It was a good day browsing. I found: Vegetarian Duck, by Mark Morse, who lives in Amsterdam and happens to be writing about not only the kind of food I like to eat when I go out (and would like to add more of to the guide I’m working on), but also what I’d like [...]
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When the Macedonian was stalking me, we talked a little about that endless knotty issue that travel writers deal with: freebies. And I had a small brainstorm. As I’ve said before, I’m marginally pro-freebie, in that often it’s the only practical way to find out if a hotel is any good. But just as often [...]
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OK, so there’s this running gag that I’m a CIA operative. Hilarious–unless you get me started on the idiocy of the CIA and its failure to hire Arabic speakers. Otherwise, though, it turns out double-agent entendre is almost as easy to pull off as sexual innuendo. I kind of enjoy accidentally sounding like I’m spending [...]
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Arrived in Amsterdam today for the last guidebook gig in a while–I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Or I could if I weren’t so exhausted. I am too old to still be flying economy, especially in a seat that doesn’t recline all the way because it’s mashed against a pointless [...]
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I'm Zora O'Neill. I travel and eat. I'm a:
*Guidebook author for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides
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