Do you enjoy writing about travel just as much as you love reading about other's adventures? Or perhaps you just dream of getting paid to travel. Whatever you motivation, Rough Guide, in conjunction with Hotels.com, WorldNomads.com and Intrepid Travel, might have the perfect, Tokyo-bound deal for you.

It's a travel writing scholarship of sorts, except you don't need to be a student. In order to win an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Tokyo for the purpose of updating the Rough Guides Tokyo book, along with travel writing instruction from Rough Guides writer Simon Richmond, you must be 18 and up, be a non-professional writer with a love of travel and a valid passport, and available to travel in February 2010. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-11-19T14:49:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/18/123643/487

The results of the 2008 Weblog Awards are in, and the winner for Best Travel Blog is ... MyKugelhopf. To be honest, I had never heard of MyKugelhopf before the poll came around, but I had a look at it and have to hand it to creator Kerrin Rousset. The Zurich-based New Yorker has a nice-looking and frequently-updated website about food and travel, with tight writing, quality photography, and wide range of destinations and yummy-looking foods. In fact, she travels so much, to so many exotic locations, that I wonder if she has a regular job outside of this blog thing. Could this be her main job? It doesn't even carry any advertising! However she does it, it's a winner, so congratulations to Ms. Rousset. Incidentally, MyKugelhopf is named after a sweetened bread, similar to brioche, that is enjoyed in France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It's probably quite good with coffee. ]]> Victor Ozols 2009-01-18T12:36:43-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/8/6/224523/8149

If you cashed a check for a Nigerian prince and you're still waiting on that payout, then have we got an offer for you!

World Swirl Press is looking for stories related to all kinds of travel misfortunes. If you've been pick-pocketed, scammed by your travel agent, kidnapped or were positive that he was a she or she was a he, then they want to hear from you. You'll even get paid if your story is selected, but just how much hasn't yet been decided.

Don't forget the details, as they want to know about every little miserable misfortune of your personal travel hell. If you've got a winner just bop on over to their site and submit away. They're accepting stories through the end of this year and hope to go to print sometime in 2009.

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Were you already criticizing the American Airlines blog by the time we posted about it? Are your fave spots in LA ruined after they appear on "The Hills?" Do you have a collection of glamour shots--of Airbus planes?

You should probably be writing for us, then. And here's the good news: We pay our writers.]]> pbb 2008-04-28T17:30:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/11/2/163946/342 For those of you who love to read about travel almost as much as travelling itself, Canadian writer Michelle Orange has published The Sicily Pages with small publisher Hobart Pulp, which describes it as "a series of letters she wrote while traveling alone throughout the region.

Though originally meant to reassure an anxious correspondent, over time the letters--both high-spirited and frank, searching and satisfied--grew into something larger than the sum of their parts: a love letter to Italy, to an uncertain future, and to the lost art of letter writing itself."

The book is simply cool to look at, too, with its passport design and full-color Sicilian maps. Mama mia!

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· Sicily Coverage [Jaunted]]]> Zulkey 2006-11-03T09:32:57-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/8/14/8715/97259

What's in a name? A lot, if that's how you like to chose your travel destinations. Steve Knipp, over in the San Francisco Chronicle, points out that the name of a place can be considerably more evocative (and pleasant) that the reality. Atlantic City sounds pretty nifty to a Kiwi, right? Until they find out about the whole decay and Donald Trump thing, anyway.

We'd add that while the name changes of countries can be frustrating, not say a little bit disappointing, for the armchair traveler, they do tend to live on elsewhere. Ceylon is now Sri Lanka, but you can still buy Ceylon tea. Burma changed its name to Myanmar, but you can still listen to Mission of Burma--post-punk art bands and Southeast Asia go hand in hand, after all. Some names are just more fraught with excitement and possibilities: That's why there's not a single Vietnamese restaurant in the U.S. that's called Ho Chi Minh City Grill.

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In this weekend's FT, Tyler Brûlé tells us the story of how he came to purchase his Swedish summer idyll. It's a circuitous story, with several twists and turns. Quick summary: it's on an island north of Stockholm; it has a detached outhouse; and it's less than an hour from Arlanda. If we're impatient with Tyler this week it's because love Baltic summers and wouldn't mind having an island hut of our own.

The real treat FT Weekend section treat this past weekend, however, is Rahul Jacob's guest "Slow Lane" column. Jacob, who is currently filling in for Harry Eyres, wrote a meditation on the value of train travel this past weekend.

Jacob's column is basically a dossier of all the ways that train travel is superior to air travel. He pays particular attention to the ways that train travel allows its passengers to gradually track physical and cultural shifts. Rather remarkably, Jacob then writes about a number of richly sensory personal experiences, all of which took place on train journeys or were enabled by them. Along the way, he lauds DC's Union Station and crafts an enticing picture of Kerala.

More! We can't get enough of this kind of concept-driven travel writing.

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