While researching hotel prices for a story on Sydney, I discovered trivago, supposedly the world’s largest hotel comparison site. My first thought was: why had I not been using the site before. I had heard about the site previously, took a quick peek, but I have to admit I never spent any time on it. … Read more about Find Cheap Hotels With Trivago
We’re back in the UAE and after a couple of days in Dubai, we’re chained to desks once again in Abu Dhabi – not our desks, but those of our friends, at their colossal home in the new part of the capital, off the island. The closest thing to a ‘home’ for us, of course, … Read more about Desk update from Abu Dhabi: month 45 on the road but whose counting?
Dark tourism is not new, as my readers (whose insightful comments always inspire further reflection) point out: Travel Muse recalls touring German war sites as a teenager, while Sandy suggests that The Crusades, which revolved around a fascination with the macabre, might also have been an early version of dark tourism. Indeed, the thesis of … Read more about The history of dark tourism: from Roman gladiator spectacles to contemporary conflict zone tours
As I’m way too busy writing books at the moment to blog, I’m going to post about the things I’m taking pleasure in reading during my coffee breaks. For starters, I’m enjoying catching up on my co-author and husband Terence’s blog Wide angles, wine and wanderlust, and his recent post on Hester Blumenthal’s food poisoning … Read more about ‘Don’t believe the hype’: tales of Hollandaise in Tetra Paks and other travel research disasters
‘Is it hot in Dubai?’, ‘Do you know when Ramadan is?’ and ‘Am I right in thinking that as an Arab country there are some booze restrictions?’ were just some of the questions asked of me by readers of the NineMSN Travel site during a live chat, that went hand-in-hand with our Dubai Insider’s Guide. … Read more about Does anyone still research the place they’re heading to before they travel?