San Francisco was represented in a couple of different posts in the most recent edition of the Carnival of Cities blog carnival. One of those posts was my post on the city’s creative scene and the other was more of a general travel post about San Francisco. One of our neighbors to the south, San Diego, was also represented with a post about the Balboa Park museums there which I can say from experience are very cool indeed.

There were several other posts related to different spots throughout the United States this time around although those were the only ones from California. The others came from New York (both Queens and Manhattan), Baltimore, Austin and Pensacola.

There weren’t too many non-US posts this time around which is kind of rare and sad to see. The ones that are there are worth checking out though. They’re on Melbourne, Goa and India. It’ll be interesting to see what’s in the carnival next month, won’t it?

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I love sharing information about San Francisco with people who have never been here. That’s why I was excited to get asked to do a guest post for Travelogged, a cool blog that’s great for people interested in worldwide travel. The author of the blog has a witty voice and it was great to get a chance to chime in there with my own thoughts.

Of course, since I do have a blog called San Francisco is Sexy, it’s not too much of a surprise that my guest post focused on the sexiest things to do in this city. It’s hard to narrow down something like that since there are so many different sexy events and places in San Francisco.

What I did here was I tried to focus on the ten sexiest things about San Francisco that would appeal to someone who was just visiting here for a short time. By focusing on different types of trips (neighborhood explorations, for example) and broad activities (like the breadth of sexy classes there are here), I think I was able to offer a new visitor many different options for seeing the sexy side of the city without scaring anyone off with our sometimes-too-liberal attitude.

I believe that it’s really important to remember who your audience is when you’re doing any kind of travel writing. If you’re writing for “insiders” then you can skip a lot of the background stuff and you don’t have to water things down. However, if you’re writing for a wider audience then you need to provide insider tips in a way that a general audience can easily swallow. That’s particularly true when witing about a place as different from everywhere else as San Francisco is!

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We all know that I love San Francisco and that I think it’s the best place in the country to explore. That’s why I write so many travel articles about San Francisco like this one on the top ten San Francisco neighborhoods. But I also love to travel and I know that there are a lot of other great cities throughout the United States and around the world which is why I’m happy to see that the aforementioned San Francisco article was included in the Carnival of Cities alongside posts about all kinds of other neat places to travel.

There were three other U.S. cities included in this blog carnival. There was information on taking kids to Boston, visiting the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and changing housing trends in Tallahassee. There was also one more post from the Americas – a really cool post about cycling through Peru (which is almost as neat as exploring any city with a walking tour).

People interested in travel outside of the United States will be happy to know that there are also several travel posts related to European and Asian cities. Two come from Spain – one on Barcelona and one on the Alicante Festivals. There were also posts on Kuala Lumpur and Jaipur. Cool places with lots to learn about them so the blog carnival is definitely worth a read.

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