Day: May 31, 2016

HoneyGuide

RIP your Guidebook: Or How I learned that the Planet wasn’t Lonely Anymore

2013 was a watershed year in the travel guidebook industry. BBC Worldwide sold Lonely Planet for a measly ￡51.5 million after having invested ￡130 million in it. Across the pond, Google sold Frommer’s back to its founder after gutting its content for online use and keeping its social media accounts. Does it signal the end […]

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mountain teaser trees
’Going to the mountains
is going home.’
- John Muir
‘Great things are done when
men and mountains meet.’
- William Blake
‎’There is no such thing as bad weather,
only inappropriate clothing.’
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes