Archive for October, 2009
Your worst hotel experience?
Author: A recent hotel stay reminded us of just how bad they can occasionally be. We checked into a respectable five star city hotel in the early evening, did some work, then went out to dinner and checked…
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Travel insights from travel experts
I am probably suffering from chronic information overload – how about you? – but increasingly I’m finding myself wanting to read more informed opinions from people with experience and expertise in a…
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Travel experts versus ‘real’ travellers
Travel ‘experts’, whether they are travel writers, guidebook authors, travel bloggers, tour guides, travel agents, hoteliers etc, are also ‘real’ travellers in my mind. Yet publishers and travel…
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Behind-the-scenes in a Michelin-starred chef’s kitchen and the kindness of chefs
Being able to spend a night in the restaurant kitchen of a Michelin-starred chef – in this case that of Pierre Gagnaire at Reflets, Dubai – is one of the delights of our job. It wasn’t our first time…
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In print and online
It’s been a busy period for Terry and I, as you’ve gathered from the dearth of blog posts these last months. And we’ve got a lot of work being published to prove it, from a small ‘Up Next’ piece on…
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Envying a donkey his pace – the frenetic tempo of travel writing, part 2
So how, as travel writers, do we get ourselves into the situation I described in the last post? And is it possible to be a travel writer and avoid this frenzied pace of life? To answer the second…
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Envying a donkey his pace – the frenetic tempo of travel writing, part 1
Our recent trip around the Middle East (see this post) wasn’t meant to be that kind of trip. There was no guidebook to write. No insane photography commission for Terry to undertake. Just lots of…
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