Friday Link Love: California Wine Country on the Cheap, the Best Rooftop Bars and More

Travel Tips — By Nicole Lerner on August 21, 2009 at 4:44 pm

As we wrap up our travel tech week on the NileGuide blog, we’ve rounded up some interesting travel links from around the web:

If you’ve ever been to Napa, you know that wining and dining can be expensive. But, there are plenty of ways to visit California Wine Country (whether it’s Napa, Sonoma, Carmel Valley or elsewhere) without breaking the bank. Check out BootsnAll’s story, California Wine Country: Planning a Cheap Trip Yourself for some great tips.

Vagabondish let us in on these cool city neighborhood posters from Ork Posters. Currently covering North American cities from Boston to San Francisco, we’re crossing our fingers that they expand coverage to cities the world over.

An oldie but goodie, this Matador Nights story profiles the World’s 10 Best Rooftop Bars from Dublin to Melbourne to New York.

And climbing the Digg ranks this week, Environmental Graffiti brings us the Railway Track Market of Samut Songkhram, a market held on the operational railway tracks outside of Bangkok where vendors and shoppers dodge the train while doing business.

[Photo: Juanlondres/Creative Commons]