Stories about Travel from March, 2006
Iran: Channel4 Blogging
Shahram Kholdi, UK based blogger, talks about UK Channel4 journalist's blog about Iran & from Iran. Jon Snow is heading Channel 4 team in Iran and they are posting interesting news and thoughts about Iran on their blog.
Hungary: Cliched Coverage
Pestiside.hu reviews (unfavorably) the recent coverage of Hungary in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Smithsonian: “Because as it turns out, even when an editor sends a consummate professional with exquisite taste and cultural sensitivities to Hungary to write a feature about the place, it still ends up being illustrated...
Bulgaria: Celebrating Baba Marta
Michael Marble of Big Enough Umbrella writes about celebration of Baba Marta – Grandma March – in Bulgaria.
Serbia & Montenegro: Montenegro Travel, Part One
Mat Savelli of Roma Roma posts the first part of his Montenegro travel account, which includes a moving story of his encounter with two independent-minded Roma kids.
Serbia & Montenegro: A Trip Through Kosovo
Mat Savelli of Roma Roma describes his trip through Kosovo by car – a trip of “about thirteen hours in the random cars of strangers.”
Vietnam: Eyeing the Expected
Virtual Doug has a mea culpa: he admits that the pictures he posts of Việt Nam are cliched; what non-Vietnamese expect to see. “This country is changing rapidly. Very rapidly. This is the second fastest growing economy in the world. It is not a “backwards” country. It is a developing...
Sri Lanka: On the bus
Sri Lanka: On the bus
Syrian Blogsphere in a week
A diverse week for the Syrian blogsphere. To start off with politics, Omar from Earth to Omar has an interesting post citing the major developments in the Middle East in the last 6 years. Noting how the right-wing governments in the west are directly influencing into more radical right-wing governments...
Vietnam: Cyclo
Virtual Doug chronicles the increasingly rare xích lô (cyclo, or trishaw), which has almost disappeared in Hà Nội and Sài Gòn but “is still hanging on in Huê.”
Kosovo: A Trip to Pristina
Mat Savelli at Roma Roma describes his trip to Pristina, Kosovo, and shares his thoughts on the possibility of the province's change of status.
