Lara DunstonA 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 afterwards. We’d had a really exhausting day – morning shoot, long drive, flat tyre, an … Read more about Your worst hotel experience?
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. If I’m doing research or simply trying to stay abreast of trends, I don’t … Read more about Travel insights from travel experts
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 experts sometimes get special treatment and they can rarely shut themselves off from the act … Read more about Travel experts versus ‘real’ travellers
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 – which was Bacchus at Read’s, Mallorca, where we dined at the Chef’s Table and Terence … Read more about Behind-the-scenes in a Michelin-starred chef’s kitchen and the kindness of chefs
It’s been a busy period for Terence and I, as you’ve gathered from the dearth of blog posts these last months. And we’ve got a lot of travel work being published to prove it, from a small ‘Up Next’ piece on Abu Dhabi in the September edition of National Geographic Traveler to half a dozen … Read more about In print and online