News and updates from the Travellr team!
The very limited edition Travellr t-shirts from our launch last year are still making appearances around the world! The most recent sighting was from the streets of New York City, featuring Niko our intrepid Aussie expat from Portugal.
This week the folks over at Travel and Leisure.com listed Travellr.com in their "Best Travel-Advisory Websites" list. We're thrilled and thought we'd share the news!
Mark Orwall writes: "Have a question about security (or almost any other topic) in your destination? Just ask Travellr, where your query is answered by an international community of globe-trotters who volunteer their expertise."
From the list we also liked worldtravelwatch.com, which is a compilation of news reports from two adventure-travel journalists. They website provide in-depth travel warnings and news about specific area.
Safe travels!
If any travel websites would like to be included in the project then please get in touch with us – we’d love to include more content!
We love hearing other people's experiences using Travellr.com. The Irish Times gave us a mention in a list of useful travel research tools -
explore.travellr is a web mashup created by university students from the School of CIS in Tasmania. It allows users to search and explore travel-related content from Travellr, World Nomads Adventures, Flickr and Twitter.
The purpose of the project is to explore different ways to find and display travel and destination information from the web. For example, searching for "Skiing in Japan" on explore.travellr will bring up questions from Travellr, Flickr photos, Tweets, and recent journal entries from World Nomads.
The technical nitty gritty - the project was developed using the Mootools Javascript Framework, and utilises JSONP-based APIs that allow the browser to consume external data sources. RSS feeds (such as World Nomads Journals) are brought in using Yahoo Pipes. The entire application runs in Javascript, which is pretty cool, huh?!
The project is a work in progress (and it does have bugs) but we thought we'd share it with the travel community for open discussion and to share ideas on ways to enhance the experience of trip planning on the web.
So head over to explore.travellr to take a look, and if you have any feedback or would like to suggest a data source then let us know!
Want to a quick way to find out what's happening with the Icelandic Volcano? If you want to find out if your favourite volcano, affectionately named "Eyjafjallajoku" by the Icelanders (making it the world's most difficult word to pronounce!) is erupting or not, simply visit isthevolcanoerupting.com to find out the answer!
Dina from Vagabond Quest (a blog by a permanent pair of travellers, Ryan and Dina) just posted a fantastic article about the Top 3 Travel Items to take with you on your travel adventures. Aside from the regular list of techno-gear such as iPods and laptop, there are some really interesting suggestions from travellers - including a travel guitar, green tea, headlamp, and incense! Head over to Vagabond Quest to read the article, and don't forget to follow their adventures on Twitter.
We thought we'd share another bit of travelling comedy gold from Vantastic's Andrew and Willie. Hit the video below, enjoy!
