In May, my photographer husband Terence Carter and I hosted a culinary travel writing and photography tour with Backyard Travel. It was delicious fun although completely exhausting, so we’re doing things a little differently next time. Here’s what to expect… You can read about the first tour here and here and we’ll be posting more details about the … Read more about New Cambodia Culinary Tour Dates Coming Soon
One of the most infuriating things for a travel writer is being told, “You haven’t stayed long enough” or “you can’t see everything/anything here in a month – you can’t even see it in a year!” Let me explain why… A bit of background first. One of the reasons we packed up our apartment in … Read more about How Much Time Is Enough Time In A Place?
The re-launch of Cool Travel Guide has been a long time coming. And while this is a soft launch of sorts, we still have a few tweaks to make, loads of archival posts to re-tag, and some text to finish. But something has motivated me to re-launch today, and I’ll tell you about that in … Read more about Welcome to the New Cool Travel Guide
The posts I will be popping up on my poor neglected travel blog over the next few days have been a long time coming. Some I drafted back in Beirut in November, others I scribbled almost a month ago while I was recovering from bronchial pneumonia from a hotel room in Bangkok where we were … Read more about Busy in Beirut, Bangkok, Bendigo, and now blogging the globe
One of the reasons I began Cool Travel Guide was to write about the things I couldn’t write about in the highly prescriptive guidebooks I made my living writing. My first post ‘Aleppo: no practicalities’ explained my motivation and my desire to have a space where I could write whatever I wanted to write. I’m … Read more about What is Cool Travel Guide?