Starting today, a version of Condé Nast Traveler’s Web outlet, Concierge.com, is available to cell phone-toting travelers as Concierge Mobile.

In a series of Lonely Planet blog posts that promises to be fascinating, LP writer Frances Linzee Gordon is publishing her experiences traveling as a single woman traveling in Saudi Arabia for an upcoming guide on the Arabian peninsula.

Love them for freeing independent travelers with their wealth of information, or hate them for making everywhere accessible to the backpacking masses, the Lonely Planet guides have undeniably rempapped the face of travel.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

A good guidebook can go a long way towards making or breaking a trip, but the best travel experiences still come with the thrill of discovery attached: secret spots known only to locals, with directions sketched out in hand-drawn maps.

he NY Times catches on to the art scene, cafés, clubs and neo-Weimar energy of Berlin’s former East: Kreuzberg, Mitte and Friedrichshain.

The experts in everything at Lifehacker have an interesting comment thread going right now, with readers’ tips for getting info while exploring a new city, especially places where you didn’t expect to end up, or have extra time on a business junket.

Wallpaper, the glossy magazine-cum-bible of modernist chic that helped turn “design” and “lifestyle” into the ubiquitous buzzwords they are today, has just released a series of travel guides.

Here, to fill the gap between P.J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Hell and Jackass, comes the Vice Guide to Travel.

Ever heard of the Republic of Molossia, the Conch Republic, or the sovereign nation of Lovely? These and other experiments in declaring your own state are covered in a new Lonely Planet guide, Micronations.