So I went to Downton Abbey. The people who run it seem to want to call it Highclere Castle. I didn’t see any cannon or dragons or battlements, but if they want to call it a castle, I won’t argue, because they’re rich.
As of now, my two current Frommer’s guides are officially released! One came out in November, and one is just released. For your health’s sake, I do not recommend writing two entire 256-page books at once.
James Buchanan was a lousy president and probably loved another man. What does the museum at his home in Lancaster, PA, have to say?
Most of the other Disney guides seemed to be crypto-valentines. The market was missing a guide to Walt Disney World written for the way most of us react to the resort.
Guidebooks as we know them have declined not simply because reading habits are shifting. The product shifted first. Guidebooks became dispensable because guidebooks, as we now know them, do not retain many of the characteristics—concision, opinion, direction—that once made them an important tool for sorting through the chaff. It’s been so long since guidebooks guided that we forgot what it means to do so.
I spoke about travel scams at the New York Travel Festival. Here are some key links for doing your own research.
From my travel photo files: The 443-foot-tall London Eye is erected in the fall of 1999.
I receive a lot of press kits on USB flash drives. I saved a few of my favorites.
What’s the deal with these bird’s-eye photos of Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando? They appear on Google Maps when you click “Satellite.” They look fabricated. Why?
On April 20, a new breed of travel show will make its inaugural appearance. It’s called the New York Travel Festival, and I’ll be speaking there along with some of the most cutting-edge names in travel and travel journalism.