Review: A Week at the Airport
Review on the Go: Alain de Botton’s A Week at the Airport, a slim book about a week the author spent living at Heathrow airport and writing about what he observed, is at points revelatory and remarkable, and at other points overly ornate and self-indulgent. Though de Botton’s prose occasionally bothered me, the book is an illuminating rumination on many aspects of airports and the people who work in and pass through them. Not a bad way to spend... Read More
Welcome!
Hey there and welcome to Go Girl Magazine’s new reviews section!! We’ll be kicking it off this week with several brand new reviews of recently released travel books. Stayed tuned over the next few days to hear more about Travelers’ Tales annual anthology, The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010, travel writer and guidebook author Fran Gendlin‘s recent title, Paris, Moi and the Gang: A Memoir…of Sorts, and playwright... Read More
'I'm a jelly donut' and other Berlin adventures
‘I’m a Jelly Donut’ and Other Berlin Adventures By Megan Berlin was so good to me- from the funky hostel (see my previous hosteling post) to the bicycle tour, hippos at the zoo, and of course the Tiergarten. My faithful travel bud and I organized a jaunt north starting in Berlin; the plan was to start in the famous capital, then work our way down to Vienna.Germany was an entirely new concept to both of us. All we could say... Read More
