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Lonely Planet’s Winter from your Window competition, where we encouraged our followers to submit pictures of what they could see from their windows via our Facebook page, closed recently. We have had a great response, with a total of 411 pictures [...]

The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 unique words – surely enough to describe any situation, one would think. But as any traveler knows, the world has a way of confronting us with sights and experiences that can leave even the [...]

Have you ever found yourself slogging up the side of a mountain, silently wishing you had known how to shed a few pounds from that backpack before starting out? Or perhaps you once wound up at a posh English country house for the weekend, [...]

A couple years ago, before attending a powerhouse travel conference – complete with PowerPoint, flowcharts, the whole deal – I made a t-shirt. A plain blue tee, with white block letters that read ‘TRAVEL IS FUN.’ I wore it as a gentle [...]

So it begins! Some say, a nutty few anyway, that doomsday is coming December 21, 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar clicks to a close. Well, look on the bright side: that gives us about 12 more months of travel. We better make them [...]

In the January edition of Lonely Planet Magazine UK we wrongly suggested that Iceland Express had ceased flying – this was wholly inaccurate and Iceland Express continue to operate daily flights from London Gatwick to Reykjavík. We are happy [...]

If you had the chance to see and experience anything you wanted, where would you go? It’s the kind of question that friends like to ask each other around the campfire…or on Facebook. And it’s a question Lonely Planet wants to ask you – [...]

It’s the end of the year, so here are some of the top rated travel literature books we’ve reviewed in 2011. If either you’re after some inspiration for your travels in 2012 or a gift for a friend or family member with wanderlust, you’re [...]

Recently we asked our Twitter followers the question: which destinations have you (or will you) visit primarily for the food? As you would expect, hundreds of foodies replied with their favourite places to get their fill. The clear winner? Italy. Image [...]