In the Old Quarter of Hanoi

So much information spins past us every day that it’s hard to take a break and process it, much less record it for later. So here are a few travel articles I wrote or I’m in that have appeared recently. Lots more to come as the year goes on, but I’ll continue to try to keep the broadcasting to a minimum.

Some of my recent travel writing

The Viator Blog published a piece I wrote on the Buda side of Budapest.

Global Traveler magazine published an article on my time in Hanoi this past summer with my family – Hanoi: Up to Speed

I also had one in there on Mexico City at Night and did a short web piece on the new Microsoft Windows tablets.

Over at Practical Travel Gear, where I’m editor, we all rounded up our picks for the best travel gear of the year in 2012.

Some shout-outs from others on The World’s Cheapest Destinations

Kara from The Vacation Gals was the first to put up a review of the new edition.

EuroCheapo asked me 4 Cheapo Travel Questions

This time last month I did an interview with Gadling on cheap travel destinations.

I had fun participating in this Round-the-world chat with Adam and Sean from BootnAll via Google+ and Twitter.

You can always keep up with me via the RSS feed here or by following me on Twitter – @TimLeffel.

This past summer while I was kicking back in Guanajuato, Mexico for a while, I put together a feature story for Global Traveler magazine. It was out in print form last month in the pretty version, but now you can find it online here: Quixotic and Quaint Guanajuato.

It’s hard to boil a place you’ve spent a month in down to 1,200 words or less, but I think it came out pretty well. Guanajuato is probably the coolest city nobody outside of Mexico has heard of, at least from the ones I’ve been to myself. So next summer I’m packing up my stuff and my family and moving there for a year.

“Huh?” is the response I usually get when I tell people that. But since you are reading this cheap travel blog, you probably understand. If not, visit the place yourself and then you’ll get it. Meanwhile, you can check out a video panorama of the city here or one of riding the funicular down from the lookout point.