Vagabondo's Den

Welcome to Vagabondo's Den,
This page is meant as a meeting place between you and us.
We want to make this site not just visited but also written by travellers for travellers. So, if you have any proposal don't hesitate to write to Den. We hope this will be a good opportunity for both you and us... see you in Vagabondo's Den!

May 20^th 2002

The Vagabonds Finder is on line (section "People") This new section, after an idea of Matteo's, took more than three months work, that was chiefly done by poor Martino, who had to deal with the frightful PHP language (the true is he enjoyed it).
I think Vagabonds Finder will become one of the most important sections, as it makes visitors dialogue directly with each other to exchange info and experiences.
I hope that many will soon be the visitors that register (in fact it is the condition to have it working at the best).

October 9^th 2001

New update to the Vagabondo's Links Library!
There you will find all new links added from May up to September.
Deeply updated pages about trains and plains.

September 20^th 2001

What are we doing? Here it is:

• We are preparing the new Vagabondo's "Community":
  IT WILL BE a section meant to let our visitors get directly in touch with one another, consenting to people sharing the same interests and way of life to meet.
  IT WILL NOT BE one of these complicated and burdensome communities whose real final purpose is only to endow with some contents empty and tiresome portals.
• We eliminated the section about WEBRING: in our opinion this instrument lost great part of its meaning and so we felt it was useless to keep the section.
• We are now just completing the updating of the WEB section, wich will be on line at the end of september.
• We are preparing filters that will consen us to open again the service "add a URL" .

August 23^rd 2001

We have been obliged to interrupt the possibility for our visitors to point out interesting new URLS: our sistem was spammed by two sites that flooded us with nearly 1200 signallings!
We are now preparing "filters" to avoid this and we intend to re-open the service and to update the section for the end of September.

April 20^th 2001

Here is the new updating of Vagabondo'sLink library wit many new URLS, chiefly about Italy and Cuba.
Anoter important new thing is that we are now using ROAR!, Vagabondo's spider: it controls all the links that are already present, searching for the no more working ones before the updating of the library, so that we can correct or, in case, eliminate them. This time we eliminated 58 no more working links.

March 21^st 2001

Together with Spring's arrival also the second issue of Fiamma's café came out.
It's full of suggestions for vagabonds and wanderers, images travelogues and even tales. Also many practical hints.

2000

December 11^th

At least the pages are available about Latin America in our WEB section. The work was long, as we went as far as selecting 150 useful sites for independent travellers, chosen among an ocean (without exaggerating) of advertising of hotels, villages, resorts, tour operator, etc.
We are still about visiting some more sites, and we'll probably add about twenty before Christmas!

October 7^th

New updating of the section WEB, with more than 50 new sites!
Many new URL are pointed out to us every day and to select them is long. We include about 30% of them, the one we reject are usually advertisement of hotels or similar.
Moreover there are some really funny ones, see the following:

Description of the site: nternet Ukraine Nikolaev of news the newspaper the price the telephone the right the abstract the Nikolaev range a time-table(schedule) of trains advertising agency a history bank is photo the artists of acquaintance of aircash department internet Ukraine marriage jokes design for the information manufacturing painters a collection looking up (!!!??)

To end with biking and trekking associations are often pointed out. I want to recall that we may review them only if in their site they provide useful information open to everybody, say itineraries and reports. We cannot include sites which merely describe the activities of the association, also if this is travel - related.

September 27^th

The new section Fiamma's Café, already at its third issue in Italian, comes out now in its English version. Curiosities, hints and tips for wanderers about countries all over the world, written by travellers for travellers.

September 15^th

We have completely renovated the section ROUTES! Have a look and you'll find more advice, new directions and, we hope, all should be still easier to consult.

July 25^th

New update to the Vagabondo's webrings section!

