http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73-lonely-planet-blog/ Lonely Planet blog Syndication Wed, 23 May 2012 19:18:18 +0000 team@gourmetindia.com (TravelSwami) IP.Blog 60 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-201-76-second-travel-show-monopoly-travel/ 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...]]> Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:31:11 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-201-76-second-travel-show-monopoly-travel/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-200-lp-top-16-college-football-poll-week-5/
Meanwhile, Bama maintains its #1 with...]]> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:12:05 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-200-lp-top-16-college-football-poll-week-5/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-199-malicious-malfeasants-malign-lonely-planet/
These villains used an advertising graphic copied from lonelyplanet.com, promoting a sale on Lonely Planet guidebooks. It looked like...]]> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:02:28 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-199-malicious-malfeasants-malign-lonely-planet/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-198-lp-college-football-poll-week-4/ Karla Zimmerman says, ‘My mother would have fewer...]]> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:15:58 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-198-lp-college-football-poll-week-4/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-197-australian-road-trip-adelaide-to-coober-pedy/ 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...]]> Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:23:06 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-197-australian-road-trip-adelaide-to-coober-pedy/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-196-lp-top-16-college-football-poll-week-3/

See Week Two’s poll...]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:11:34 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-196-lp-top-16-college-football-poll-week-3/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-195-76-second-travel-show-why-are-english-travel-writers-better-than-americans/ 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...]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:44:26 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-195-76-second-travel-show-why-are-english-travel-writers-better-than-americans/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-194-hugging-lessons-with-andrew-zimmern/
What happens when you combine Andrew Zimmern of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Lonely Planet and TBEXin New York City? You get closer to the essence of...]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:32:53 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-194-hugging-lessons-with-andrew-zimmern/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-193-why-we-travel-flashcard-version/ 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...]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:29:22 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-193-why-we-travel-flashcard-version/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-192-ohio-state-tops-lps-top-16-college-football-poll/
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...]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:22:06 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-192-ohio-state-tops-lps-top-16-college-football-poll/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-188-from-the-lonely-planet-magazine-insider-news-and-tip-offs/ Tom Hall shares his latest insider news and tip-offs. This month: vintage guidebooks, new rail routes in England, big airlines getting in bed together, parking at airports and the airport that’s become a...]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:35:33 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-188-from-the-lonely-planet-magazine-insider-news-and-tip-offs/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-187-world-cup-opener-in-nyc/
Today New York City watched South Africa and Mexico kick off the first World Cup held in Africa. I spent the first half at Madiba, a great South African restaurant in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene, and the second at the Haab Mexican cafĂ© in Queens’...]]> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:33:49 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-187-world-cup-opener-in-nyc/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-186-meet-the-beautiful-suitcase-backpack/
For most travellers,...]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:58:47 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-186-meet-the-beautiful-suitcase-backpack/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-185-76-second-travel-show-americas-best-beach/
MICRO-GUIDE TO SOUTHAMPTON, NY

For many New Yorkers, the Hamptons — out at the acceptable end of Long Island — looms like a flashback from Lisa Birnbach’s 1980 spoof ‘The...]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:59:07 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-185-76-second-travel-show-americas-best-beach/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-184-looking-ahead-to-summer-in-europe/ Greece

Myrtos Beach, Kefalonia

Looking for a good deal? You might wish to make this the summer to try a spot of Greek island-hopping. Persistent concerns about cost, plus last month’s riots in Athens look to have put off summer holidaymakers, with...]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:07:15 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-184-looking-ahead-to-summer-in-europe/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-183-our-1000-ultimate-experiences-app-free-for-3-days/

It’s that time of year: the annual D: All Things Digital conference, hosted by the Wall Street Journal, is on. Our CEO, Matt, wanted to make our...]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:23:45 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-183-our-1000-ultimate-experiences-app-free-for-3-days/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-182-lonely-planet-meets-mastermind/

Jesse Honey, one of the finalists in BBC TV’s Mastermind 2010, knows his onions when it comes to travel as well. Jesse had to get through three tough rounds to het to the final, answering...]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 02:10:47 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-182-lonely-planet-meets-mastermind/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-181-heavy-metal-travel-podcast/

It has to be said. Our latest travel podcast featuring PRI: The World’s Clark Boyd,  (an unusually giddy) Lonely Planet UK Travel Editor Tom...]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 15:16:00 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-181-heavy-metal-travel-podcast/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-120-country-driving/ Terrific. Peter Hessler has written the best book I’ve read on contemporary everyday China. Depending on where you see Country Driving it might be subtitled Three Journeys Across a Changing China or A Journey through China from Farm to Factory. Peter, a long term China...]]> Wed, 26 May 2010 06:07:50 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-120-country-driving/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-105-what-douglas-adams-teaches-us-about-travel/ Do you know where your towel is?

It’s a question every traveller should ask, according to the exceptionally clever Douglas Adams, author of the ultimate guidebook, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. A...]]> Wed, 26 May 2010 03:40:10 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-105-what-douglas-adams-teaches-us-about-travel/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-104-why-are-londons-olympic-mascots-so-creepy/ The mascots of the 2012 London Olympics have just shown their...]]> Wed, 26 May 2010 01:14:46 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-104-why-are-londons-olympic-mascots-so-creepy/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-103-76-second-travel-show-how-to-get-lost/ LET’S GET LOST
So, after six seasons of curlicued characters and plot-lines that even the producers admitted they made up as they went along, that TV series...]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 14:20:12 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-103-76-second-travel-show-how-to-get-lost/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-102-from-the-lonely-planet-magazine-insider-news-and-tip-offs/ Tom Hall shares his latest insider news and tip-offs. This month: volcano travel assurances, rail and sail to Holland, Saudi Arabian access, round-the-world routes  and a design hotel in London’s East End.

This article originally appeared in the...]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:40 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-102-from-the-lonely-planet-magazine-insider-news-and-tip-offs/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-119-big-trees/ Albany with its whaling station. Then I made two stops to check Western Australia’s big trees, there are plenty of them in the south-west corner of the...]]> Mon, 24 May 2010 00:19:29 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-119-big-trees/ http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-101-introducing-our-new-local-chinese-guides/

Lonely Planet is proud to announce the launch of a new guidebook series – produced in Chinese by Chinese authors for domestic Chinese travellers.

Today, Lonely Planet guidebooks are the most popular series in China for international destinations, with close...]]> Fri, 21 May 2010 07:00:22 +0000 http://www.gourmetindia.com/travel/blog/73/entry-101-introducing-our-new-local-chinese-guides/