The June-July issue of Jazeera Airways’J magazine features a few of our articles and Terence’s fab photography. If you’re not flying with the funky no-frills airline this month (or next), then you can read the stories online, although we love the layout and design of the printed magazines more. Check out Cyprus: Beyond the Beach, … Read more about Our latest travel writing: in print and online
It’s often said that if you have to ask how much you can’t afford it. I don’t agree. Luxury travel shouldn’t only be for the rich. Everyone deserves to be spoilt and pampered. Especially if it’s a special holiday, a honeymoon, anniversary, or birthday for instance. Or simply because you’ve been working really hard and … Read more about The price of luxury?
Last month there was so much rain in Dubai (for three whole days) that the city flooded and life in the metropolis ground to a halt. Whoever could have expected such weather in an Arabian Gulf city? When we first moved to the Emirates ten years ago it had been so dry that the imans … Read more about Sleet in Crete and floods in Dubai
If you’re heading to Dubai for the first time, take a look at my comprehensive first-timer’s guide to Dubai, just published on nineMSN travel:Dazzling Dubai… endless sunshine, superb eating, great shopping, and a glam nightlife — what’s not to love? And yet Dubai is a polarising place. As the world’s fastest growing city expands at … Read more about Dubai: a first-timer’s guide
Not far from Dubai’s gritty Karama and Satwa ‘hoods is Al-Musalla Rd, Bur Dubai, the city’s ‘Little India’. The side streets are lined with Bollywood tape shops and boutiques selling bejewelled and sequinned numbers modelled by kitsch mannequins. There are cheap Pakistani, Azerbaijani and Russian eateries, and Indian sweet shops. There’s a tea shop one … Read more about Dubai: best backstreets vol 2