If you thought travelling light was the best way to go, check out Dethroner’s recommendations on the top ten “essential” travel gadgets, essential being the operative word.

Via Philobiblon, I came across this piece on why Australians are now the lowest species of traveller, ranking somewhere on par with those ugly Americans. Stereotype or truth I don’t know, since the only Australians I’ve really seen are the cricket team.. (Ha, what did Gavaskar say…)

Travel is not just about the places ofcourse, its also about meeting people, and how could we forget, eating food from different places and cultures ! Darren at Travel Rants reports on Devil’s Curry, surely a dish no one would want to miss…

Finally, via Uma, a rather strange article by William Dalrymple that appears to contrast the largest city in North India – Delhi, with so-not-on-the-same-plane, small South Indian cities…