Category: Travel

Tips for getting started in travel writing

Just a few points to consider to get you started in travel writing:   • Write in the first person, past tense (or present if need be), and make your story a personal account, mixed with facts, description and your observations. • Many writers start with something that grabs the reader’s attention and makes them…

Africa’s best places to eat

Africa is always worth a trip. A small review of some great African cities to eat! Tangier, Morocco After traveling through the interior of Morocco for almost two weeks, I admit I was tiring of the ubiquitous meat tagines, skewers, and couscous. Tangier, with its prime location on the Mediterranean Sea, was my savior. I…

Seat reclining sparks skirmish

Inching into another passenger’s personal space has some fliers itching for a fight.   In the second serious airline legroom argument reported this week, an irritated passenger caused a flight from Miami to Paris to divert to Boston. Paris resident Edmund Alexandre, 60, was charged in U.S. federal court with interfering with an airline flight…