Which hotels do travel writers check into when they go on holidays? That’s what Mark Hudson, a writer himself for The Sunday Times, among other publications, was keen to know, so he asked 50 of them (including myself) and published their recommendations, ‘Where travel writers pay to stay’, on his site 101 Holidays. I’ve been … Read more about Where travel writers stay when they go on holidays
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 and camping at Wadi Rum to floating and spa-ing at the Dead Sea, we’ve done … Read more about An update from the road
We’re back in the UAE and after a couple of days in Dubai, we’re chained to desks once again in Abu Dhabi – not our desks, but those of our friends, at their colossal home in the new part of the capital, off the island. The closest thing to a ‘home’ for us, of course, … Read more about Desk update from Abu Dhabi: month 45 on the road but whose counting?
We should have known this wasn’t going to be a normal night at the opera when the crowd at the Arena at Verona started doing the Mexican wave. I’d only seen the Mexican wave at the football, so it was quite a shock – at the opera no less, but at Verona’s Arena? But maybe … Read more about A night at the opera in Verona, or, When is opera not opera? When it’s pure spectacle
By Terence and Lara When we were in Milan recently we had drinks with some hotel executives we’d met in Istanbul while attending the W opening. The PR person of the Milan hotel where we’d met for aperitivi told us how impressed she was that we’d had several story commissions on the hotel, its restaurant … Read more about The travel journalists’ junket: why we don’t do them