Contest Rules
Between now and January 31st write a blog post of at least 200 words on what is your favorite city and why. Think about these sort of questions:
- What makes this city unique?
- What was your favorite day in this city?
- What is the best festival or event in this city?
- Who is your favorite person you have met in this city?
- Where would you stay in this city?
- What would you city in this city?
- What would you do in this city to have an authentic experience?
- How would you meet the locals of this city?
- What should you not miss eating or drinking in this city?
To submit your entries you can either email them directly to me or:
- register on amateurtraveler.com
- drop me an email and I will create you as an author on the blog
- post your story using the wordpress backend
You may:
- include one ad in your post of reasonable size
- write under your own byline
- retain rights to what you post to use elsewhere
- link to your blog, podcast, or the blog of your cat
You may not submit someone else’s work as your own or submit spammy entries.
I will give two books to my favorite articles and a third book to the article that gets the most number of valid comments.
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I am the host of the Amateur Traveler. The Amateur Traveler is an online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations and what are the best places to travel to. It includes both a weekly audio podcast, a video podcast, and a blog.3 Responses to “Your Favorite City – Blog Contest”
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el_darwom
Says:January 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
ng time listener and always think of sending you an email to ask for an interview after one of our vacations but I never do. So I decided to do write a post, even though our trip was on November of 2008.
My wife and I went on a trip of Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore and I wanted to write about Singapore. I was delighted to be in that city as it is an archetype of my concept of “Modern Asia”. This was more evident specially after spending 1 week in Thailand which is very underdeveloped.
Before speaking of how nice the city is, let me tell you that I was surprise to know how it came to be. In all my years at school I always learned of countries being either independent or becoming independent but never being “expelled”. And this is what happen to Singapore, as it was part of Malaysia but since the number of citizens of Chinese origin was more than the citizens of Malaysian origin, the Malaysian government decided that they didn’t wanted the province to be part of Malaysia and “cut” it of the country.
Well, the first thing you notice is all the signs about what is forbidden, when we got into a bus shuttle to go into the airport the first first thing was a big sing asking you to use your belt or getting a 500$ fine! But you are inside a bus! I have never ever seen this before. Then after spending some time there you see how these kind of signs speaking about fines are EVERYWHERE and this has an impact on culture, for example there is a “Chinatown” in Singapore (which is more like an old town) happens to be the most clean china town I ever been, literally spotless.
The second thing you will notice, is that the city is in reality 3 parallel universes coexisting, the first is modern Singapore, the second is the Indian community and the third the traditional Chinese. Everyone is well educated and bilingual and you can’t stop to feel you are in an artsy American film of someone going to Asia and everyone speaking English with a different accent. For all of the above, I recommend going to Singapore, thank you
Lee Haslam
Says:June 28th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Great read, nice post
John
Says:March 3rd, 2011 at 3:07 am
Paris is my favorite city.