In 8 years of living in  London, I only witnessed one fight in a pub, but I had a Japanese friend also living there who never ventured into a bar on the anniversary of the Fall of Singapore in World War II, as drunken British men kept wanting to punch him out for causing the British Empire to be lost. Well, in ... Read More »

Our own  Pauline Frommer  is regularly popping up on the Sundance in these short promo pieces for "The Tastemaker Series" of festival and foreign flicks on Sunday nights.  ... Read More »

Everyone knows that driving drunk can kill you and others. And driving while performing other tasks can be hazardous, too. I've seen men using electric shavers while driving, women checking lipstick application, people eating and drinking. All are bad, yet we continue to invite trouble because, usually, we're in a big ... Read More »

Last night we held our first ever (first annual?) Frommer's Travel Trivia Night, and I'd say it was a bonafide success. There was wine, there was cheese, it was as free as the snow in Maryland, everyone seemed to mingle and enjoy themselves, and I had a good time co-hosting with the fabulous Kathleen Warnock. Thanks to the ... Read More »

Attention, Frommer's readers in the New York Area: We have questions for you. So many questions. We're holding our very first Frommer's Travel Trivia Night this Thursday, February 4th, from 7 to 9pm at Idlewild travel bookstore (12 W 19th St., between 5th and 6th aves, New York; tel. 212/414-8888; www.idlewildbooks.com ). ... Read More »

I have written here before about travel insurance, and in our Frommers online newsletter, as has my colleague Sascha Segan in separate definitive articles about the subject. But I think it a good idea to write about it once again in this season of bad weather, which often results in travelers getting stranded in ... Read More »

If you become "The World's Unluckiest Traveler," you will win a prize of a $10,000 dream vacation and a camcorder. Travel Guard, that innovative provider of travel insurance and assistance to world travelers, is offering the prize throughout 2010. They want to hear about a bad trip you may have experienced, whether it be ... Read More »

In case you were wondering, terrorism has engendered counter terrorism, and that can mean business opportunities. Just two days before the Christmas Day attempted downing of that Northwest flight from Amsterdam near Detroit by the so-called "underwear bomber," the Counter Terrorist magazine, now in its fifth year, put out a ... Read More »

I never used to advise my credit card companies ahead of time when I planned to travel abroad, despite their announcements that doing so is a good idea. I had traveled for years with various credit cards and never had problems, but now I am a convert. On my last trip to Europe, I did call ahead and when I finished reciting ... Read More »

The results of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that shook Haiti on Tuesday are devastating. The Haitian President René Preval estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 people have died, though there has been no official death toll yet, and the Red Cross estimates that about 3 million people were affected by the ... Read More »