Eyeflare.com wishes everyone a Happy New Year!

I've upscaled the photo size on the site, and new photos will be bigger to make them look better.

January roundup of travel articles and sites I'm hooked on at the moment. Please do send me tips for other reading materials in the comments below or via email at jack@eyeflare.com.

To all readers of eyeflare.com, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Travel articles and news from around the web. Issue 24 of the eyeflare.com Great reads roundup.

This is the 500th post on eyeflare.com. Since 2001, when I published the first post on this site, I've now put up 499 posts before now.

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

Welcome to the 22 April issue of the Carnival of Cities, on visit to eyeflare.com from its spiritual home at Family Travel Guide

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

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.

Here's a bit of fun. Wordle.net is a service that will take your web page or RSS feed and make a word cloud out of it

Welcome to the final installment of the eyeflare.com events calendar for 2009. We�re listing one special event each month for 2009 that you want to plan some of your travels around. This part covers October, November, and December of 2009 and we�ve included some toe wrestling in England, the messy �La Tomatina� in Spain, and the raucous German Oktoberfest

Welcome to the 3rd installment of the eyeflare.com events calendar for 2009. We’re listing one special event each month for 2009 that you want to plan some of your travels around. This part covers July, August, and September of 2009 and we’ve included some toe wrestling in England, the messy ’La Tomatina’ in Spain, and the raucous German Oktoberfest

The second of our calendar of events for 2009 that you may wish to plan some trips around. We have a fantastic Thai festival, cheese rolling (?) in England, and a buggy festival in Louisiana

For 2009, we've found a calendar of unusual or fascinating events for each month to plan your travels around, ranging from Carnival in Rio de Janiero to a Rock, Paper, Scissors competition in Canada. We've split the events into 4 posts, and here's the first one covering January to March 2009

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

Welcome to this edition of the Carnival of Cities, it's the first for eyeflare.com.

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

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

RSS is the quickest and most convenient way to get all the eyeflare.com articles as they are published. Details on how to subscribe and an article round-up below.

The writers at eyeflare.com are far from the only independent-minded travelers around. Here are a few travel sites that I read on a regular basis.

The site's not received frequent updates since before Christmas. This is because I got engaged and began planning to get married this coming Sunday and eyeflare.com slid drastically down the priority list.