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world cafés
sip an espresso at caffé reggio and be transported to the past

sip an espresso at caffé reggio and be transported to the past

In the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, just steps away from the city’s famous Washington Square, is a café that has been in the same location…

looking for a café in siem reap, cambodia?

looking for a café in siem reap, cambodia?

Siem Reap is all about prepping you to see the Angkor Wat temple complex. In this way it is the Cusco of Cambodia. While you are preparing you…

news and events

in two months i will know if i am a neanderthal

in two months i will know if i am a neanderthal

I am soon to embark on the most interesting and unique of journeys; a journey…

a weighty issue for samoa air

a weighty issue for samoa air

It was inevitable that an airline would open the door to the [not so] brave…

interested in being a guest blogger in a language other than english? polyglot week is coming!

interested in being a guest blogger in a language other than english?  polyglot week is coming!

Polyglot or expat? Interested in being a guest blogger for flying north? We are looking…

happy birthday: flying north turns two

happy birthday: flying north turns two

Happy birthday flying north! On January 31, 2011, flying north went live, and since then…

resources

tokyo rail map lite: a must-have guide to the tokyo subway system

tokyo rail map lite: a must-have guide to the tokyo subway system

To a non-local, the Tokyo subway is probably one of the most complicated and confusing to navigate. Fortunately, help is available right in your pocket in the form…

guest bloggers

welcome to curaçao: need a coffee?

welcome to curaçao: need a coffee?

By Guest Blogger Vince Catalanotto. If your cruise liner docks in Curaçao, resist the urge to stop in Starbucks. You will find…

print media

histories, surveys and political commentaries: english travel literature in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – part III

As with the descriptions of the world, so we find histories, surveys and political commentaries based on travel during this period, some of which were written by…

film and tv

och ohem, och tay, wyees, barsoom

If flying north was being written one hundred years from now, no one would even remember MySpace and Space itself would no longer be the final frontier. The site…

apps

tokyo rail map lite: a must-have guide to the tokyo subway system

To a non-local, the Tokyo subway is probably one of the most complicated and confusing to navigate. Fortunately, help is available right in your pocket in the…

gear

reef stash sandals: the answer to a traveler’s beach cash-stashing needs

Savvy travelers are well aware of the pitfalls of walking around an unfamiliar environment with cash or credit cards. Some have fallen victim to the more aggressive…

websites

want to drive overseas? then check out driverabroad.com

Driving through foreign lands is really the best way to see the countryside while on holiday. If you can get over your fear of driving on the…

in transit

what exactly was i served with my in-flight meal?

On my American Airlines flight from Tokyo Narita to Chicago O’Hare, about an hour or so into the flight the usual meal service began. I chose the…

polar regions

polarsirkelen: a visit to the arctic circle in norway

By guest blogger Fabien Reynaud. Having traveled all the way from eastern France, my parents and I stopped at the Arctic Circle during a trip some time…

unesco sites

kyoto’s kinkaku, or golden pavillion

Kyoto was quite a surprise. I didn’t know much about the city except that it was the location for the the UN climate change conference that became…