Welcome to the March 12, 2007 edition of the Carnival of Cities;  if you enjoy this post we’d love to see you at our Carnivals #1,  #2,  and  #3. 

It will be a quick tour this week since I’m still at the “digital creatives” party conference known as South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, Texas, but we can still manage to cross a few time zones.

** Cities in the Americas **

San Francisco, California, USA   Full-time Dad Jeremy Adam Smith writes about how the Daddy Dialectic contemplates The City vs. Kids at his wide-ranging blog Daddy Dialectic.  What do you do when there are dicey characters hanging around the city playgrounds that are available for your young children? Does it make parents chuck everything and move to suburbia?

Boston, Massachusetts, USA   Hell’s Handmaiden walks around Beantown in Boston Tears, thinking about the visionaries of the American Revolution and how they might react if they were alive today to see what has happened to their creation. 

Trinity, Texas, USA   CyberCelt contemplates the occasionally quite unglamorous life of the RV traveler, especially one who is sitting in Trinity, Texas waiting on a car part, but she finds that you can still meet great people in the middle of travel adversity.  She posts at the  Texas RV Travel Blog.

San Diego, California, USA   Carole Lane uses a great video clip to show how San Diego celebrates reading.  Writing at her blog The San Diego Beat, she notes that the nearby town of La Jolla was home to Dr. Seuss (author Theodor Geisel) for many years, so San Diego celebrates his birth along with [the reading support organization] Read Across America. Carole says, “Come join the celebration and have a little Bulldog Boogie with the Marines!”

**  Cities in Asia/Australia/New Zealand **

Timaru, New Zealand   Liz Lewis finds a hidden gem on the South Island, the The Aigantighe Art Museum.  Writing at Travel New Zealand, the native Kiwi says, “Even in small town New Zealand, you can find great art galleries and musuems.”

**  Cities in Europe **

Adare, Ireland   Seafarer blogs at Family Travel, and she packs a lot into a four-day short family trip to Western Ireland, including Adare and Bunratty Castle, near Shannon. 

That concludes this week’s edition. Submit your city-related blog post to our next edition of the Carnival of Cities using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. The next carnival inputs are due at 2 pm Eastern on Sunday, 18 March and we’ll publish on Monday, 19 March.

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