Welcome to round two of our new series of weekly travelinks, a collection of travel miscellany that we find interesting, amusing or just want to share - new blog posts, images, hotels, festivals, people and news stories. And if you have anything you want to add, find out how to swing a travelink our way after these tasty offerings.
Weekly Travelinks
• Some say that Twitter is a spurious vacuum for global fluff. Perhaps. But a new site created by the makers of HolidayPad and GoGlamping shows you just how useful the thing can be. Introducing... HolidayCrunch; a real-time collector of travel deals as they appear. Top stuff.
• On the subject of Twitter yielding more than just infinite gumph ... this just in: blog hero Matt Parsons has compiled a thorough list of travel companies who Tweet. Bravo him.
• But Twitter won't magically lasso in every deal in the world. Here's one we just, like, found. The very lovely Crillon le Brave in Provence is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving away 20 rooms for €20 on the 20th of each month. Which will come with free tickets to a local 20:20 cricket game and a bottle of mango flavour MD 20/20. Ok, we made the last bit up.
• We're not sure when it happened, which may well have been a while back, but the London Review of Breakfasts has gone global, and now offers succulent chunks of sensational sausage Shakespeare from around the world. Scroll down on this page to see their overseas dispatches.
• A Liverpudlian chap by the name of Graham Hughes is attempting to visit every country in the world this year, without flying or driving. Do pop over to his site and watch his progress, and highly entertaining videos.
• The excellent city guide people at unlike.net have this week released the somewhat inevitable iPhone applications. If you ain't got no iPhone, the site is well worth a browse anyway, and has plenty of good mobile-friendly city pages.
• Another nice site we've recently come across: Joobli is a virtual timeline of interesting events happening in European cities. Pick your dates, and see what Europe has to offer.
• The Travel Tart is an interesting chappie, who has recently compiled something of a 'best-of' his offbeat travel experiences, including hurtling down the world's most dangerous road in Bolivia, and procuring "natural viagra" in Turkey.
• The Lonely Planet Blog awards were announced this week. Take the afternoon off, and hurry off down this hugely tempting rabbit hole. A hearty congrats to all nominees and winners.
• And finally, this week's Earth Hour was a truly global turn-off. Treehugger have complied a flurry of videos of some of the world's most iconic sights flicking the switch.
How to submit a travelink
• Email benji.lanyado@theguardian.com or georgia.brown@theguardian.com with the word "Travelink" in the subject field.
• Tweet any links to @guardiantravel, @benjilanyado, or add #travelink to your tweet.
• Post a comment below and we'll put our faves in next week's round-up.
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