Oh, boy. There is nothing like sitting down at the beloved laptop on a Saturday morning (sorry, I’m a sicko and I wrote that with a straight face) with my first cup of coffee, popping open the ol’ email and finding the nicest note from Stuart at the UK Web site The Family Adventure Project.
He and his wife Kirstie found this blog today in the UK newspaper the Guardian, because — taa-daa — the paper listed Family Travel as a “Best of the Net!” In a list of proposed alternatives to the just-announced Travvies, there is FT in all its glory as a “Best Practical Blog.”
Wow! What an extraordinary honor….or for my other English readers, an “honour.” 
I often link to the Guardian because they have a great online travel site, plus it’s always good to troll non-US publications for a new slant on travel and a different point of view (my RSS feeds also include the Telegraph, the Independent, the Times, Canada’s Globe and Mail and the Sydney Morning Herald.)
Thanks so much to Stuart for letting me know about this, and also for the chance to check out his site. He put a Family Travel link on his page ”Inspirational Stories Online,” which is simply chock-full of the most amazing stories of families on bikes, families on boats and families in Africa. It’s a thrill to be listed with such company.
In my thrumming practicality, I must now go to the grocery store because we are low on cat litter and cereal. What a comedown, but the glow remains.
Thanks so much.
Update 4 March: I should have put this in the post in the first place but wasn’t thinking straight — here are the other travel blogs recommended by the Guardian:
Best Travel Blog – TravelPod
Best Destination Blog – Metroblogging Berlin
Best Single Author Blog – Tony Wheeler’s Blog
Best Group Written Blog – Wandalust
Best Photography on a Blog – TokyoShoes
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Sheila, that’s great. Talk about recognition. Hope you bought some champagne along with the cereal and cat litter.
Cheers, Liz
Yeah, you know what’s pathetic, while I’m putting gas into the car near the store, I discovered that I had a flat tire.
I was still in such a good mood that it didn’t matter, and I was able to get enough air in the tire to get the car home and change the tire in our driveway (it was a nail.)
Talk about an up-and-down day!
A retired military wife is seeking interesting places to see from utah to Missouri. although we traveled a great deal we always had a (beat the clock) attitude and never saw anything between point A to point Z.
Now I amtrying to (STOP… and smell the roses.) vacation . Can some Help with suggestions?
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