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
So how, as travel writers, do we get ourselves into the situation I described in the last post? And is it possible to be a travel writer and avoid this frenzied pace of life? To answer the second question first, I don’t think it is possible if you want to make more than a decent … Read more about Envying a donkey his pace – the frenetic tempo of travel writing, part 2
Our recent trip around the Middle East (see this post) wasn’t meant to be that kind of trip. There was no guidebook to write. No insane photography commission for Terence to undertake. Just lots of stories and hotel reviews to research and a couple of meetings about a book we’re developing. However, somehow a trip … Read more about Envying a donkey his pace – the frenetic tempo of travel writing, part 1
Another postscript to my posts of a couple of weeks ago on blogging and Blogspot in Syria (see my last post and the postscript before it): after uploading the posts below, I received loads of emails and tweets from around the world, from Syrians asking everything from why I couldn’t go to an internet cafe … Read more about Postcript: blogging and Blogspot in Syria