England Week
This week is all about England. Yesterday we talked about a mystery novel based on Shakespeare, today it is movies and Friday we’ll look at a popular T.V. series–all of which lure travelers to England.
FILM INVITATIONS TO VISIT the U.K.
A Guest Post by Traveler’s Bro
Period Costumes at Hampton Court
FIVE BEST BRITAIN MOVIES (for architecture, interiors, famous places, historical ambiance)
- The Queen(2006)
- Persuasion (1995)
- Shadowlands (1993)
- Remains of the Day (1993)
- Richard III (1995)
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PDF Tags: Balmoral Castle, Bath, Best travel movies, BlogSherpa, Britain, England, guest post, Hapon Court, Scotland, travel movies, worst trave movies
ENGLAND WEEK
Destination: England, and in the U.S., Cambridge MA and the Southwest, including Shakespeare, New Mexico.
Book: Interred With Their Bones (2007) by Jennifer Lee Carrell
I have watched Tucsonan Jennifer Lee Carrell‘s writing career as she progressed from a Smithsonian internship to local theater reporting in Tucson, to a best selling book on the Plague and then created two mystery novels featuring a Shakespeare scholar. But for a bunch of feeble reasons, I had not yet read her Shakespeare mysteries. When I ran into Jennifer at the Tucson Festival of Books this year, I realized I really needed to get the books–now out in paperback. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, England, Globe Theater, Great Britain, Jennifer Carrell, London, Mystery, Shakespeare, Southwest, USA
Earth Day Travel
Grizzly Bear along Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park
Each year in April, the U. S. National Parks open their doors for free. (Many parks are free all year long, but more than 100 of the 397 parks have a charge.) During National Parks Week, April 21-April 29,coinciding with Earth Day, you can enter parks from Alaska’s Denali to Yosemite in California for no fee. See the list of fee-free parks here. This represents quite a savings, particularly if you have a whole family visiting one of the super-star parks like Grand Canyon.
This year the deal is sweetened by Lonely Planet offering a free e-guide to the 15 best experiences in the National Parks, from their print book Discover USA’s Best National Parks. Here’s the deal, in their own words: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Alaska, BlogSherpa, Denali National Park, Earth Day, Free parks week, Glacier-national-park, Lonely Planet, National Parks, rocky-mountains, USA, Yosemite-National-Park
This is week two of Cambodia pictures at A Traveler’s Library. Cambodia was one of my favorite destinations ever. Partly because I had waited so long to go there. Partly because during the 1970′s I thought it would be impossible to ever get there. So when I had a chance in 1999, I was thrilled. We only went to Siem Riep and to several of the temples nearby, plus a drive to the floating village of Tonle Sap, but it was an amazing experience. If you have the chance, GO. And although you’ll think you are going for Angkor Wat, remember that is only one of dozens and dozens of temples. Take my word for it, don’t miss Banteay Srei, the Woman’s Temple–a glowing golden delight (but we’ll see some of that next week.)
This week we are in and around Siem Riep. First the downtown market, which was right next to our hotel, The Ta Phrom. I got up before breakfast and wandered through the market. Other than the gag-inducing meat section, it was a delight. But how much can you identify?
Veggies at market, Siem Riep
Tags: BlogSherpa, Cambodia, Siem Riep, travel food, travel photos
An Earth Day Read
Destination: the World
Book: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet (NEW April 2012) by Eugene Linden.
“Tourism’s hyperbole to the contrary, there are very few “timeless” places left on the planet.” Eugene Linden.
Surely anyone afflicted with an addiction to travel will envy the itinerary of Eugene Linden‘s life. This is the sort of book that convinces people that travel writers lead glamorous and exciting lives. The important thing about Linden’s travel, though, is not the sheer joy of exploring far-flung places, but the intellectual journeys that motivated his jet-away life. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cuba, Earth Day, ecology, environment, Papua New Guinea, travel writing, Vietnam, World travel
![[Capello St. Angelo and view of Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy] (LOC)](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4711377771_9f827a799d.jpg "[Capello St. Angelo and view of Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy] (LOC)")
Lake Como, Italy
Book: 
, by Jean Govoni Salvadore
The energy and winning personality of this 84-year-old memoirist shine through My Dolce Vita, her memories of working in Rome for TWA and at the classic hotel Villa d’Este on Lake Como. Since both those jobs (as of the writing of the book, she still worked at Villa d’Este) involved public relations, she rubbed shoulders with hundreds of famous people–movie stars, journalists, novelists, fashion designers and the merely wealthy. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on whether you thrive on celebrity news, that turns the book into a running list of famous names to be dropped interspersed with inserts of pictures of stars posing as they alight from airplanes or attend events at the famous hotel. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, book review, historic hotel, Italy, Lake Como, memoir, Villa d'Este
Destination: Iran
Book: We Heard the Heavens Then (A Memoir of Iran) NEW April 10, 2012, by Aria Minu-Sepehr
Iran Collage
Tags: BlogSherpa, book review, Iran, memoir, revolution, Tehran
Pet Travel Thursday
Destination: France
Book: Dog Trots Globe – To Paris & Provence (A Sheltie Goes to France)
Would these colorful baskets look half as beautiful without a Sheltie to reflect their bright colors in her lush coat?
By Pamela Webster
Dog Trots Globe – To Paris & Provence does what every travel book aspires to: it convinces a reader who has never visited a place to want to go and evokes memories in those who have already been there. Toss in over 150 colorful photographs and a beautiful Shetland Sheepdog and you have an enchanting travel book. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: book review, Dog Trots Globe, France, guest blog, pet travel, Provence
While I was digging through photos for yesterday’s post, I found so many that I wanted to share, that I decided to devote the next few Travel Photo Thursdays to Cambodia. Today I’ll show you some of the people we saw going about their everyday life.
The first one is particularly appropriate as we await the launch of the new 3-D Titanic. Do you see why? And yes, I bought a bunch of bracelets.
Bracelet seller--top level of Angkor Wat
Tags: Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Siem Riep, Travel, travel photos
