Category Archive: Travel Blogging

Welcome to the New Cool Travel Guide

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. But something has motivated me to re-launch today, and I’ll tell …

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Cool Travel Guide’s Posting Policy

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While the vast majority of comments I get on Cool Travel Guide are wonderful and warmly welcomed, I’ve received a few comments over the last year that have caused me to reflect upon what Cool Travel Guide is all about and what I’m prepared to post and what I’m not and to …

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What is Cool Travel Guide?

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One of the reasons I began Cool Travel Guide was to write about the things I couldn’t write about in the highly prescriptive guidebooks I made my living writing. My first post ‘Aleppo: no practicalities’ explained my motivation and my desire to have a space where I could write whatever I …

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