WRITING & READING — TRAVEL STORIES
Globetrotters Weekly News — Sept 29
Clues to our upcoming monthly challenge, this week’s featured writer, foodie challenge stories and exciting new writers!
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Hello Globetrotters!
How is everyone doing? Hope your week is going well!
First of all, want to give a shout-out to my fellow Floridians, as well as anyone else being impacted by hurricane Ian right now. I do hope everyone will be safe! Lucky enough I’m able to sit this one out, but I’ve been through plenty of these dang things, so I know just what it’s like unfortunately.
Wishing everyone the best!
Exciting Clues to Our Upcoming Challenge
A little teaser? Perhaps a gentle nudge… by Casper the friendly ghost! Please don’t get frightened. It’s all in good fun… ghoulish fun that is. Editors Jill and Anne are getting things ready for us, but until then enjoy this selection of stories from Globetrotters past.
- Michele Maize (The Sober Vegan Yogi): “The Gothic and Beautifully Creepy City of Edinburgh”
- Jacqueline Jannotta: “In Ireland I See Dead People”
- B.R. Shenoy: “Photo Essay: A Stroll through La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina”
- CatHERine: “The Most Unusual Cultural Celebration I Ever Experienced was at a Cemetery”
- Paul Gardner: “Romania’s Merry Cemetery Celebrates Life and Not Death”
This Week’s Featured Writer
Anne Bonfert
Want to give a great big thank you and shout-out to my fellow editor Anne. I do believe she’s one of the hardest working people on Medium. Not only does she write prolifically, but she edits for Globetrotters, helps us out with our monthly challenges and still has time to jump out of airplanes and do a whole lot of traveling, camping, exploring, etc. What an inspiration she is!
I can’t even count how many people I’ve heard from who credit Anne Bonfert with getting them interested in writing travel stories here on Medium — and I’m one of them! She has an enviable 129k followers. Wow!
Besides her “Globetrotters Writer Spotlight” story, here’s a sampling of some of her best binge-worthy stories on Globetrotters:
- “You are Packing Our Entire Household”
- “When Solo Traveling Almost Got Me Killed”
- “The Best Place I’ve Been — Mountains”
- “Living 24/7 for Two Weeks With a Total Stranger”
- “Japan is Where I’d Take My Partner To”
Story Recaps
Check out our latest story recap by Adrienne Beaumont, back and better than ever!
September Monthly Challenge — Food!
Today marks the end of our monthly travel foodie challenge. It’s been so much fun reading all of your delicious stories!
Of course, you can still submit foodie-travel stories after this date, it just won’t be part of the challenge. You can also submit food stories to editor Jill’s cool new pub: Sharing Food — Medium.
Here are our latest stories submitted since my last update:
- Adrienne Beaumont: “Food, Glorious Food. Eat like a local”
- Michael DeFranceschi: “North Carolina — The Bar Which Will Bring Back Cheerful Childhood Memories”
- Janin Lyndovsky: “Organic Was All I Knew”
- Jillian Amatt — Artistic Voyages: “Bulgaria Played a Vital Role In Bringing Yogurt To The World”
- Maja Savic: “The Best Truffles I Ever Tasted”
- Marianne O: “I Love the Food Because it is Already a Part of Me”
- Anne Bonfert: “A Culinary Experience in South Tyrol”
New Writers
Our new writers added this last week. A big welcome to all!
Sarah Keane, Georgie Nink, Elena J, Joanna Henderson, Krasi Shapkarova, Nine, Dionne Roberts
- All of our writers have the opportunity to introduce themselves to everyone at Globetrotters through our Writer Spotlight Stories series.
Our latest Spotlight Stories:
- Divina Grey: “Globetrotters Writer Spotlight — Divina Grey”
- Bits and bots: “Globetrotters Writer Spotlight — Bits and bots”
Engagement, Support and Feedback
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Questions, feedback and suggestions are always welcome!
The editing team here at Globetrotters consists of Adrienne Beaumont, Anne Bonfert, Jillian Amatt — Artistic Voyages and myself, JoAnn Ryan.
Happy traveling and writing to you!
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