Rob at St Cristopher's Inn's blog has a nice post about Twitter and Travel where he gives some tips on how to use Twitter - the explosively popular "microblogging" service now used by almost 8 million worldwide - to make your travel easier and cheaper.
Here is the story
My favorite tip was to use the Twitter version of Britain's Rail Service to find great deals on train routes:
The tip offs about when super cheap advance ticket are going to go live online are a thing of beauty too! Did you know for example that you can travel from London to Newcastle and back for as little as £28, just by cruising nationalexpresseastcoast.com and chatting with their discount reps at any staffed station? Crazy good times. Check out twitter.com/nationalexpress
As Travel and History / Online Highways expands to include socializing and social media we'll be talking a lot more about using social media during your travels.
Showing posts with label travel and history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel and history. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
World History Blog
Check out the World History Blog for some personal perspectives on world history themes. Here at Travel and History we recognize that you simply cannot separate history from the rest of our lives, and I don't just mean history in the sense that, technically, almost any piece of information can be seen as part of "history" since that item either happened in the past or is being influenced by the past.
Rather, I mean that historical events of all types are the *only* foundation from which our present and future springs. We cannot escape the fact that the past spawns the present, and therefore history should be of primary interest to us.
For travelers, a knowledge of history offers insights, context, and richness you don't get by simply walking into a place. Westminster Abbey in London is pretty fantastic even without any history, but with history this magnificent site opens a thousand windows to the past and future as one of the western world's most significant religious and political cultural icons.
Rather, I mean that historical events of all types are the *only* foundation from which our present and future springs. We cannot escape the fact that the past spawns the present, and therefore history should be of primary interest to us.
For travelers, a knowledge of history offers insights, context, and richness you don't get by simply walking into a place. Westminster Abbey in London is pretty fantastic even without any history, but with history this magnificent site opens a thousand windows to the past and future as one of the western world's most significant religious and political cultural icons.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Frommer on Historical Travel destinations
In the following video, Pauline Frommer offers her top five destinations for history travelers:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/05/08/road.warriors.bernholtz.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/05/08/road.warriors.bernholtz.cnn
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