Aleppo is Syria’s most atmospheric city after Damascus and it’s our next favorite destination after the capital, the highlights for us being the medieval souq, the labyrinthine old quarters dotted around the inner-city, and the complex cuisine, arguably the most interesting in the Middle East. The new town with its stylish cafes – currently full … Read more about Aleppo and our room with a view
One of our many reasons for coming to Syria this time was to interview Abu Shady, the last of the hakawati, or traditional storytellers. We last interviewed him almost two and half years ago when we were here to update our Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook – that’s the ‘current’ edition every Western traveller … Read more about Abu Shady, the last of Syria’s traditional storytellers still tells his tales
Check out some of our latest travel work In print and online, including a review of Pierre Gagnaire‘s extravagant restaurant Reflet at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City in the latest issue of Gulf Air’s in-flight magazine Gulf Life. You can read the online version of the review here and you can also take a look … Read more about In print and online
Aside from our new Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook hitting the shelves, we had a couple of articles appear on the web recently. Check out our “Off the beach in Crete” piece on the NineMSN Travel website. Yes, it is a Greek Island and it is summer, but there is life beyond the beach … Read more about Our latest travel writing: in print and online
Our research last year for the Syria chapter of our recently released Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook required that we visit everything already in the book, along with many more sights that weren’t in the guide. And while we loved visiting all of those “out of the way castles and ruins”, when making decisions … Read more about Our Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon guidebook: the challenges of guidebook research and other considerations