Apparently there are enough readers of Musings of the Global Traveller to warrant a request to make the blog carbon neutral. Something to do with power used by the host and computers of those reading the site, apparently. The scheme is free and designed to raise awareness of the issue.

Anyway, clearly this is mass marketed. If the sender of the email knew anything about Musings of the Global Traveller I’m sure they’d be more worried about the carbon footprints of all the travel I do and encourage in others.

I haven’t added their button, although I do offset some of my personal carbon emissions every year.  What are your thoughts?

As mentioned a few days ago, Musings of The Global Traveller will soon have a new home.

While there are still a few more toys to play with buttons to press to complete the move, with the considerable help of the fantastic team at Boarding Area, Musings of The Global Traveller is almost ready in the new home. Go on, take a look, I know you want to.

For readers who follow by reader or email subscription, I’ll advise when the feeds have switched over. You won’t miss any content during the move.

I’m continually adding links to useful and interesting travel-related sites I come across.

Please check back at my links page from time to time (also accessible from the top of every page)

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

I have moved the links from the sidebar to a new page. This means the sidebar is less cluttered, but more importantly gives me space to explain why the links are in the link list. I hope you’ll find this useful.

Here is a link to the new link page (there is also a link from the top of every page). Hopefully the extra click to reach it is offset by adding more value to the list.

I’ll keep adding to the link list from time to time so please check back regularly.

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

I added a tweet this button to my blog recently. I thought it would be a 2 minute job, but it ended up taking quite a bit longer. There are a number of different versions of code available for Blogger that each do slightly different things, and it took me a while to see which one I liked best.
Personally I prefer it to open a separate window rather than just replacing my blog in the active window, and if I already have Twitter open I do not want it to ask me again to log in.

I also looked for code that allows me to customise the default twitter message. I didn’t find something quite as flexible as I’d like – the code I’ve gone with forces the bit.ly link at the start of the tweet. If anyone knows a work around or better code please let me know.

Hopefully, these features are what you like too. Please let me know if I’ve made the right or wrong choice.

For those who want to add the code to their own blog, see this Blogger Buster how to add “tweet this” post with the code and very clear instructions on how to do it. As suggested by M&M I added a space after “Tweet this!”, and also amended the default tweet wording to include @globtrav so I can easily see who is tweeting my posts.

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

Whoever it is that is copying wholesale my humble blog to new sites each week please stop. This is the only true site (and now new location), the other copies are fake.

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

You can now find out the latest news from me (and a sneak peek of some blog entries) on Twitter at globtrav.

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

Happy new year to all.

I haven’t blogged as much as I’d have liked but aim to do better in 2009. I plan to blog every week. From there, we’ll see how it goes.

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

Update – this post was copied from the old site and is no longer being maintained. Please see the new links page.

Last updated 30 January 2010

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Useful references
Flight info by flightstats – look up flight information for all airports, all airlines, all routes
Flyertalk – frequent flyer and frequent stayer community
Great circle mapper – look up distances between any airports & plot basic route maps (link to old version here)
Our airports – look up airports nearby any address, sorted by distance
Visa info by timatec – look up visa requirements for all nationalities, for all countries

Good blogs
Airline Route News – very useful updates of new and changed schedules & routes for all major airlines (international focus)
the Art of Non Conformity – Chris Guillebeau says what we’re all dreaming and thinking, inspirational (he’s also travelling everywhere & writes a bit about it)
Backpacking Chica – girl meets world
Camels and Chocolate – personal stuff by a travel addict & travel writer
the Cranky Flier – good insight into (mainly USA) airline news
Europe String – travels around Europe on a budget
Everything Everywhere – Gary Arndt wants to go everywhere and this is his site which records his travels in words and pictures
Family Travel Logue – great information and advice for travel with families
Flight Wisdom – news and views on flying
Gadling – group travel blog with some great bloggers
the Gate – blogs about some of the interesting discussion on Flyer Talk
Going Local Travel -
Grumpy Traveller – travel writer vents
How to Travel the World -
Indie Travel Podcast – great travel info and advice by travellers for travellers
J the Travel Authority – avid traveller
Jim’s Travel Tips – sound advice for new travelers especially
Lee Abbamonte – wants to go to every TCC “country”
Malcontentist – wittily against stupidity everywhere
Nerds Eye View – great travel snark who takes fantastic pictures
Nomadic Matt -
Notes from the Road – awesome travelogue (great pictures, paintings & sketches)
One Mile at a Time – mileage running, USA airline news and frequent flyer advice
the Perrin Post – great travel consumer advice and deals from Wendy Perrin (& her team)
Roaming Tales – great travel writing and often thought provoking
Round the World and other travels – reports of trips by frequent flyer
Schneier on Security – Bruce Schneier’s common sense security advice and news
Travel Answerman – aggregation of travel advice and info
A Travel Around the World – couple take a year out from work to travel around the world
Travel Rants – UK bias but tackles some good issues, not afraid to spark debate or controversy
Un Road Warrior – fairly new blog with advice for the frequent (or not so frequent) traveler
Upgrade : Travel Better – tips on travelling better, and more (mainly USA) airline news
View from the Wing – frequent flyer advice and promotions
the Wandering Aramean – avid flyer, with great advice and information
Wanderings. Andy E Williams – a writer who travels
Without Baggage -

Cool Travel Guide – personal travel blog of travel writer extraordinaire Lara Dunston
Frugal Travel Guy -
IAG blog – travel industry news (mostly about airlines)
John MacIlree’s blog – great insight into international air travel treaties by one of the negotiators the Lost Girls – originally 3 women travelling around the world, now their travels continue & posts on others travels (how to plan a RTW trip post)
Mike’s Flying – general aviation pilot (small a/c) flying around Australia
MRC Aviation – New Zealand aviation news
Musings of the Global Traveller – just checking if anyone reads this
Real Cheap Air Fares – alerts for the cheapest air fares from NZ
Travel Babel – an eclectic mix of travel related posts by a travel writer
Write to Travel – mostly on writing aspect of travel writing, but with plenty of links to interesting travel stuff too

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.

I’ve added some more links (at right) to sites I find interesting or regularly useful. Please check them out some time.

Musings of the Global Traveller
Thoughts, advice and travel news from around the world by a seasoned frequent flyer.