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New travel video search engine helps when planning a trip

July 24th, 2013 at 11:06 pm » Comments (0)

The founders of urbita.com (7 million users/month local info & travel platform), also launched a very promising and useful travel videos site: travideos.com. Despite it being so new it has already got an impressive number of visits: over 2 million unique visitors! I usually get contacted rather often with promoting emails of all kind of […]

Travel Time

July 2nd, 2013 at 11:26 pm » Comments (0)

Cowboy On The Llama Time Trail. “SIXTEEN years ago – that is to say, in the year 1836 – a huge pile of dirty-looking sacks, filled with some fibrous material which bore a strong resemblance to superannuated horse-hair, or frowsy elongated wool, or anything else unpleasant and unattractive, were landed at Liverpool. When those queer […]

Europe Trip Preparations: Video Camera GoPro Hero 2

June 24th, 2012 at 9:01 pm » Comments (2)

Our trip preparations before our long Europe road trip of approximately 750 km this summer continues. Now we got a new video camera, an action video camera actually: a GoPro Hero 2 Outdoor Edition. Small, effective, practical and very outdoorsy. Photo taken with my iPhone, not very good but you get the picture – how […]