The Brave New Traveler Guide To Hostel Sex will get you out of the dorms and into sweaty, awkward bliss faster than you can say ???light my fire???.
What do you get when you drop a few dozen backpackers into a hostel, soak with beer and mix in a healthy dose of liberation from social norms?
A tidal wave of hormones??¦and one major problem: where to go to get it on?
Announced today over at Matador Travel, is the acquisition of BNT into their fold.
The word “acquisition” sounds very official, but as you know from reading our mandate, we’re not about being too official. We’re about having fun and publishing authentic content you rarely read anywhere else.
Basically what happened is Matador’s founder Ross Borden, approached me with a vision that made sense - join forces to complement each community and build something out of the collaboration that is ultimately better than what we could do alone.
F. Daniel Harbecke tackles the traveler/tourist debate that never seems to die, and finally puts the issue to a much deserved rest.
“Tourist.”
It hung heavy on the air, swollen with contempt. It wasn??™t a bad word, at least as far as I knew. Yet here it was, shoved against the scene just occurred.
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We??™re in week three of a nation-wide civil uprising in response to the fraudulent December 27th Presidential elections in Kenya, and among the areas most affected are the slums of Nairobi.
The massive civil unrest began upon the announcement of the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki??™s electoral victory, despite numerous local and international observers claiming widespread fraud.
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Cuisine is intricately woven into the tapestry of life the world over.
Food is just as much a part of culture as language. Eating local is a big commitment for travelers, but it can serve to make any journey more memorable and unique.
Sadly, traveling can sometimes be an excuse to eat quick and easy food, to walk between those ubiquitous golden arches for just one little cheeseburger. At home, most of us would prefer a delicious, well prepared Chinese or Thai dish to a value meal monstrosity, so why do so many travelers stuff their faces with imitation Western comfort food?
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It’s that time again, when we round up our favourite travel related links from around the web.
Lea Woodward has launched the “Leave it Better” initiative, as a way of giving back to the communities we visit.
A pretty cool video showcasing Evolution in 5 Minutes.
Travel isn’t related to the younger crowd these days - seems Baby Boomers are increasingly hitting the open road.
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Travel writers are a weird bunch of people who tend to think too much.
They travel and write to make a living (or a vague approximation of one), but sometimes it seems as if they don’t enjoy either activity very much.
They write fact, they write fiction and sometimes they write both in the same paragraph. They consistently come up with the most creative and original excuses for missed deadlines in the entire publishing industry.
Tags: Which, These, Travel, Writer, Personalities, Are, You
Sometimes during the summer months I do a few of the sidewalk art shows near where I live.
This gives me a chance to sell a few photos and chit-chat with the general public. I rarely sell much, but I have a lot of fun. Invariably, some of the passers-by will inquire as to what type of camera I use.
My usual reply is that I have a middle-of-the-line point and shoot. That satisfies about half of the inquirers. The rest, of course, need to know brand, make and model and all the other technical ins and outs of my digital shadow catcher.
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This New Year??™s, I was horrified to read in The Hindustan Times that in Mumbai, India, outside of the JW Marriot Hotel, two women were felt up and groped by a mob of seventy men on the open street as their companions looked on helplessly.
The photograph on the front of the paper, showing the perpetrators piled up on top of the women, instilled in me a sense of outrage that I have not felt since I was in Thailand, and was assaulted by a mototaxi driver as I attempted to go to a job interview alone.
Tags: Why, Travelers, Everywhere, Must, Resist, Violence, Against, Women