Living like locals or lolling about in luxury seem to be the two main factors for consideration for travellers choosing accommodation, according to the readers of this blog and Life in a Venti Cup. Those who want to live like locals want to immerse themselves in a place, absorb the culture and learn the language … Read more about Living like locals versus luxury and the lifestyle upgrade
If you read Hotel Chatter, Hotel Hotsheet or Happy Hotelier, you’d hardly think hotels were going out of style, however, I’m starting to see evidence to suggest otherwise. As much as I love browsing i-escape, tablet hotels and Mr & Mrs Smith, checking in to a design hotel or lolling about at a luxury resort, … Read more about Are hotels going out of fashion?
While some writing and photography commissions keep us on the road for a while crisscrossing regions and countries, as we’ve just done researching the Calabria guidebook, others, such as city guides, require us to settle down in one place for a while to do research. Usually we rent an apartment and create the ‘home’ we … Read more about At home in Milano: remembering the importance of having a room with view
Reminders of home are important to people no matter where they are, no more so than when they’re ‘away’. But they become especially precious to long term travellers like us who live out of their suitcases. When I was backpacking on my own in South America when I was younger, I carried a wooden incense … Read more about Creating a ‘home’ away
Two months ago we arrived in Antalya, Turkey, from Crete via Northern Cyprus. We weren’t in Turkey to research or write about Turkey. We were here to hole up at our friends’ villa in Kas and use it as a base for a month to write up the Crete and Cyprus books, write a tonne … Read more about Living like locals