Look at that. Paris’ Cafe de la Paix in the ’20s. Shot on silent ‘travel reel’ by American traveler named Burton Holmes. Apparently went on first Trans-Siberian, got first film of Japan. And coined the term ‘travelogue.’ I wish people still wore hats. Here’s the video from Travel Film Archive:
Episode #006 F E A T U R I N G * 44 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S We understand the time constraints on your life. We understand, too, you like to dream. That’s why SSTS has poured through five travel magazines for the October/November 2009 period and picked out the three best contributions … Read on
‘UNUSUAL’ IS THE NEW USUALSomething unusual happened to me last week. I got invited onto CNN International’s morning broadcast with Anjali Rao to talk about ‘unusual travel.’ That meant make-up, sitting with other guests in a compact ‘green room’ and talking with one’s fiancee (a Hawaiian living in Las Vegas) before staring into a blank monitor and talking about life in the world’s … Read on
Part of what makes travel so rewarding is finding things on the ground don’t exactly fly with outside perceptions. Be it lessons learned from buttoned-up French professionals stopping to help me and my floppy haircut fumble with a pay phone, or frowning Russians accepting me as family just because we booked the same train compartment. Here’s my favorite European finds while traveling around … Read on
Twenty years ago, I was a quarter way through my first Eurail check-the-country-off-the-list trip across Europe — London to Rome in 20 days. I don’t regret it, but sometimes I think twice about how I spent that July 14 — the 200th anniversary of Paris’ Bastille Day. I was time-killing a day a few hours north in Bruges, leisurely walking by canals, sitting … Read on
