I am a GenX/boomer writer and blogger, born and raised in the US and educated at Yale. Based in the Netherlands, I have Dutch citizenship, but write in English, my mother tongue. I left my career in teaching and teacher-training in 2019 to focus on travel and travel blogging. My first love is history, so I'm particularly drawn to historical sites.
Rachel's Ruminations is a well-established travel blog focusing mostly on independent travel to historical and cultural sights/sites. Each article offers my honest personal perspective as well as useful information. The blog covers many locations plus occasional travel advice articles.
My second website focuses exclusively on tourism to UNESCO World Heritage sites. More than 200 of my fellow travel bloggers have contributed to it. My goal is that eventually it will contain information about tourism to every one of the 1248 UNESCO sites worldwide.
Is it only for US-based creators?
I'd be happy to try this out. How do I get started?
I'll be there!
I agree! I've found that group press trips often try to pack too much in, so I haven't experienced enough of any part of it to write about it well. That's what leads to bloggers writing vague "best things to do in X" type articles that don't offer authe... show more
I had a great time on a tour of Krakow in a Trabant! The company was Crazy Guides.