The Gomes Guide
A weekly travel newsletter + podcast by Shannon Gomes: Gen X, SF-based mom, lifelong traveler, and foodie who loves exploring like a local, not a tourist. Destination guides, food recs, travel tips, and inspiring conversations with fellow travelers.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 183 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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A Paris Guide to Eating and Drinking Well, From Someone Who Lives and Breathes French Food and Wine
The position she is in now—leading Paris food tours, organizing private food tours, and acting as a food concierge in Paris—was entirely by chance: she had seen a food tour go past a shop where she worked and then thought to herself, ‘Wait,...
AI Has Never Slept in a Hotel Bed
Pauline Frommer with her dad, Arthur Frommer
Arthur Frommer wrote and published the best-selling travel guidebook of all time in 1957. But it started as something much smaller.
He was a GI, drafted to fight in the Korean War, and the day...
Fall in Napa Valley, Through My Lens
Happy Friday, all!
Welcome back to my new bi-weekly series, Through My Lens, where I try to tell a place’s visual story through my eyes. Since Fall has officially arrived, wine country is on my mind. I grew up on the border of Sonoma and N...
A Jungle in Sumatra, a Lighthouse in Nicaragua, and What Traveling With Your Kids Teaches That School Can't
Rebecca Ryell and her family surfing in Central America
September 22, 2026: I’m re-releasing this podcast interview with Rebecca Ryell from March 2025. Below are new highlights from the interview, plus a new video clip from our conv...
The Gomes Guide Is Now on YouTube 🎥
Happy Friday, all!
Well, I’m apparently now a person with “channels,” plural - ha! I promise I haven’t lost the plot — Substack and Instagram are still home base for The Gomes Guide, and of course you can always find the podcast on Apple P...
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A weekly travel newsletter + podcast by Shannon Gomes: Gen X, SF-based mom, lifelong traveler, and foodie who loves exploring like a local, not a tourist. Destination guides, food recs, travel tips, and inspiring conversations with fellow travelers.
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