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GoNOMAD Editor Max Hartshorne and Senior Travel Editor Kent St. John teamed up with Julia Dimon from the television show "Word Travels" to present a travel writing workshop at the New York Travel Show last month, and more than 180 aspiring writers attended.
We're presenting a list of their travel writing tips along with a list of outlets for beginning writers.
Max also has a story this month about hiking in the Italian Alps near Torino, and Kent has one about the secret treasures of France's Champagne region. He says they make wine there that has bubbles in it.
And speaking of beginning writers, we're happy to publish our first story by GoNOMAD Editorial Assistant Kaitlyn Silva about her home town of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Troy Nahumko takes us on a hair-raising taxi ride through the mountains of northern Iran, and Jane Cassie scopes out romantic spots in Seattle.
Associate Editor Stephen Hartshorne writes about saving lots of money by booking bike tours directly with European tour operators and Mridula Dwivedi writes about a perfect day at the beach in Surathkal, India.
Isadora Dunne interviews a couple who have traveled the world to sample exotic beers and an entrepreneur who is starting a new kind of travel competition.
And David Rich writes about the breathtaking beauty of Machu Picchu in Peru, and reports that the site is threatened by earthquakes and heavy tourist traffic. Better go soon!
All in all it's just another month of top-notch travel writing on GoNOMAD.com! |
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Travel Writing Tips from The Pros
GoNOMAD Editors Max Hartshorne and Kent St. John and Julia Dimon of the TV show "Word Travels" presented a seminar on travel writing at the NY Times Travel Show in February for aspiring writers who want to break into the business. Here are some tips that they offered the 180 attendees at the presentation. You'll also find some great outlets for beginning travel writers... |
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Lowell, Massachusetts: History and Culture in the City of Kerouac
While the 1995 documentary "High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell" was a critically acclaimed victory for HBO, it was a curse upon the fourth largest city in Massachusetts.
Lowell earned an ugly reputation in the early 1990s due to drug and gang issues, but since then a dramatic downtown revival has made the city a center of history and culture, from the historic mills and Jack Kerouac to art and the annual folk festival... |
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Hidden Treasures in France's Champagne Region
Could the world turn without an occasional sip of real champagne? I doubt it.
Reims is synonymous with champagne, or so I have always thought. Reims and Troyes were both definite stops when I headed to France's Champagne region. But on this trip to the area, I also wanted to explore some of the hidden gems, lesser-known places with age-old traditions... |
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Hiking the Italian Alps: Getting to the Top is Worth the Work
We motored by bus out of the city of Torino, heading for a mountain village deep into the Alps on a September afternoon. The small coach wound around the hairpin turns, and one of our mates kept putting his hands in front of his face, as he was afraid to look out the window. The bus strained as it made its way up the steep paved road, and pebbles flew off to the side down a vast face of rock... |
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GRASSROOTS AND
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
A unique feature of the WHL network is that each destination booking site is owned and operated by locals. You deal directly with local people in the destination you are travelling to and unlike other global booking sites, the people you book with will be there when you get there.
They not only know the destination intimately, but they have been selected to become part of the growing WHL family because they care ......care about their local community, about their culture and about the local environment. |
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Machu Picchu: An Ancient Treaure Threatened by Man and Nature
The Wow factor of the world's greatest archaeological treasures puts Machu Picchu near the top. Nestled between two pointy peaks at a modest 8,000 feet (2400 meters), it is the best known yet least understood of the great Incan ruins. No one has figured out exactly who lived there or why, or the reason for Machu Picchu's abandonment before the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s... |
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A Guide to Volunteer Vacations
In the winter of my gap year, I left the familiarity of home to teach English in India with Travelers Worldwide. With only a backpack on my back and hope in my heart that someone would actually be waiting there to greet me, I boarded a Chennai-bound airplane alone. I can’t remember ever feeling smaller or more alone then I did then, at JFK airport walking away from my parents into the January night, into the great unknown.... |
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Biking with the Europeans: Lower Cost, More Options
Many US tour companies will make all the arrangements for your travel, lodging and dining and see that you cover the scenic and cultural highlights of a region -- with a group of your fellow Americans. But you can generally save money and find greater flexibility by booking a tour with a European company because their volume is so much greater. Europeans do a lot more traveling, and especially a lot more bicycling... |
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Surathkal, India: Long Walks on the Beach
I like being around the sea a lot. Sesha likes to be around mountains. It is not that I do not like mountains, but I like sea equally if not more and it had been five years since I went anywhere near a beach. The best part about Surathkal Beach is that it is empty. It is not like Goa beaches; the sand is for 10 meters or so but minus the crowds it felt like heaven... |
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No Translation Necessary: A Taxi Ride in Northern Iran
The shared taxi driver strapped on his fingerless driving gloves and gripped the small chain steering wheel as he jumped in, not what you want to see when you're about to travel a notoriously dangerous highway in a faraway country. His needless revving of the tuned Paykan's engine and obvious impatience didn't exactly inspire confidence either. Things had started to look grim... |
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Competitours: A New Kind of Travel Competition
If you're one of the 9.3 million people who tune in to The Amazing Race, then chances are the seasoned traveler in you can't help thinking: "I could do that!" Steve Belkin, president and founder of Competitours travel competitions, agrees. His new company pits teams of two against each other in quirky challenges around Europe, each competing for the grand prize: a worldwide travel spree... |
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Sweetheart Sites of Seattle
Although Seattle’s downtown core is a mish mash of past and present, it all works together harmoniously. New-age high rises hover above Gold Rush landmarks, trendy boutiques snuggle between flagship department stores and government headquarters brush up to corporate conglomerates. There are countless cozy espresso bars where you can escape the drizzly weather and so much cultural diversity it’ll make your head spin... |
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The Year in Beer: An Interview with the Beer Geeks
For some beer lovers, attending both Oktoberfest and the Great British Beer Festival in a single year would be an accomplishment. For Chris Nelson and Merideth Canham-Nelson, those festivals were only a fraction of their Year in Beer, an odyssey that had the couple drinking pints in five European countries and seven U.S. cities. GoNOMAD recently caught up with Chris and Merideth to reflect on their experiences... |
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