Pictured above is my friend Erin and I in front of the Louvre in Paris. Being a travel enthusiast, I often look back at pictures from my trips. I really need to travel again soon to get some more pictures.Anyway, what brings me to tonight's post is the discovery of a most interesting blog. I felt like Googling other travel blogs to see what else is out there on the topic. While I have not found many blogs that are similar in content to my blog, there are certainly a lot of travel blogs in cyberspace. A lot tend to read more like brochures you might find at a travel agency, one particular blog caught my eye.
http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/ is quite interesting. It is certainly not your ordinary blog about travel information. Rather, it features cool and unique travel spots in different locations around the world. The blog also features very specific activities you can do in these locations. Some interesting examples I found in my perusing of the blog are spending the night in a museum in New York, staying in a hotel that is suspended above Paris, traveling through a replica of the human body in the Netherlands, going to a monkey spa in Japan, eating breakfast with a giraffe in Kenya, and many other bizarre things.
Another interesting feature of Spot Cool Stuff is that it lists various links of different categories. So if you are looking for unique restaurants, you can zero in on that particular topic. The blog also features a shopping section so you can book flights and hotels from that web site.
Probably my favorite aspect of Spot Cool Stuff is the pictures and animation the blog provides. A picture really does say a thousand words. And these pictures are gorgeous.
The only qualms I have with the blog are that it primarily focuses on travel within the United States. I personally prefer a greater mix between foreign and domestic travel. Also, the entries tend to be more informative than insightful. It would be nice to have more reviews of the activities and locations.
All in all, Spot Cool Stuff's travel section is an interesting find. Definitely worth visiting again, I would say.
2 comments:
Such kind words about our blog. Thank you!!
You caught us at an unusually USA-centric time on the blog -- we had recently retruned from Las Vegas and published a whole group of posts about it. Most of the time we provide more of an international mix of content.
Currently, for example, we're in the middle of a two-part series on Thailand's Best Islands. Our review of the world's toilet restaurants somehow didn't include America; ditto with our review of the top rice terrace destinations.
So, thanks again! And we look forward to your visiting Spot Cool Stuff soon.
Hey Jill!! I hadn't known you started a blog! we need to head back to europe together fo sho :)
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