Tweet Welcome to the first Blog Carnival of the Lonely Planet bloggers from the Blogsherpa program. Our first carnival centers around Culture Shock. The Carnival will be a travelling carnival that will be hosted on a different travel site every two weeks. Vagobond.com is honored to be the first host. To follow all the world [...]

Tweet My friend Laila from Rotterdam arrived in Morocco last Friday just as my neighbor Jess was having a henna party so Hanane, Jess, and Laila all got henna on their hands. The next eight days were like unpaid work for me, though there were some enjoyable moments too. Hanane and Laila eating chickpeas on [...]

Tweet 5/14/09 Okay, a fairly quick update. I’m not a big fan of Madrid…I didn’t see much of it, but here is the deal. I arrived at around 5 pm, went to my Couchsurfing host who had kindly left his keys under the door for me. Then I tried to take care of my paypal [...]

Tweet 4/4/09 In answer to the Rev’s assertion that it is nice to be in civilization I offer the following two photos of Sevilla’s beautiful waterfront….looks like the king needs to come here to. Despite the festivities planned here for Semana Santa, the idea of sticking around while groups of inquisition style monks move through [...]

Tweet 2/3/09 What they say about border towns is true. I know this. And yet last night, I put myself in the position of being in one again. What they say is this, in border towns you usually get robbed one way or another. And in the Spanish/Gibralter border town of La Linea Conception I [...]

Tweet 2/1/09 Ernest Hemingway wrote “How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!” and he is not the only artist to note the beauty and wonder that surrounds this place. Shakespeare said “Every inquisitive traveler keeps Granada in his heart, without having even visited it.” [...]