Another series of live chats with local experts is starting soon on the excellent NineMSN Travel site. (I wrote about the first series here.) As their Dubai Insider (along with Terence), I chatted with NineMSN readers back in September (read the transcripts here) and it was tonnes of fun: travellers asked everything from my must-do … Read more about Your chance to chat to an insider
You’re browsing a souq in the Middle East and a stunning carpet catches your eye. It would look very cool in your place back home, wouldn’t it? You catch the carpet salesman’s eye: “How much you want to pay?” he asks you. What do you say? Do you offer the first price that comes to … Read more about To haggle or not to haggle?
If you’re an aspiring travel writer looking for advice on how to improve your writing, develop angles, pitch stories, and essentially how to make it in this insanely competitive world of freelance travel writing, then check out travel writer David Whitley’s 1001 Travel Writer Tips blog. A couple of days ago I posted on what … Read more about 1001 Travel Writer Tips: here is Tip # 1002 from a travel writer
These are the coolest travel blogs as far as I’m concerned. If I was stranded on a desert island with my laptop and internet access… oh, and it’s an Australian desert island, which means there’s no broadband, it’s dial-up, there’s a convoluted ‘plan’ so you have no idea what you’re ultimately paying, the signal’s weak … Read more about My desert island blogs: the coolest travel blogs on the web
What makes a travel blog cool for you? And why? I’m often baffled by the winners of travel blog awards and why they’re there. The results of a recent contest got me thinking about what makes a travel blog cool for me. Here goes: 1) Personal vision: the blog has to reveal an individual way … Read more about What makes a travel blog cool