Boasting breathtaking skylines of sail-shaped buildings, dancing towers, twisting skyscrapers, and even a tuning fork, the audacious architecture of Dubai makes the city a delight to visit for architects, designers, photographers, and travellers. I will never forget a conversation we overheard one day between a little boy and his father as Terence and I strolled by a construction … Read more
An Abu Dhabi to Al Ain road trip involves an easy drive through the desert sands that delivers in spades, with colossal sand dunes, grazing camels, and herds of Arabian sand gazelles. This road trip alone is reason to explore Abu Dhabi emirate. Beige and black camels lazily grazing on tufts of grass, colossal sand … Read more
How to experience the real Dubai isn’t all that hard when you know how – you just need to leave the side of your five-star hotel swimming pool and take a stroll through Old Dubai to soak up some of the emirates’ long rich history and explore the everyday neighbourhoods where the locals live. Skip … Read more
I don’t remember the name of a single hotel concierge from any of the hotels we’ve ever stayed at over our many years working as professional travel writers, and we’ve checked into thousands of hotels around the world. Yet I can name the couple of dozen or so concierges and managers of the holiday rentals … Read more
The best food experiences in Australia include everything from feasting on fish and chips by the beach and eating your way through Chinatown in Sydney and Melbourne to dining on multi-course degustation menus at Australia’s finest restaurants and tucking into meat pies with mushy peas at historic pubs. Washed down with great Australian wines and … Read more