Stories about Travel from December, 2008
Serbia: Sveti Nikola
A Yankee-in-Belgrade writes about celebration of St. Nicholas Day in Serbia.
Ukraine: Chernobyl Panoramas; Welsh Sheep and Radiation
Chernobyl and Eastern Europe writes about the effect of Chernobyl on sheep breeding in Wales, and posts links to panoramic photos from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – here and here.
Barbados: Nature Sanctuary Closes
The Bajan Reporter calls the closing of Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary a “sad day for [the] Government of Barbados and Bajan tourism.”
Estonia: Deportations, Artificial Hills, Gray Passports, and Layoffs
Itching for Eestimaa writes about Estonian women who survived the deportations of the 1940s, but whose tragic stories never found a reflection in the Soviet-time Estonian women's magazine, Nõukogude Naine. This and a few other recent posts from the Estonian blogosphere - in the roundup below.
Georgia: Driving Lesson
Ben Sweeney's Weblog recounts the best driving lesson yet in Georgia and at the same time encounters an apparently magnetic mountain.
Nepal: The Famous Mountain Flight
Sirensongs describes her experience of being on the Mountain Flight in Nepal, which goes parallel to the Himalayan giants.
China: Lugu Lake
Inside-Out China posts an article about the matriarchal tradition near the Lugu Lake.
Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba: National Shame
“The Prime Minister's gone to Cuba to get a tumor removed. He surveyed the length and breadth of our islands and decided there was neither a well equipped hospital nor...
Bolivia: Scams in El Alto Bus Terminal
Nancy Condori of El Chairo [es] warns readers of scams in the El Alto, Bolivia bus terminal where individuals are posing as employees of bus companies.
Trinidad & Tobago, St. Kitts & Nevis: Niche Marketing
Trinidadian Sharon Millar makes a trip to Nevis for the annual NICHE food festival.
Barbados: Travel Trouble?
“OK…so tourism is toast for the next few years”: Barbados Free Press suggests a few measures “to personally get through what we are going to face in the coming three...
Jamaica, Cuba, U.S.A.: A Shoe in Hand…
Blogging from Jamaica, Annie Paul declares Muntadar al-Zaidi (the Bush shoe-pelter) her “Man of the Year”, calling his action “the most inspired (and inspiring) act of the last few years”,...
Malawi: Murderous Thanksgiving, AIDS Day and crossing the Zimbabwean border
Victor Kaonga highlights a few posts from blogs about Malawi: an expat Thanksgiving, World Aids Day and a long bus trip from Malawi to South Africa with an interesting border crossing in Zimbabwe.
Ethiopia: A child's glimpse on the country
Samuel Gebru reviews the book Tsion's Life, written from the perspective of an Ethiopian child by an American woman that adopted him. According to Gebru, the book “captures the essence...
Angola: A country with huge, untapped tourism potential
Angola boasts an amazing interior landscape, rich and varied fauna, bountiful wildlife, and an extensive national park system, offering something for every visitor. However, most of its potential is still untapped, and if well explored, could make Angola the biggest tourist destination in Africa.
A Kenyan experience in Cuba
Diana Kimani writes at the African Path about her impressions of Cuba as a Kenyan.
Jordan: Public Beach a Let Down
MommaBean, in Jordan, had visitors, whom she took to the Dead Sea's Amman Tourist Beach. Read her complaints here.
Barbados, Dominica: A First for Indigenous Communities
Barbados Free Press reports on “a first in the history of the Americas” as Dominica issues a diplomatic passport to its indigenous Kalinago-Carib leader.
Southeast Asia: Citizen media events and Twitter
GV author Preetam lists the Twitter users in Southeast Asia who are reliable sources on citizen media events in the region.
Thailand: Flights cancelled because of ‘political conditions’
How did airline companies explain the cancelled flights in Thailand two weeks ago? Instead of citing weather conditions, they blamed “political conditions”. These words were stamped in the passengers’ tickets.
UAE: The Best and Worst Airports
Tom Gara, who lives in Abu Dhabi, UAE, took a trip which involved six flights in seven days. He lists the worst and best airports he travelled through in this...
