KLM invited me to a Japanese cooking class with a few other bloggers to tell us about their new route to Japan

Travel-plan-idea is a great blog chock full of travel ideas and tips.

Here's what the most read travel bloggers are thinking about doing this year.

Welcome to the first Carnival of Cities for 2010. This edition sports a wide range of topics from a lot of cool bloggers, many which are taking part for the first time and it's a real bumper volume today.

Liz over at Everything Everywhere posted the September blog carnival a couple of days ago, and my piece on the copper mine in Falun, Sweden, is included. Many thanks to Liz!

Liz over at Travelogged included my Parks in Berlin post in the latest Anywhere, Everywhere Travel Blog Carnival.

The winner in the travel blogs category is the Viator Travel Blog, getting the prize for Travel & Leisure category best blog.

Voting in the Chapeau Blog Awards! began yesterday and eyeflare.com needs your voting love to come out ahead of day-tour juggernaut Viator's diehard fans

With the air travel industry in turmoil and running scared from the global recession, the airlines have launched massive air fare sales across the board. Anyone that's been reading the travel blogs lately have certainly seen incredible offers

Eyeflare.com made it into the finals for best travel blog in the Chapeau Blog Awards this year. We're up against the very good Viator blog, which should make for a good sprint to the finish.

After finding Wordle.net and making my own Wordle, I thought to ask other travel bloggers to send in theirs to help show what a range of topics there are in the travel blogging community. Here are the results from 8 fantastic travel bloggers

Usually late to the party, I've finally succumbed and joined Twitter, the micro-blogging service

Karen over at Europe A La Carte just published the Europe Travel Carnival 2 February 2009

I've got an inclusion in Nomadic Matt's blog carnival a few days ago.

I was recently invited to take part in Anthony McCune's blog carnival to celebrate his 3 solid years of blogging. It's a great celebratory blog carnival with a large number of eclectic articles included.

I don't usually pull out others' posts here on eyeflare.com, but these travel thoughts from Seth Godin's blog are worth spreading even further

We're hosting next week's Carnival of Cities here on eyeflare.com on Wednesday 16 April 2008.

More great articles from around the travel sphere. Best of all is that we now get to have two carry-ons again traveling to and from England! This issue is jam-packed with lots of articles you really want to read, such as Ubertramp's 3-part series on not being overcharged while abroad.

The best travel articles from the last few weeks. Enjoy these reads from other blogs and sites.

Great new travel sites are popping up all over the place. These are my favorite travel blog picks at the moment.

Eyeflare.com joined the Trusted Travel Blogs Network in the beginning of May. And I've added more about food.

Can the way we think about the world and those we share it with really change how things are? I'm not in the habit of re-posting messages or blog posts, but this one caught my eye.

Really interesting, useful and amusing pages and blogs I've come across recently. Save some money, see free comedy or learn more about Afghanistan.

Being late, as usual, I just now found the Girl with a one-track mind blog. This is the blog where the author writes in detail about her life as a sexually active young woman in London and was outed by the Sunday Times recently.