If you’re an aspiring writer or better yet, an aspiring travel writer, you might run across several opportunities to make a name for yourself by writing for free.
I know many people have covered this before, but recent events have changed my mind about the entire write-for-exposure market.  If you had asked me two months ago, [...]

In my last post, Finding the Words in Brussels, Geoff commented that “I find it sad that it’s quite rare that one of the many languages spoken is Dutch”, and while I won’t touch the political issues around the French and Dutch populations in Belgium (the Flemish community has quite a bite of political autonomy, [...]

When the shuttle bus stopped just 20 minutes away from downtown Brussels, there was a collective moan.  We had just flown RyanAir from Madrid with a four hour delay and this pit stop definitely couldn’t be good.  The bus driver said something in French at the front of the bus, that most of us didn’t [...]

This afternoon I took a nap on the lawn in front of the Eiffel Tower.  I had been walking all morning and finally sun burnt and exhausted (and unwilling to take the 40 minute train to my hotel) I collapsed beneath a tree with kissing 20-year-olds lounging on the grass around me.  There is something [...]

Ah, gay pride week in Chueca… where to start. Could it be the wall of bodies that line the exit of the Chueca Metro stop as you emerge from the underground? Or the multiple stages playing live music, while a thick crowd bobs in unison, beer in one hand? Or how about getting smooshed [...]