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Google Goggles and the Future of the Guidebook

If an article in last week’s Financial Times is to be believed then the end is nigh. Not of all life as we know it. The FT merely predicts that the days of the guidebook are numbered, as ever more travellers switch to online sources to get key information on destinations. The newspaper noted that » Read more

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Posted in Book Reviews, Caribbean, Europe, hidden europe, London, Practical Info, Russia, technology, Trip Planning
Guadeloupe Cheapo: Terre-de-Haut, Les Saintes

Guadeloupe Cheapo: Terre-de-Haut, Les Saintes

The island of Terre-de-Haut in the tiny Les Saintes archipelago just south of Guadeloupe is a little slice of Francophone heaven in the midst of the Caribbean. But unlike St. Barts, another tiny French Caribbean isle, Terre-de-Haut isn’t so French that it doesn’t also feel as if it’s part of the region. Terre-de-Haut marries its » Read more

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Posted in Caribbean, France, French Caribbean, islands, Wandering Cheapos
Wandering Cheapo: Europe in the Caribbean?

Wandering Cheapo: Europe in the Caribbean?

Three European countries have territories in the Caribbean today: France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. If one measures things in terms of citizenship rights, then all of these three countries’ Caribbean territories are part of Europe. If one measures them instead in terms of full territorial integration with their European “mother countries,” then only » Read more

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Posted in British Caribbean, Caribbean, Dutch Caribbean, French Caribbean, islands, Wandering Cheapos