April 10, 2012 – 12:01 am
Couch-surfing the globe via the New Yorker
by Patricia Marx
APRIL 16, 2012
Is couch surfing for people who have no friends? How do you know the sheets are clean? What happened to “Never talk to strangers”?
“This is the last thing you want to hear when you’re couch surfing,” said my host, Cortney Fielding, a thirty-year-old freelance writer, when I arrived, this winter, at her one-bedroom apartment in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. “Couch surfing” refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger—free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment. Fielding and I, along with 3,965,492 others, are members of CouchSurfing.org, a hospitality-exchange network that pairs travellers looking for a place to crash with locals willing to accommodate them or perhaps just meet for a beverage…” Read more
January 13, 2012 – 4:24 am
Before delving into tips on traveling through Burma (Myanmar), I feel it’s my responsibility to briefly discuss its history first. Although the country is rich in culture and has many of the world’s most beautiful pagodas, strict control by the military regime over the past half century almost completely removed Burma from the tourist map. Human rights abuses, highly publicized crackdowns and murders of peace seeking protesters and monks, as well as the long-term house arrest of the country’s rightful leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, were only a few of the reasons travelers boycotted the country as a form of protest against human rights abuses. Read more...
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Burma across cities and across budgets
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January 9, 2012 – 10:30 am
In a city where space is a major commodity, renting shoebox sized spaces at a premium is a brilliant way to make a huge return on investment while offering budget-conscious travelers affordable, but clean and safe lodging alternatives. While pod hotels are something I’ve been talking about for a while in Hong Kong (I’m sure I’m not the only one either), someone is finally taking steps towards building one. Now it’s just a matter of time before he finds investors to get his “galaxy” going.
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Really, all I need is a pod hotel
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