Lisa Abend

1 week ago | unpluggedtraveler.substack.com | Lisa Abend

First, a personal note: I’m in the middle of helping put on a major gathering here in Copenhagen that takes place at the end of May, which is both why this edition is a little late in getting to you and why it’s frankly anyone’s guess how the rest of the month will go. But by June, I’ll be back on a more regular schedule. Now, onward to Riga:After ignoring me for a few moments in favor of her computer screen, the hotel receptionist finally looked up.

2 weeks ago | clarin.com | Lisa Abend

Viajeros a Europa, anoten en sus agendas (y traigan sus impermeables). El 15 de junio, grupos activistas del sur de Europa planean protestar contra el turismo. Aunque aún no se ha decidido la forma exacta de estas manifestaciones, es casi seguro que se usarán pistolas de agua.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Lisa Abend

Travelers to Europe, mark your calendars (and bring your raincoats). On June 15, activist groups across southern Europe are planning to stage protests against tourism. Although the precise form of those demonstrations has not been decided, it’s a pretty safe bet that water guns will be involved.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Lisa Abend

Driven by rising rents, crowds and what many see as neighborhood degradation, activists are calling to continue the kinds of protests that erupted last summer. Travelers to Europe, mark your calendars (and bring your raincoats). On June 15, activist groups across southern Europe are planning to stage protests against tourism. Although the precise form of those demonstrations has not been decided, it's a pretty safe bet that water guns will be involved.

1 month ago | unpluggedtraveler.substack.com | Lisa Abend

I should have known better. I’ve learned that after hotels, the most nerve-wracking arena of unplugged travel for a lot of people is restaurants. I’ve written about the reasons for this before— about how, in our food-obsessed age, the possibility of a bad or even so-so meal has come to seem like an unacceptable risk, and so we arm ourselves with lists and recommendations and annotated maps pulled from all corners of the internet as a talisman against a ‘wasted’ meal.