This week, I will show you another alternative travel site: OnTheInside. As you may expect, the site offers insider know-how about places. With one limitation: it’s all about The Big Apple, New York City.

The site is full of hints and recommendations where to go and what to do & see. Pretty designed, great written and authentic. I like it and will use it for my next NY-trip.

Link: OnTheInside

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Wow, some not so nice waves in Japan…

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So let’s say you head to Hong Kong and don’t know anything yet about Cantonese Culture. Or you come to Vienna. Or you go to Costa Rica. There is a quick help on the web: GeoBeats.

GeoBeats is a video platform with short clips and movies about a different topics and countries. From the start page, you can select which country you’re interested in, and very often GeoBeats has different topics available.

The quality is quite good and I like the clips. It’s fun to watch. So if you’re traveller, this may interest you. Check out the site, it’s worth!

Other travell tools are TripHub for travel organization as well as Travellerspoint.

Link: GeoBeats

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Strong and popular surf acts collected in one video:

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You fullfilled your dream and live now somewhere abroad. You have a nice house and a great job. But you miss something. Yeap, your people back home. Here comes Yourville - a digital place where you can meet with your folks at home and keep in touch in multiple ways:

• Blogs
• Forum
• Galleries
• …

But Yourville is not only about keeping touch with your home base, it is also about discovering other Expats in your current region.

Yourville ist for free and useful to some of you. Try it out and tell us.

Link: yourville

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Nice video clip about sailing & surfing!

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A funny way to document your travel or sport challenge - with GPS. So what is Trip Tracker good for? If you want to inform your friends about your travel route, you can connect it automatically to a map with a GPS device. You can add photos and additional information to destination and store memories on your website.

Link: Trip Tracker

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The 6th part of the series

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You need information about places? I mean special places? Then have a look at Troovy, a new service which connects stories from all over the globe. You can search via Google map or categories, and yes, you can add your own story in there too.

Troovy is free and fun to read. Add some comments, or put your own slideshow on the board!

Link: Troovy

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