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 …
In print and online
There’s a reason I haven’t been blogging much these last few months – or rather, lots of reasons. Terence and I have been busy travelling, mainly through the Middle East – to Syria, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Lebanon – on …
The affection that comes with familiarity versus the energy of an unfamiliar destination
Only two of the nine countries we visited in the last six months were new to us, places we hadn’t been before and were experiencing for the first time. Obviously, as travel writers, it’s inevitable that we end up returning to …
Are you a once-in-a-lifetime traveller or a creature of habit?
Are you a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ traveller? That is, every country you visit you consider it to be a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience and treat it as such? Do you go to a place thinking you may never get back there again so everything you …
An update from the road
I’ve been silent for some time, I know. We’ve been on the road again in the Middle East on commissions for a few in-flight and travel magazines, and our pace has been hectic to say the least – from hiking …
Your worst hotel experience?
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 out a bar …
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 subject, no matter what the area, but especially …
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 sites are frequently pitting the two against each other. Sure, the travel …
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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Cool Travel Guide’s Posting Policy
December 13, 2009
by Lara Dunston
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 …
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