Lara DunstonThe more I travel the more I make connections. Between people, places, cultures, countries, and all kinds of kooky things. The more connections I make, the more everything and everyone seems the same. In a heartening kind of way. And the more this crazy planet and my even crazier life seem to be like one … Read more about Making connections: the lock of love
Aside from our new Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook hitting the shelves, we had a couple of articles appear on the web recently. Check out our “Off the beach in Crete” piece on the NineMSN Travel website. Yes, it is a Greek Island and it is summer, but there is life beyond the beach … Read more about Our latest travel writing: in print and online
Our research last year for the Syria chapter of our recently released Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook required that we visit everything already in the book, along with many more sights that weren’t in the guide. And while we loved visiting all of those “out of the way castles and ruins”, when making decisions … Read more about Our Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook: the challenges of guidebook research and other considerations
We’ve just received our author copies of our recently released Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook and I’m rather excited to see it in print as we put a lot of hard work into it. Admittedly, seeing a book for the first time is not as thrilling these days as it once was, especially as … Read more about Our Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook has hit the shelves!
We were surprised during our recent research trip in Italy to find that after Venice and Rome the country’s next most popular travel destination seemed to be Sirmione, a small walled town on a tiny peninsula, accessed by a drawbridge across the moat of a castle on gorgeous Lake Garda. It’s a place you rarely … Read more about The Cool Travel Guide to the Italian Lakes