One of our travel guides partners, Not For Tourists, has several unique offerings for travelers on their website this week. Check out the following highlights from their Chicago correspondents this week...  

Beautiful Pizza By: Jill Jaracz

Great Lake

One of our travel guides partners is Newcomer's Handbooks - and they are incredible guides to moving to and living in a variety of new cities. What a wonderful concept - and as we've found from author interviews  (USA, Washington, DC) and perusing them, incredibly useful guides.

If you could choose any place to change the world, where would it be?

One of the most important terms in international education and intercultural learning is a new term - Worldschooling. Coined by Eli Gerzon, worldschooling is "when the whole world is your school, instead school being your whole world."

In my numerous visits to the Middle East, I frequently pay someone to hold a knife to my throat.  Actually it’s a razor, but either way I’m aware that one quick twist of the wrist could bring a quick end to my life.  Time and again, however, all that happens is that my stubbly whiskers get removed.  Sometimes pain is involved, but that’s only when the razor is set aside and the man fills his palms with cologne, slapping it on my cheeks and neck and rubbing it in -- burn, baby, burn!  I’m speaking, of course, of the barbershop.

Lonely Planet’s “Flightless: Incredible Journeys Without Leaving the Ground” is a thought-provoking guide for anyone seeking an alternative to the indignities, monotony or environmental impact of flying and who at the same time wishes to avoid the twelve-countries-in-seventeen-days approach to getting away.