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Be the Local – great project!
Dharavi – by markhillary Twitter user @bethelocal just started following me. Of course I check out what they were about! It turns out the be a very interesting little company by two Indian students from Dharavi – Mumbai’s largest “slum” (as they call it). Be the Local offers Guided Tours of the Dharavi slum in […]
Local Europe Travel inspiration – Warsaw
Every two weeks, I share some of the latest tips from one of our (currently) 30 Spotted by Locals blogs – with you. Today: tips by our locals from Warsaw (Poland)! 1) The Krasinskich Gardens – Relax from the urban life Warsaw Spotter Stefan Markiewicz: “It’s a perfect place to just sit down on a […]
Responsible travel – does it make sense?
Can travelling change the world? Unless you are a celebrity like Madonna, or a famous politician like Bill Clinton, it’s sometimes hard to see whether responsible choices have significant effect at all. But let’s put this in another perspective: What will happen, if all those millions of people that trot the globe every year change […]
Local Europe Travel inspiration – Zagreb
Every two weeks, I share some of the latest tips from one of our (currently) 30 Spotted by Locals blogs – with you. Today: tips by our locals from Zagreb (Croatia), all of whom we met during 2 trips to Zagreb in 2008 and 2010. 1) Skalinska Zagreb – great place for cheap local lunch […]
Local Europe Travel inspiration – Zurich
Every two weeks, I share some of the latest tips from one of our (currently) 29 Spotted by Locals blogs – with you. Today: tips by our locals from Zurich (Switzerland) 1) Outlane Zurich- Where videogame history comes alive Zurich Spotter Roman Rey: “A mix between bar, museum and private collection of pinball machines and old […]
The Local Travel Movement in movement
When the Local Travel Movement soft-launched on March 10 of this year, we had high hopes but no real sense of what would happen. Now, nearly four short months later (exactly three months since we started pressing word to the general public), we’re very pleased. We trust that you too have found some value in […]
The Local Travel Movement
“The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness […]
Local and Genuine Travel
The vision of the Kumuri team is to encourage meaningful shared learning experiences for people by enabling them to share their facilities and knowledge with each other. While travelling, more and more people are interested in meeting local people and learning about their everyday lives, rather than following commercially organized schedules. Kumuri makes it possible […]
8 reasons to start traveling like a local!
We started Spotted by Locals in 2008 because we had experienced traveling like a local would be a more fun and more rewarding way of traveling. Since then, we’ve traveled to 25 cities where we met almost 300 potential locals who love writing about the city they love, for an interview in their favorite spot. […]