Posts Tagged ‘blogs’

Travel Tour:Carnival of Cities for 7 October 2009

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Find information before your trip from quality travel guides, travel reviews and travel articles on Asia, Europe, Australia and all destinations around the world.Welcome to this edition of the Carnival of Cities, a blog carnival that lets you travel the world in one blog post. The Family Travel Guide is the host blog for this Carnival, but it’s been wandering about since July being hosted (every other week) by the Perceptive Travel Blog,

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Travel Guides:What you see here is what you get: new FTC rules and this blog

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Many of you may have seen news items and/or blog posts about the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules pertaining to blogger disclosures and celebrity endorsements.   They take effect on 1 December 2009 and violations will incur fines of up to US,000.I have rather strong opinions

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World Travel Guides:Affordable Honeymoons

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Many people get the idea that honeymoons should be spent in an exotic location where it’s located half way around the world. However, you have to consider that this kind of thinking will mean spending a lot more money for your wedding. If you’re wedding exhausted all your resources,

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Travel Information:Saving Money on Your Honeymoon

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Many people get the idea that honeymoons should be spent in an exotic location where it’s located half way around the world. However, you have to consider that this kind of thinking will mean spending a lot more money for your wedding. If you’re wedding exhausted all your resources,

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Travel Guides:Thinking about blog rank and whether I’m phoning it in

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Thanks to Wendy Perrin of the PerrinPost, I found this Invesp Consulting list of travel blogs broken out by various measurements: Google PageRank, number of inbound links, number of RSS subscribers,  number of unique visitors per month, etc.Now, normally I try not to pay too much

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Online Travel Guide:News and kudos for Family Travel Logue

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.First, a big, pink-cheeked, awww-shucks Thank You to Tripbase.They kindly included this blog in their carefully-selected list of Top 10 Family Travel blogs. What an unexpected surprise. The Tripbase folks said,“We look for bloggers with original destination, travel and activity

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Travel Guide:50 State Series delay, but just until tomorrow

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Some of you may have noticed that I didn’t put up a post last Tuesday with family travel tips for South Carolina, our next state in the 50 State Series which is sourced from input on Twitter and Facebook.
In fact, not much at all has been posted in the last week!
It’s

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Travel Tour:Great Travel Links for 13 July 2009

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Small selection this week; not because there’s not good content out there, but because I haven’t had much time to look for it….
***  The friendly folks at SeaWorld hosted me (with my son) for their 20th Anniversary celebration back in 2008, so it was fun for me

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World Travel Guides:Tips roundup for the Netherlands

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.I recently had a request on my Facebook page for Netherlands vacation travel tips with kids…. “I came across your bio randomly as I was trying to plan a trip to the Netherlands at the end of August. I have three kids–16,12, and 8. What kind of suggestions can you

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