Doriana

I have relied upon this forum for years for great first-hand travel information. Particularly in the Europe forum, you will get an answer to your question within minutes of posting it (seconds if it's about Italy!), which I find remarkable. In addition to the advantage of having such an active and well-informed community, I find fodors' design very useful (in contrast, for example, tripadvisor has useful information, but the layout gives me a headache). I hope you don't mind my going off-topic, but I was wondering if any of you have favorite websites on other topics that you consult regularly -- for example, I'm home recovering from shoulder surgery and have found a few forums where people share their experiences, but I don't know of a particularly good one-stop health/medical forum. Other topics include cooking, theater, literature, shopping, style, etiquette . . . . For starters, my favorite site for choosing movies is metacritic.com. It allows you to get a brief overview of a host of opinions, both professional and not, without reading a whole review unless you choose to (and I hate reading plot-revealing reviews). Thanks for letting me pick your brain while I convalesce.

suze

Really, there are websites for things other than travel????? (just kidding & i hope you feel better soon)

Underhill

For cooking, sometimes combined with travel, try eGullet.com.

I sympathize about the shoulder surgery. I broke my right humerus in January and know how long it takes to regain range of motion.

fromMA

www.newsvoyager.com. It has newspaper web sites from all over the world and you can be an armchair traveller while seeing other region's take on the news

rex

For all kinds of factual everything about film, www.imdb.com

Best wishes,

Rex

rex

topping...

artlover

Aw, Suzy, you beat me to the punch!

Doriana,
Hope you're better soon.

For medical, I've sometimes used remedyfind.com.

I'm a dog lover (too) and can give you lots of German shepherd websites if you're interested.

I find that if I use google and just enter the area, I get lots of related websites.

machin

I'm surprised to see a few posters here who complain when someone starts a non-travel thread.

dsm22

I like the forums on BBC's website.

suze

seriously, mine are the BB's at:
fodors
lonelyplanet
ricksteves

and Budget Travel is now online as of June 1st at www.BudgetTravelOnline.com whoo hoo!

foodiern

For foodies, restaurant reviews, etc, chowhound.com

cigalechanta

Chocolateandzuccini.com

hopingtotravel

Well, when I'm not here, my computer time is over on the Yahoo board for various individual stocks. When things get boring, they'll talk about all kinds of things. Once in awhile I'll visit a website for gardeners.

llamalady

L'Atelier Vert - Everything French Gardening.....deliciously French.

fehgeddaboudit

eater.net for aerial views of the East coast.

Ardfert

www.rte.ie is an Irish site where you can listen to 4 radio stations,including one classical one (Lyric).

fuzzylogic

The Beeb for all kinds of stuff but especially the cricket, and another vote for imdb.com.

guardian.co.uk
ballet.co.uk
sydney.citysearch.com.au

It's a wonderful world.

kprins

televisionwithoutpity.com

Best recaps of television shows ever!