Before I tell you about our travels in Calabria, I must share something about our recent visit to Rome (post-Istanbul) where we spent a week gathering content for several travel stories, experiencing walking tours, hotels, restaurants, and museums, doing interviews with fascinating locals, and for my husband and co-writer Terence, shooting photos. Despite the fact … Read more about It’s good to be a tourist in… Rome!
While in Istanbul last week I picked up the May special ‘Europe’ issue of US Travel + Leisure with a feature on “Hidden European Neighbourhoods”. The author writes: “Beyoglu is now reclaiming its status as Istanbul’s favourite playground”. Yet Beyoglu has always been Istanbul’s commercial heart and its main pedestrianised street is the city’s main … Read more about Or… everything old is new again
Around five years ago the glossy travel mags started talking up Croatia as the next hot destination and travel journos were writing about the country as if it had only just been discovered. The Croatian National Tourism Board saturated the global media with their ‘Mediterranean As It Once Was’ campaign and everyone bought it. And … Read more about One traveller’s ‘latest discovery’ is another’s old favorite