Lara Dunston

Author's details

Name: Lara Dunston
Date registered: June 14, 2011

Latest posts

  1. How Much Time Is Enough Time In A Place? — April 25, 2012
  2. To Travellers Who Have Dared To Live Their Dreams — April 6, 2012
  3. Welcome to the New Cool Travel Guide — April 6, 2012
  4. An update from the road… we’re on our grand tour and we’re in Montenegro! — May 5, 2010
  5. In print and online — March 5, 2010

Most commented posts

  1. Want to get cosy? — 66 comments
  2. Blogging: the protocols of posting comments — 30 comments
  3. The vanity portraits of today’s young ego-trippers. The focus? Forget about the journey or the destination. It’s them, themselves and their friends. — 24 comments
  4. What makes an airport cool? — 22 comments
  5. When you travel, do you do the things you want to do or the things you think you should do? — 22 comments

Author's posts listings

How Much Time Is Enough Time In A Place?

April 25, 2012

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Melbourne skyline from the Crown Metropol.

One of the most infuriating things for a travel writer is being told, “You haven’t stayed long enough” or “you can’t see everything/anything here in a month – you can’t even see it in a year!” Let me explain why… …

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Categories: Life as a Travel Writer, Travel Writing

To Travellers Who Have Dared To Live Their Dreams

April 6, 2012

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Bounty Brassware South Passage in the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race.

“Did you imagine you would really be travelling the world and earning your living from your travels?” one of my dearest and oldest friends Becky wrote in an email to me the other day. “It’s quite extraordinary when you look …

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Categories: Travel Trips and Journeys

Welcome to the New Cool Travel Guide

April 6, 2012

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The re-launch of Cool Travel Guide has been a long time coming. And while this is a soft launch of sorts, we still have a few tweaks to make, loads of archival posts to re-tag, and some text to finish. …

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Categories: Life as a Travel Writer, Travel Blogging, Travel Writing

An update from the road… we’re on our grand tour and we’re in Montenegro!

May 5, 2010

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This is the longest I’ve gone without posting on my poor neglected Cool Travel Guide. You want to know why? Drop by Grantourismo and you’ll see that we’ve been a tad busy on our yearlong grand tour of the world, …

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Categories: Travel Writing

In print and online

March 5, 2010

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Life has been keeping us busy as usual with our Grantourismo project now well and truly under way; you can keep up with our travels and what we’re doing here. We’ve had a few bits and pieces published in print …

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Categories: Travel Media, Travel Writing

Grantourismo & how we came to be going on a grand tour in 2010

February 6, 2010

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Terence and I have been dreaming about doing a grand tour of sorts for a few years – since way back when we wrote the Grantourismo blog for Charles and Marie. We started to seriously develop the idea of a …

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Categories: Travel Writing

Grantourismo – 12 months, 24 destinations, countless experiences

February 6, 2010

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Finishing writing projects (books, stories, reviews) and planning our exciting new project called Grantourismo, a contemporary grand tour of sorts, has kept us busy throughout December and January, and once again prevented me from updating this poor neglected little blog. …

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Categories: Travel & Tourism Industry, Travel Writing

Burj Khalifa and How Bridges, Buildings and other Big Things Unite Nations

January 7, 2010

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I’m a fan of Twitter but I was on deadline and only half-following tweets a few nights ago as messages streamed in from people in the UAE at the inauguration of the world’s tallest building Burj Dubai, since renamed Burj …

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Categories: Travel and Twitter, Travel Insights and Reflections

Busy in Beirut, Bangkok, Bendigo, and now blogging the globe

January 7, 2010

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The posts I will be popping up on my poor neglected travel blog over the next few days have been a long time coming. Some I drafted back in Beirut in November, others I scribbled almost a month ago while …

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Categories: Life as a Travel Writer

Where travel writers stay when they go on holidays

December 13, 2009

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Which hotels do travel writers check into when they go on holidays? That’s what Mark Hudson, a writer himself for The Sunday Times, among other publications, was keen to know, so he asked 50 of them (including myself) and published …

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Categories: Life as a Travel Writer

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