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Archive for November, 2007

My Interview in Brave New Traveler

Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in Leffel projects | 2 Comments »

There are a bundle of blogs I read on a regular basis and one of the good ones is Brave New Traveler. There's an interview with me that ran there recently about travel writing in the Internet Age. It will probably ...

4,000 English Teachers in Japan Out of Work

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in International living/working, Work/Life/Travel Balance | No Comments »

Last Friday the Wall Street Journal reported that Japan's largest private English tutoring school, Nova Corp., closed its operations last week, leaving over 4,000 teachers unpaid and stranded. For now anyway you can find the article online. Japanese Lesson: How ...

Online Vietnam Guidebook

Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Travel bargains, Travel books | 1 Comment »

Robert Reid, a guidebook author who has written about Siberian mustaches for Perceptive Travel, has just released an online guidebook for Vietnam. Reid is no newbie when it comes to guidebooks. He has updated a dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks (including ...

Polite Vikings, Juggling Backpackers, and Grilled Lamb’s Face

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 Posted in Leffel projects, Perceptive Travel, Travel books | No Comments »

A headline like that can only mean one thing - the new issue of Perceptive Travel is out. We've got Notes Towards a True Historie of the Vikings, Backpacker Cabaret at the Jugglers Rest Youth Hostel, and Extreme Eating in Morocco ...