Blog Posts
The posts are archived. Mainly from my site “Cool Travel Guide” where I wrote about our travels before 2010 when we started Grantourismo Travels.
Due to the age of these posts, some may be missing images…
Envying a donkey his pace – the frenetic tempo of travel writing, part 1
Our recent trip around the Middle East (see this post)…
Desk update from Abu Dhabi: month 45 on the road but whose counting?
We’re back in the UAE and after a couple of…
Postcript: blogging and Blogspot in Syria
Another postscript to my posts of a couple of weeks…
Blogging and Blogspot in Syria
A number of people have contacted me on Twitter in…
Access momentarily denied
My harmless little blog Cool Travel Guide has been blocked…
Aleppo’s labyrinthine souqs
Aleppo’s labyrinthine souqs – or rather souqs within a souq…
Aleppo and our room with a view
Aleppo is Syria’s most atmospheric city after Damascus and it’s…
Abu Shady, the last of Syria’s traditional storytellers still tells his tales
One of our many reasons for coming to Syria this…
Syria’s Bewitching Boutique Hotels
Syria has long been home to some of the Middle…
Damascus is Buzzing
The atmosphere in Damascus is electric now, and the streets…
Goodbye Dubai
We spent our last night in the UAE in Dubai…
Travel with us on Twitter
I might not get much time to blog over the…