Recent Posts Tagged With Local

• Local Travel – Launched!

  Posted on Monday March 15th, 2010 at 12:31 am in travel Local twitter local travel

  Last week, WHL Group and Spotted by Locals launched www.LocalTravelMovement.com, a website where we plan to unite people and organizations with a passion for Local Travel. The news of our launch spread fast, especially on Twitter, even though we ha...

• All Guardian posts

  Posted on Monday February 15th, 2010 at 10:05 pm in travel Local guardian in the media

  As you may know, we’ve been collaborating with The Guardian for a while now. About every month, they pick and publish some of Spotters’ local travel tips. Because it’s a bit difficult to find all Spotted by Locals articles on the ...

• Local accommodation networks

  Posted on Thursday January 7th, 2010 at 10:15 pm in Local accomodation local travel experience local experience

  Vicky Baker of www.GoingLocalTravel.com, wrote an interesting post about the emergence of online accommodation networks. Online accomodation networks are websites  that enable you to bypass hotels and rent a place to sleep from locals, swap your ow...

• Local independent coffee

  Posted on Sunday October 4th, 2009 at 10:13 pm in Local coffee various independent food & drinks

  Vicky Baker wrote a nice article about the “independent” coffeeshop revolution. “We’re tired of the Costas, the Neros, the Starbucks. This month Starbucks unveiled a new plan to try and inject some personality into its stores. Th...

• Amsterdam! Interview Bart

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pm in Local amsterdam bart spotter cityblog

  Today we have an interview with Bart Verbunt, Spotter for our Amsterdam cityblog Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I have been studying for eight years now: finished a study in Business Administration four years ago but decided that the subje...

• Berlin! Interview Bassma

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm in Local berlin interview spotter spotter interviews

  Today we have an interview with Bassma Fattal, Spotter for our Berlin cityblog Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I’m a cultural smorgasbord of contradictions.  I’m a 30 year old writer, singer, and all round dreamer, who recently g...

• We like guidebooks

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 10:31 pm in travel internet Local guidebook travelguide

  We sometimes criticize guidebooks on our website. Our main cricicism: 1) Guidebooks are often not written by locals, but by journalists that don’t live in the place they write about. For these writers, it’s difficult to stay up-to-date ...

• Hyperlocal tips

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 10:00 pm in technology Local boston hyperlocal beacon hill

  EveryBlock.com is a website that helps you keep track of what’s happening in your neighbourhood You can register on this website, and add local news about your “block”  - information on building permits, real estate, etc. It also show...

• Paris daily photo

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 10:07 pm in Photography Local paris photoblog photoblogs

  This is a photo from Paris daily photo by Eric Tenin. Check out the other city photoblogs we discussed on this blog. By the way, Our Spotter Fred Moussaïan has taken a very similar, and also nice picture of the Paris Royal Gardens last week!...

• Unusual Paris walks

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 10:36 pm in Local paris various tours adam

  One of our Paris cityblog Spotters, Adam Roberts, has just published his first free to download walking tour of the city. After running the Invisible Paris blog for nearly a year, he has now decided to group together his posts on unusual and sometime...

• Goodbye London

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 10:29 pm in music video Local London animations

  Luke Jackson sent us this  cool video with nice London animations. It was animated onto photos of Camden, Hampstead Heath, Piccadilly Circus and other favourite parts of London. More Luke Jackson on Myspace...

• Cartoon Walk Brussels

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 10:00 pm in Local cartoon tours walks brussels

  Our Brussels Spotter Renata recently wrote about a nice comics tour in Brussels It’s a great way to discover the great Belgian comics history. Belgium has produced classics such as Tintin (Kuifje), Lucky Luke and The Smurfs. Read more about the...

• In Paris the streets are talking

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm in Local paris blind sensory pedestrian crossing

  I love to indulge in serious flânerie, also known as aimlessly loitering, and Paris is the perfect city to practice that. As I’m blind, it sometimes takes more effort to loiter effectively and sufficiently aimlessly, as needing to navigate by ...

• 21 new Twitter-channels!

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 03:59 am in Mobile Local various amsterdam twitter

  We have launched 21 new Twitter-channels, one for each of our destinations! On each of these channels, travelers to a specific city in Europe can find the most recent local tips. On Twitter.com/LocalAmsterdam for example, visitors planning to visit ...