The end of the summer and start of the fall season usually brings about change. Schools are back in session, your favorite television shows return, and in the case of online travel guide tripwolf, it means a whole new look.
Available in five languages (English, Spanish, Italian, German, and French), tripwolf.com is a social network guide that offers guests a combination of professional travel pieces and user generated content.
With the launch of tripwolf 2.0, users will be able to enjoy a completely revamped look and feel to the website. One great feature includes the all new trip planner. With trip planner you can now put together your very own itinerary and immediately print a personalized travel guide. Best of all it is absolutely free and no registration is required.
You will be able to browse the tripwolf’s impressive 500,000 (and growing) destinations, points of interest, and hotels worldwide. Once you find something appealing, just click the “add to my trip” icon and it will appear in your trip planner. Pretty effortless and to the point…even grandma nomad could plan a trip.
In addition to the orderly trip planner, the guys and gals at tripwolf have even built hundreds of ready-made trips for you to use when trekking around the globe. Talk about travel made simple.
Once you have your plans all mapped out and set in place via the trip planner, you will be able to download and print it out through a PDF file (Coming soon you will even be able to download it directly to your iphone).
So for people that are hungry for travel, be sure to check out the all new tripwolf. Mmmmm, it still has that new website smell!
The peloton (which is French for large group in a bicycle race) passes an aqueduct on stage three of the Tour de France. The phenomenal 26-year-old Alberto Contador of Spain won this this year's race which saw cyclist venture through such countries as Monaco, France, Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy. Making his return to the Tour de France was the seven-time winner of the prestigious event Lance Armstrong. The 37-year old American rider finished in an impressive third-place.
I must admit that I am a sucker for a good aquarium. There is just something about dim lighting, colorful fish, and chilly A/C that puts me at ease. So when I came across this amazing video (or vimeo) on the internet, I had to share it with you all.
The video was shot at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan, which is the second largest aquarium in the world. The tank featured above is called “Kuroshio Sea“, and it holds an impressive 1,981,290 gallons of water. Some of the fish swimming around that awesome structure include whale sharks and manta rays. The song playing in the video is called “Please Don’t Go” by Barcelona.
Click…watch…enjoy.
By the way, if you were wondering where the largest aquarium in the world is located, look no further than the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.
(This video is courtesy of Jon Rawlinson, who is an amazing cameraman out of Vancouver, Canada. You can find more of his work at jonrawlinson.com & tweet with him at @jonrawlinson.)
In celebration of its fifth birthday, the people at HostelBookers is running an exciting deal – book a beach hostel for just 5 cents a night! This discounted hostel holiday will be offered at five popular European destinations for travel between July 6-10, 2009, with the beds becoming available next week from June 1-5.
50 beds will go on sale at the 5 cents rate every day during this week at 2pm GMT, with a total of 250 beds at beach hostels in the Mediterranean on offer overall. There are no hidden costs or strings attached. Travelers really will pay just 5 cents a night for their bed. Making me wish I was going to some of these destinations in July!
The five participating hostels in the birthday celebration include:
For more details on this amazing offer and to find out how to win some cool “presents” as part of their 5th birthday celebration, check out HostelBookers.com.
The results of the first round were pretty tight to say the least. For starters, five of the seven days of voting saw first place tied. The final day of voting it became a three-way tie. So who tied for first and what 20 town squares made it to round two of the most unscientific, unprofessional, uncomfortable poll in the history of blogs? Here are the results:
1) Brussels, Belgium: Grand Place
1) Prague, Czech Republic: Old Town Square
1) Krakow, Poland: Rynek Glowny
4) Venice, Italy: Saint Mark’s Square
5) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Rittenhouse Square
6) Florence, Italy: Piazza della Repubblica
7) Moscow, Russia: Red Square
New York, New York: Union Square
9) Copenhagen, Denmark: The City Hall Square
10) San Francisco, California: Union Square
11) Rome, Italy: Piazza del Popolo
12) London, England: Piccadilly Circus
13) Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Museumplein
14) Berlin, Germany: JFK-Platz
15) Barcelona, Spain: Placa d’Espanya
16) Lisbon, Portugal: Praca do Imperio
17) Buenos Aires, Argentina: Plaza de Mayo
18) Marrakech, Morocco: Djemaa el Fna
19) Seville, Spain: Plaza de Espana
20) Kharkov, Ukraine: Freedom Square
Like the results? Hate the results? Shocked by the results? Don’t care about the results? Well then click here to vote on Round Two and help your favorite town square move on to the top 10. You have until Sunday May 24 at 11am EST to vote. Thanks for everyone that voted, left comments and even told me about their experiences at some of these popular locales.
You will be able to browse the tripwolf’s impressive 500,000 (and growing) destinations, points of interest, and hotels worldwide. Once you find something appealing, just click the “add to my trip” icon and it will appear in your trip planner. Pretty effortless and to the point…even grandma nomad could plan a trip.
New York, New York: Union Square
