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Vicky Baker
is a freelance journalist from London, currently based in Buenos Aires. Vicky regularly writes on her blog at goinglocaltravel.com.Selected Articles
What do you do when a hotel specifically tells you they do not want to be included within your article/book/website?
I’ve been thinking a lot about guidebooks recently. When I say a lot, I mean all day, every day, for the past four months.
I’ve been commissioning a lot of longterm expats on the guidebook project I’m currently working on. For this type of work, this is the ideal vantage point.
Vicky Baker comments on the media backlash that followed a New York Times article encouraging tourists to visit London’s South East.
Tours have been run on and off for years, but this time the (totally unofficial) organisers pushed it too far.
The WAYN guys have realised that to keep profiles active they can’t rest on their laurels. Not in this field.
Today’s Guardian carried a story on the dedicated groups of locals who are banding together to save these services. Pooling their time and money, they are forming limited-liability community companies.
AirBed&Breakfast.com has rebranded itself as AirBnB. Why? Because, despite only launching last August, they’ve already outgrown their original concept.
You’re never truly down with the local lingo, unless you pick up the slang. This is probably never more true than in Argentina, where they speak Spanish like no other.
