Welcome back to Urban Lowdown - the travel guide written by students, expats and other well meaning vagabonds who are living abroad as we speak. Unlike printed guidebooks, Urban Lowdown tells it like it is.
November 19th, 2006
Istanbul, Before You Go, Culture, Traveling
It was stupid of us to fly to Istanbul from London instead of Edinburgh. It turned out we had to take the train from Edinburgh to London in the morning, wait overnight for the flight at Heathrow till the next morning. After flying from Heathrow to Frankfurt, we changed a flight to Istanbul...
November 17th, 2006
Edinburgh, Food and Drink, Music and Clubs, Working Abroad
Currently, I work at a Starbucks store in the city centre of Edinburgh. Although my working life isn’t that different from my student life before, the people I hang out with are different...
October 27th, 2006
One of the most stressful experiences of navigating through Delhi - or any major Indian city - is the infinitely repeated process of bargaining with your rickshaw-walla...
October 16th, 2006
Look south of the Korean peninsula and you’ll see an island shaped like a peanut. That little speck in the Korea Strait is Jeju (sometimes spelled Cheju, pronounced JAY-joo). No visit to Korea is complete without a stopover to the island of “wind, women, and stones...
October 12th, 2006
Chiang Mai, Culture, Getting Around, Traveling
I like to get out of Bangkok when I can. I find the noise, pollution, traffic and scale of Bangkok a little wearisome. Recently I took a road trip to the Chiang Rai region in the very north of the country. It was was a lot of fun, very relaxing and we collected some great pictures...
September 4th, 2006
City Roads
The streets are flat and conducive for people to travel on electrically-charged bicycle. These are very popular, silent, pollution-free and fast enough to travel from A to B. The roads here are particular friendly to cyclists, with a lane reserved for cyclists only...
September 1st, 2006
Buenos Aires is like a Victorian bride from an old family who awakes on the morning of her wedding to discover her entire fortune vanished, collapsed into the void of an economic crash.
There is not even enough to now pay for the carriage to the church, but undaunted, she walks instead...
August 28th, 2006
Amid the array of gothic and renaissance structures in Prague's Old Town, you'll find a number of intriguing wine bars tucked away in the deep and dark history of the Czech Republic...
August 15th, 2006
Most Japanese view Mt Fuji as a beautiful mountain to view from afar, but not so pretty up close...
August 14th, 2006
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Culture, Entertainment, General Info
I've just moved to Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of the state of Chipas, in the south of Mexico. I'll be here for a year, teaching English and sharing insider information about this medium-sized city nestled in a canyon...
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