City blogs

Brought to you by the department of closing some tabs (and about time too).

The Guardian 'Readers Recommend' in the Travel section, several weeks ago, asked readers to recommend blogs about cities. I haven't explored them all, and not all of them appeal, but Invisible Paris has some lovely posts: try this one, about the Catherinettes.

Also recommended, Pattern London: the emphasis is on the visual (pretty scarves!). Coincidentally, while I was failing to get round to this post, GirlBear sent me a cutting about the London Shop Fronts blog. This struck a chord with me because I've long nursed the idea of a similar project, as we drive around London I yearn to photograph the great variety of fascia boards, the different styles and type faces, some bright, some cracked and faded, some clever and some completely stupid. But I'm never going to do it (for one thing, you'd have to spend more time just wandering around London than I do, for another I lack the single-mindedness to run a themed blog, though I admire those who do); I wonder if anyone else will.

The Guardian also listed a blog from Budapest, a city I'd like to know better, but it turned out just not to be my style (entries were longer than I'd want to read regularly); and then I was drifting through lj_photophile and came across missravenz fabulous photographs of the Fisherman's Bastion - so it looks as if I've found a Budapest blogger I am going to enjoy reading. LJ wins again!

While I'm on the subject of the Travel section, this week's carried a fun article about traditional Mexican cuisine (and where to eat it). UNESCO has now added Mexican cuisine to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. I hadn't even known that UNESCO had a list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, but it has, and there's some wonderful stuff on it. Another link to follow when I have time...

...because truly, the internet is full of Stuff (but that's another post).