac bowl games (like the grandmother of them all: the...

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