I can’t remember a time when I felt more energized and happy to be back in my office working. I think it has to do with the contrast from the previous few weeks when I was laid up with that leg infection. Everything I tried to do was awful, so […]
I had lunch with Martin Booth, the editor of the Bristol news, arts and lifestyle magazine B/247 today at a fish and chips joint called Salt and Malt. Nice simple food, well done and gluten-free batter. I asked him what a few of the topics were that people are talking […]
I spent today wandering around two seaside towns on the southern coast of England. I took my time, absorbed the local history, and met local shop keeps and others who shared a bit about Seaton and Sidmouth. My original plan to walk ten miles on the Southwest Coast Path was […]
How do you meet dozens of people in the space of just 90 minutes? In our industry, we call it speed networking, or, as some mistakenly refer to it, ‘speed dating.’ It’s where a group of 120 digital influencers (not sure I like that term, but…) gather in a big […]
I arrived jet-lagged but ready to face the 9000 travel professionals who descend upon London’s Excel Center yesterday, the opening day of World Travel Market. This event is unlike any other in that there are no consumers—it’s only travel people, and boy there are a lot of booths to visit […]
No matter what you do in life, your blog lives on. I realized that today, as I have many times, when I got a comment from the wife of a classmate from NMH, Tim Carroll, who passed away in July 2011. It was nice to read comments that my words […]
Another birthday has come and gone. I think all in all, it was pretty darn good. I don’t know about you, but I am always a bit uncomfortable with a lot of hoopla over birthdays. I know that people really do enjoy knowing that day has come, and I was […]
Today is one of those days when I feel a bit overwhelmed. I am still feeling the effects of a flu shot that I got on Saturday after I stopped by a free flu shot clinic at my local elementary school. I didn’t know that the next day I’d be […]
Travel Writing is an art, and despite having a large number of social media followers, many of the bloggers in the travel space today could write better and more clearly. In this presentation, Max Hartshorne, who has been the editor of GoNOMAD Travel since 2002, provides many examples and ideas […]
Traveling along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, we’ve been treated to ocean vistas, towering reddish cliffs, and wide open stretches of land bordered by crude stone fences places there hundreds of years ago. We piled aboard a charter fishing boat for a visit to an island that up until 1927, had […]
I don’t remember ever seeing such a dramatic place as this island off the coast of Ireland in County Mayo. Achill is a place that people are passionate about, it is the home of about 2700 souls and in the summer up to 6000 come out. Some of the highest […]
Today we got a good look at the Irish coast and did all kinds of different things. We left Killarney at 10 for a long drive over many highways and winding roads bordered by hedges up the Wild Atlantic Way, stopping at Ennis and then to the waterside town of […]