On my christimas vacation I went to Istanbul and found a really nice restaurent called Safran Restaurant. It serves tipycal Ottoman cuisine.

When I came back home I posted it on iwannagothere.net and the restaurant owner saw our post on Google and he wrote us:

“thanks for this! I am manager of this restaruant.My name is Raif. I want to add our Whirling Dervish Ritual.This show is every Friday and Saturday . I can send more picture about that. Tea on the house. :)”

the_wrong_girl went last month to Istanbul and we gave her some iwannagothere stickers to give to raif. He invited her to dinner and tea, put stickers all over the restaurant and told his customers about our site.

We are very happy about this, is a really nice story related to iwannagothere and would like to thank the_wrong_girl and Raif for their contribution in spreading the word and making iwannagothere a success.

Have you got a twitter account?

Link your Twitter and iwannagothere.net accounts.

Every time you post an item at iwannagothere.net your friends at Twitter will be able to see your updates.

Just go in your profile in the tools tab and there you’ll see a form you can fill out!

Enjoy it!

Hello everyone

We have two new iwannagothere’s collaborators!

They’re going to help us post new items on the cities they live in and let people there know more about iwannagothere.net

Mónica is an awesome graphic and web designer living in Berlin, she designs really cool things, check out her work at  http://mikimono.es :) she takes really great pictures and posts really interesting stuff.

Check out her profile here http://iwannagothere.net/users/mikimono

Alex just started this week at iwannagothere.net, he  is from Chicago and can find something fun to do everyday of the week. He enjoys discovering new places and trying out new things.

Check out his profile here http://iwannagothere.net/users/alex

We welcome both of them to the iwannagothere.net team!

5 international directors where asked to produce videos with the theme HOME.

The videos will be part of the series “Safe trip home” promoting Dido’s new album.

Watch Diddath Sikand’s video on Mumbai.

I don’t think female cab drivers exist in India but the video is so nice :)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YtiogPlgyc&hl=es&fs=1]

The Travel Bookers Omnibus, conducted by Loudhouse and commissioned by CRM software specialist RightNow Technologies, surveyed 1,000 UK adults.

In priority order, frustration ‘hot-spots’ contributing to negative online experiences and likely to prevent consumers from making a booking are:

• Not easily being able to find information on hidden costs (53%),
• Not finding specific information about holidays (47%),
• Not being able to ask questions about the holiday (45%), and
• Finding the actual buying process to be too complicated (35%)

Priority areas for improvement are:

• Transparency about all travel costs (60%)
• Better provision of destination and flight details (44%)
• Easier website search capabilities to find information (43%)
• Easier and clearer booking processes (43%), and better real-time access to agents.

Travelzoo (a publicly traded travel site that regularly offers hot deals and helps connect users with cheap fares) has annouced that it purchased the domain “Fly.com” for $1.8 million.

“Fly.com will launch a new travel search engine within the next few weeks that will help you find the best travel options. Please visit us again soon.”

We hope that $1.8 million is worth it ;)

seen at: http://www.techcrunch.com/

Laura Porter (About.com:London travel) has written a great list of the top 10 free things you can do when visiting London.

Here’s the list:

1. Art Galleries: the Tate Modern, the Tate Britain, the National Gallery or The Wallace collection.
2. Museums: the Museum of London, the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Geffrye Museum  or the Horniman Museum.
3. Royal Parks: Queen Mary’s Rose Gardens, St. James’s Park, Hyde Park or Diana Memorial Fountain.
4. Changing of the Guard: at 11.30am every day
5. South Bank: London Eye, Tate Modern, The Globe Theatre
6. Trafalgar Square
7. Street Performers: at the The West Piazza of Covent Garden Market
8. Street Markets: Camden Market, Portobello Market or Greenwich Market
9. Westminster Abbey
10. Free Music:
    - Commuter Jazz on Fridays at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank from 5.15pm.
    - Free foyer concerts at the National Theatre, also on the South Bank.
    - Free Monday lunchtime recitals at the Royal Opera House.
    - Regular free lunchtime concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
    - Saturdays at Notting Hill Arts Club, see Rough Trade’s free showcase.

Now you have no excuse. You must go to London ;)

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