Comments on: How to spot a guidebook writer

By: Janine

Janine — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:33:26 +0000

batting your eyelashes and smiling sweetly? Yes Leif, you cute widdle guidebook writer you!

By: nomadic matt

nomadic matt — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:25:53 +0000

i knew I’ve come across your kind before!! hilarious. I was just in the LP office in London and was talking to my friend who works in marketing and we both had good things to say about you. You’re well known there…..

By: Lysa

Lysa — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:41:12 +0000

Have just read your follow-up twitter and am withdrawing my previously-expressed interest in the blueberryness.
Avoid the beaches at Costinesti this trip. They’ve been having “sanitation engineer issues” of late. I’m being modest when using the phrase “riddled with garbage” to describe what I saw. Also saw what appeared to be a backhoe attempting to effect a clean-up of sorts. It was sad. I cried on the inside. And somewhere, a fairy died.

By: traveler tim

traveler tim — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:02:33 +0000

Here’s one more. The one person who is holed up in their room or using a laptop at night where there’s wi-fi, writing while looking at brochures and notes, at the same time everyone else is looking completely relaxed and is getting sloshed until the wee hours in the lounge. Ah, the glamorous life of a travel writer…

By: xplorio

xplorio — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:15:18 +0000

Leif, if you go to Tulcea tomorrow, DON’T chose the highway, it will be crammed with gazillions of people rushing for the weekend tan at the Black Sea.

Instead take the following route: Brasov (DN11) – Intorsura Buzaului (DN 10, north-east of Brasov) – Nehoiu (passing by Siriu lake) – Buzau – then on DN2B towards Braila, taking a short ferry to cross the Danube, then Tulcea, on DN 22 (E87).

That’s the road, DON’T make the huge mistake to take it towards Bucharest and such. You’ll spend too much time seeing nothing but zillions of cars. Have fun!

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:47:25 +0000

you realize if you replace “saves all receipts” with “carries a gun and whacks people” you’ve described a spy/assassin?

By: Lysa

Lysa — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:54:21 +0000

Am not even insanely jealous or hating you or anything right now.
Am highly interested in the blueberryness you mentioned in twittering. Wondering how it compares to tuica. Yay, liquid fruit!

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:57:22 +0000

Still waiting to hear about that Romantang

By: A. Wannabe Travelwriter

A. Wannabe Travelwriter — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:03:07 +0000

Wait a minute…I’m looking for a good hotel to sleep in and I’m taking advise from a guy sleeping in a hostel who is interviewing other people also staying in a hostel.

P.S. You need to date a doctor, or better yet a pharmacist.

By: sleeper78

sleeper78 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:49:42 +0000

Excellent everything I need to know to start hunting them. I just need a varmint rifle…