By Darren Cronian on Saturday, June 21st, 2008

The last travel rants blog carnival post was read by over 4,500 people, so whilst I’m walking through the beautiful Lake District, sat in a pub garden drinking a nice cold pint of cider, or up to my eyes in mud and rain, here’s another travel rants blog carnival.

Budget travel, nature walks and simple travel

It’s certainly not cheap to travel nowadays, so I enjoyed reading this blog post which highlights tips to help family travellers who want to travel around Europe on a budget. A favourite tip of mine is not to pay for tour guides but download audio guides on your iPod or MP3 player instead.

Top tips for a budget friendly European holiday

In an age where crime if rife in most destinations it’s good to read an interesting blog post about how to hide money on yourself whilst travelling. My favourite is creating a pocket inside your trousers, and hide your money and valuables in there, just remember the pocket prior going through airport security.

How to Hide Money on your Person

My next choice is an interesting post about how much it is costing us to travel by air nowadays, forget the price of the flight, and those horrible surcharges. We forget the days where it didn’t cost you a penny in-flight, now airlines charge for food, drinks, and probably going to the toilet next.

How much money you need in you wallet for your next flight

As you will be aware I am actually currently in the Lake District whilst your reading this, and I love walking, and getting away from city life. The next blog post features ten walks from the US, England and Denmark, and I can thoroughly recommend the Bronte water fall walk in Haworth.

Ten nature walks with literary flavour

Finally, an interesting blog post which features readers travel tips, ranging from tips on what to pack to planning your next trip. There’s tons and tons of blog posts being written on travel tips, so it’s good to read some more unusual tips from travellers.

Great tips for keeping travel as simple as possible

If you have written a blog post that you think deserves to be reviewed in the travel rants blog carnival then please contact me. I am using Twitter, Google Reader and StumbleUpon to find my favourite travel content, so feel free to add me as a friend or follower.


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8 responses to “Budget travel, nature walks and simple travel tips”

Nomadic Matt | 21 June, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Good selection. That Eurocheapo article was really good.

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Helen | 21 June, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Thanks for all the great links! I particularly like the posting on how to hide money! it made me think of these security briefs – check out the link for a laugh:

http://www.baronbob.com/securitybriefs-prankunderwear.htm

Happy Travels!

Helen :)

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Darren Cronian | 22 June, 2008 at 2:42 pm

@ Matt

I thought so too. I enjoyed reading all of the posts this carnival. Another one to come in a few weeks time.

@ Helen

Hahah loved the pants, I’ve seen that before on my travels around the web. I wonder if many people have bought those pants!

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Rohan | 26 June, 2008 at 11:49 pm

I enjoyed reading the budget travel post too.

It was very familar to another article I have read elsewhere though, so not sure that this is unique..

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foxnomad | 2 July, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Great Carnival Darren,

I think a calendar or some other schedule should be published for everyone to follow along. Right now it’s hard to keep track of when to submit posts and read everyone else’s.

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Darren Cronian | 3 July, 2008 at 12:40 am

@ Foxnomad.

The format has slightly changed in that I don’t go on submissions. I use StumbleUpon, Google Reader and Twitter to find content I think readers would enjoy.

The submission and review process before was too time consuming. At the moment I am trying to stick with 1 or 2 posts a month for the carnival.

You can view all the posts on the Travel blog carnival category which is where there all archived.

Would appreciate suggestions on how to get more comments from readers on blog carnival posts though.

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foxnomad | 3 July, 2008 at 12:21 pm

I would suggest running a small promotion for a random commenter – or the best comment. Perhaps a link in the blog roll (even if it’s just for a month), or something along those lines.

Free and a nice little bit of motivation for commenting.

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Darren Cronian | 4 July, 2008 at 8:04 am

@ Foxnomad

Good suggestion.

I will have a think about that.

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