We’re currently on the road in Australia and while our paid writing gigs and other demands have prevented me from posting much over the last month or two (explained here), I can thank a few other travel bloggers for some wonderful online coverage. I did a thought-provoking interview with globetrotting travel blogger Nomadic Matt which … Read more about In print and online
Please forgive me for the silence. It’s been 10 days since my last post. I’m busy writing books and other stuff. But I’ll be back in the travel blogosphere next week, I hope. In the meantime, I’ll touch base on twitter every now and again. Well, a travelling girl chained to a desk for 18 … Read more about A message from this busy travel blogger
Hotel gurus Mr and Mrs Smith recently shared their secrets as to How Smith finds hotels on their engaging blog. Mrs Smith is a Cool Travel Guide reader and after she recently commented on my post Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: judge it by its author, I asked her how she selects hotels. Mr and … Read more about How travel writers ‘discover’ hotels
We get it. You’re a ‘fresh’ contemporary hotel that has fresh fruit and doesn’t mind wasting it by putting it in vases. All throughout the hotel. Sometimes it looks like they’re there for the guests to enjoy, but most times they just look silly. Apples sitting on pebbles in vases. Apples in marbles in vases. … Read more about 10 things that annoy us about hotels #5 Apples in vases and other silly design ‘trends’