Very tardily, I’m getting around to reviewing two cool iPhone apps that have crossed my desk in recent months. Sutro Media’s Falling for Niagara by Barbara Orr ($1.99) was just updated. It’s a comprehensive guide to this iconic destination, with a heavier focus on the busier Canadian side than the relatively quiet American side. It includes [...]
Famous for its statue of Eros, what London intersection is ablaze with nightly neon at the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Glasshouse Street? Carnaby Street Hyde Park Piccadilly Circus Trafalgar Square Think you know the answer? Send it to me as a comment at the bottom of this post (one answer per contestant, please!). At [...]
CNN first aired this video on home swapping in 2005, but the tips and insights on are pretty timeless. And even though the woman profiled has a flat in Manhattan, don’t think you have to have a home in a hot tourist area to swap! With a little work, you can probably find someone somewhere [...]
I’ve heard of people travelling from city to city as serial house sitters, but I’d never heard of someone doing so as a pet sitter…particularly when the “pets” in question include rabbits and chickens as well as the more common dogs and cats. But a recent story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune profiles Minnesotan Anne Estes, [...]
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