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Vivek Wagle Editor, lonelyplanet.com

Santorini: cure for the winter blues

What better way to up your endorphins than with Santorini's kicking-fresh seafood, sea-view wineries, black-sand beaches and applause-worthy sunsets? One of our favourite bloggers, theboywhoatetheworld, is warming up in London with the memories of his island sojourn.

Bask along

No photos here!

With the advent of teeny tiny digital cameras, it's easy to carry one wherever you go, but the rules of happy snapping are changing. Our community is discussing the times and places where taking a picture can get you into hot water.

Think before you click

Photo of the day

We love the way this peeling paint has lent a whole other kind of beauty to this old building in Lisbon. It was captured by Lonely Planet photographer Anne Dowie.

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What are they saying about you?

In the new age of travel gadgets, you might just be able to tell. The Thorn Tree forum are discussing the development of smart spectacles that beam subtitles straight on your retina. So could this be the start of a babelfish-style revolution? Or just more tourist alienation?

Have your say

76-Second Travel Show:
'Pirates vs Vikings'

Most North American travellers are thinking of a Caribbean getaway around about now, but US travel ed Robert Reid is more concerned with the pirates of the area. In this week's 76-Second Travel Show he dares to ask: if pirates faced off against Vikings, who would win?

Tune in and pick a side