June 14^th

We are completely renovating the "WEB" section of Vagabondo.
Take a look to the pages about European Countries (UK for instance) to understand how it's going to look like, but in July news will be greater:

• Pages will be still hand-made and we will still check personally every link submitted to us, but then links will be inserted automatically by ROAR!
• ROAR! Will also check periodically the consistency of each link, removing dead sites.
• We will save lot of time and be able to update the link-library more often.
• Many clickable maps will make easier to surf.

What's ROAR!?
ROAR! is a WML and SQL application created by Martino; "ROAR!" is the roar of Vagabondo bear.

April 17^th

New update to the Vagabondo's Links Library!
There you will find all new links added from February up to March 20^th: we have selected 25 new sites from the 52 that were submitted to us.

February 28^th

With a certain delay on our programs (due to several problems) we have been able to update Vagabondo'sLinks section!
We received a lot of new links submissions and checked it all throughly, you can find our link selection up to February 2.

February 11^th

Our Forum and other site's functionality have been down for some days due to a problematic server switch, our site is noe running on a Unix server. Everything should be running better than before now!!

January 4^th

We are a bit in late with news and new links that have been submitted by a lot of you (thanks!), but we are working on our web to make simpler and easier to navigate through.

1999

December 1^st

Our Homepage together with ourWEBsection has been completely renewed using a nicer graphic and making it easier to navigate, let us know wht yuo think!

November 9^th

New update to the link library: we have selected 17 new sites.
Netscape compatibility with theWEBsection improved.

November 2^nd

We have created a new Webring!!
Europe for Independent Travellers

October 15^th

Finally it seems that our scripts work again!

October 9^th

Vagabondo is moving from a Windows NT server to a Unix one; that's why at the moment many pages don't work (The Forum and all the forms). We are working to arrange all the new settings as soon as possible.

October 3^rd

We have just opened a new Vagabondo's section dedicated toWebrings!!!
We are actually persuaded that webrings are becoming a very good means to increase visibility of alternative sites, non commercial ones and of personal pages.

Sept. 22^nd

We have changed a bit the structure of theWEBsection to make faster and clearer the consultation.

Sept. 22^nd

We got in a "link exchange" program: we show some banners on Vagabondo and our banner is shown on other travel sites. We hope this will increase the number of Vagabondo's friends. Our banner is here below:

Sept 17^th

We have finally arranged the new update of the Link Library. Many new sites are aboutBritish Colombia, we want to thank who submitted them: they are beautiful and we've listed all of them!

Aug 29^th

Back from our holidays we see that Vagabondo is close to get 2000 visits: a great result for a two months old site!!!
Thanks to all our friends!
We are working to some nice news that will be ready in a while...

July 29^th

Vagabondo has now been on line for one month and have had more than 750 visitors.: we wish to say thank you to everybody that helped us to get our site to be known by reciprocallinksor pointing us out to friendsThank you!

Thomas wrote:
"A little icon (or even a boldfaced letter) indicating whether a tour is hiking, bicycling, city tours, water sports, car, or other categories might help skimming the page if people are planning a particular type of tour and would like to know who did the same."

Matteo answers:
I think it's a good idea. We'll try to manage it this autumn, when we update the Link library with a new Perl engine to generate (offline) our pages: this will save a lot of work and will consent to apply solutions like the one Thomas proposes.

July 21^st

During these few weeks many sites have been added to the Link library: you'll be able to find them in their specific categories or in the new page NEWS!! that is dedicated to them.

July 8^th

If you want to link Vagabondo from your site you can now use one of our "vagabutton" or "vagabanner", just chooseherethe one you prefer!

July 7^th

We received a lot of emails in the first two weeks after Vagabondo's opening, definitely more than were expecting! we're very pleased: thanks to you all folks!

We also received a lot of links of other sites that could be interesting for Vagabondo. We will check all of them as soon as possible (and definitely before the end of the month).

June 29^th

Opening of Vagabondo's English version!!! Ok, some translations are not that good and there are probably more than a few slips around; the important thing is that everything is comprehensible, we will check it all again soon...

June 21^st

Opening of Vagabondo's Italian version!!! (the English one is still under translation).

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