Category | Travel Writing

Want to be a Travel Writer? Don’t Write for Free.

Posted on 24 July 2008

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, [...]

Brussels Day Trip: Ghent Festival

Posted on 22 July 2008

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, [...]

Finding the Words in Brussels

Posted on 21 July 2008

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 [...]

Welcome to Paris: Kiss Me, It’s the Rule

Posted on 15 July 2008

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 [...]

A Night in Chueca: Gay Pride, Thieves and the Job that Never Ends

Posted on 08 July 2008

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 [...]

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*Where is Christine now?



  • Currently traveling through the US to MEXICO

  • Past Trips (while living in Madrid):
  • Paris 7/13/08 - 7/18/08
  • Brussells 7/19/08 - 7/21/08
  • Lisboa 8/5/08 - 8/8/08
  • Venice, Bologna, Croatia 8/13/09 - 8/19/08
  • La Tomatina (Valencia area) 8/25/08 - 8/28/08
  • Canary Islands 9/2/08 - 9/6/08
  • Dublin 9/8/08 - 9/12/08
  • Morocco 9/15/08 - 9/18/08
  • and returned to Vermont on 9/20/08.


Tenative travel dates

  • Updated on my Dopplr Profile
    • Belize City in December
    • Antigua Guatemala in December
    • Tegucigalpa in January
    • San Salvador in January
    • Managua in February
    • San José in February
    • Panamá in March
    • Cartagena in March
    • Quito in April
    • Lima in April
    • Santiago in May
    • Buenos Aires in May
    • Sao Paulo in May
    • Caracas in July
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