I had a Eurail pass for the Balkan Peninsula, so I figured it would be easy to get around. Wrong.

Don’t step on any golden eggs.

In this weekend’s travel pages: traveling in Japan, last-chance winter fun, and urban travel in a new crop of destinations.

There’s a new travel blog in town: Globorati, a daily digest for the luxury-travel minded.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/21/07

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/7/07

The NY Times has their end-of-year picks, while the LA Times and Washington Post finally get their snow-season specials on the lift.

In the increasingly high-stakes business of luxury hotels, a four-star concierge – someone willing and able to meet almost any guest demand, is indispensable.

There seems to have been a choice of two topics in the travel stories published this weekend: creepy, Halloween-themed tales, or serious newspapers (the WaPo, the NYT) trying a fresh take on the been-there, done-that subject of the Caribbean.