Archive for January, 2007

travellers tales ~ sources of travel inspiration #2

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

As has happened since we first staggered out of our caves, people love to tell others their (often tall) tales of the adventures they’ve had on their travels. We love to listen and share, placing ourselves in their shoes, following in their footsteps, wondering what we would have said / done / felt in the […]

grief tourism

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

An intriguing site that has come to my attention lately is grief-tourism.com a site that has dark tourism, battlefield tourism and dead celebrity tourism as it’s central themes.
It’s all about tourism to the sites of tragedy and evil — Ground Zero, Holocaust sites like Auschwitz and infamous places such as Strawberry Fields & the Dakota […]