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…

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Envying a donkey his pace – the frenetic tempo of travel writing, part 1

ByLara DunstonOct 7, 2009

Our recent trip around the Middle East (see this post)…

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Desk update from Abu Dhabi: month 45 on the road but whose counting?

ByLara DunstonSep 21, 2009

We’re back in the UAE and after a couple of…

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Postcript: blogging and Blogspot in Syria

ByLara DunstonAug 31, 2009

Another postscript to my posts of a couple of weeks…

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Blogging and Blogspot in Syria

ByLara DunstonAug 14, 2009

A number of people have contacted me on Twitter in…

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Access momentarily denied

ByLara DunstonAug 11, 2009

My harmless little blog Cool Travel Guide has been blocked…

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Aleppo’s labyrinthine souqs

ByLara DunstonAug 10, 2009

Aleppo’s labyrinthine souqs – or rather souqs within a souq…

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Aleppo and our room with a view

ByLara DunstonAug 10, 2009

Aleppo is Syria’s most atmospheric city after Damascus and it’s…

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Abu Shady, the last of Syria’s traditional storytellers still tells his tales

ByLara DunstonAug 9, 2009

One of our many reasons for coming to Syria this…

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Syria’s Bewitching Boutique Hotels

ByLara DunstonAug 8, 2009

Syria has long been home to some of the Middle…

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Damascus is Buzzing

ByLara DunstonAug 8, 2009

The atmosphere in Damascus is electric now, and the streets…

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Goodbye Dubai

ByLara DunstonAug 6, 2009

We spent our last night in the UAE in Dubai…

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Travel with us on Twitter

ByLara DunstonAug 4, 2009

I might not get much time to blog over the…