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OK, this is more hopeful than practical, but here are a few instances that ReidOnTravel.com has caught the attention of media folk. I love it, even if I do know some of them!

Gadler.com

‘excellent resource’

11/16/07
Author Leif Pettersen, whom I worked with on Lonely Planet’s guide Romania & Moldova, plugged independently create online guidebooks. Leif believes in online guides: ‘The online stage is set for authors to leverage their expertise and provide autonomous, interactive, up-to-the-minute travel information for anyone with an internet connection.’ Link

Transitions Abroad

‘Prolific Lonely Planet guidebook author Robert Reid recently developed a great guide to Vietnam.’

Sept/Oct 2007 issue
Tim Leffel’s article ‘A Needle in a Haystack’ — for this bi-monthly magazine/website devoted to work and life abroad — discusses good travel sites amidst all the junky ones. He notes this site as one of several ‘local expert sites.’ Link

GoNomad.com

11/26/2007
This travelers-generated site has published an excerpt from ReidOnTravel.com on the food in Hue. Read it here.

Spanish-language blog!

12/20/2007
Diario del Viaje noticed ReidOnTravel, and writes (I think it’s something positive), ‘En resumen, un excelente recurso para aquellos que
vayan a visitar Vietnam y elaborado por un autor de reconocido prestigio al que lo avalan el casi millón de copias vendidas de las 12 guías escritas para Lonely Planet.’ Yay!

Budget Travel Magazine

Feb 2008
I got a mention in the February issue of Budget Travel, and appeared on Feb 19, 2008, for an hour-long online chat as ‘Vietnam expert.’ Read the transcript of the real-time, by-seat-of-my-pants session. A lot of fun.

Vagabonding

Feb 2008
Hey, Emma Holland posted a nice endorsement of this site on this long-running indie-travel site. Thanks Emma. Read it here.

World Hum

March 2008
Speaking of Eva, she published a Q&A with me on WorldHum.com .

Bok Handel

April 2008
That’s right, Bok Handel! This Swedish trade publication ran an interview with me by a New York-based Swedish journalist… in Swedish. They write: ‘Men en annan av Lonely Planets författare, den rutinerade skribenten och redaktören Robert Reid, hävdar bestämt att det går att skriva reseguider utan att fuska.’ See the full piece here — and let me know if you know what it says.