Let’s start with a little exercise. Raise your hand if you: 1. Have had a great meal out 2. Love to try new places to eat 3. Can recall a memory of a meal shared with a friend or family member You probably raised your hand to all three, right? Now raise your hand if … Continued
For travel-writers looking to make it in the digital age, Travel Writing 2.0 is a must-have. So much has changed in the last few decades that professional travelers need to think just as much about their brand as they do about discovering new destinations. Author Tim Leffel offers an accompanying blog to assist writers in the industry with up-to-date … Continued
Enjoy this excerpt from the Prologue of the book WIDE-OPEN WORLD by John Marshall. Copyright © 2015 by John Marshall. Reprinted by arrangement with Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. From inside the Human Kitchen, I watched the spider monkeys begin to arrive. They … Continued
Please enjoy this excerpt from Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong by Susan Blumberg-Kason The Chinese University of Hong Kong sits atop a mountain, north of Hong Kong Island and twenty minutes south of the mainland China border. When I arrived on campus in 1990 for a college exchange year, I … Continued
I enjoyed the book, “Falling in Honey; How a Tiny Greek Island Stole My Heart” by Jennifer Barclay and wrote about it for the Huffington Post. I asked if we could share an excerpt and she said YES! From the book, “Falling in Honey; How a Tiny Greek Island Stole My Heart:” Tilos is a tiny … Continued
Here at We Said Go Travel, we love books! Enjoy an excerpt from THE SICILIAN MAFIA: A TRUE CRIME TRAVEL GUIDE and be transported to Sicily! A unusual new travel guide to Sicily becomes an illustrated journey to the heart of the Mafia. In The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide, San Francisco author Carl Russo takes … Continued
If the company you travel with changed its philosophy and the way it does business, and improved the way the money was distributed from your vacation, you could fight inequality just by going on vacation. I am also a firm believer that there is no faster path to peace than people getting to know … Continued
Thank you to Amy Sommer at Westside Today for her story, Traveling Around the World…in Sin about our memoir, Traveling in Sin. “Traveling in Sin” is a love story and travel memoir rolled in to a single, enjoyable book. Written by George Rajna and Lisa Niver Rajna, the travelers who fell in love while traversing the … Continued