Stories from Cool Travel Guide
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An update from the road... from our grand tour to Montenegro!
Cool Travel Guide &bull May 4, 2010
This is the longest I've gone without posting on my poor neglected Cool Travel Guide. You want to know why? Drop byGrantourismoand you'll see that we've been a tad busy on our grand tour of the world but generating some… Full Story »
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Grantourismo & how we came to be going on a grand tour in 2010
Cool Travel Guide &bull Feb 6, 2010
Terry and I have been dreaming about doing a grand tour of sorts for a few years - since way back when we wrote the Grantourismo blog for Charles and Marie. We started to seriously develop the idea of a… Full Story »
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Grantourismo - 12 months, 24 destinations, countless experiences
Cool Travel Guide &bull Feb 6, 2010
Finishing writing projects (books, stories, reviews) and planning our exciting new project called Grantourismo, a contemporary grand tour of sorts, has kept us busy throughout December and January, and once again prevented me from updating this poor neglected little blog.… Full Story »
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Burj Khalifa and How Bridges, Buildings and other Big Things Unite Nations
Cool Travel Guide &bull Jan 7, 2010
I'm a fan of Twitter but I was on deadline and only half-following tweets a few nights ago as messages streamed in from people in the UAE at the inauguration of the world's tallest building Burj... [[ This is a… Full Story »
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Busy in Beirut, Bangkok, Bendigo, and now blogging the globe
Cool Travel Guide &bull Jan 7, 2010
The posts I'm popping up on my poor neglected travel blog over the next few days have been a long time coming, some I drafted from Beirut in November, others I scribbled almost a month ago while I... [[ This… Full Story »
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The affection that comes with familiarity versus the energy of an unfamiliar destination
Cool Travel Guide &bull Dec 11, 2009
Only two of the nine countries we visited in the last six months were new to us, places we hadn't been before and were experiencing for the first time. Obviously, as travel writers, it's inevitable... [[ This is a content… Full Story »
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Are you a once-in-a-lifetime traveller or a creature of habit?
Cool Travel Guide &bull Dec 10, 2009
Are you a 'once-in-a-lifetime' traveller? That is, every country you visit you consider it to be a 'once-in-a-lifetime' experience and treat it as such? Do you go to a place thinking you may... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit… Full Story »
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An update from the road
Cool Travel Guide &bull Nov 23, 2009
I've been silent for some time, I know. We've been on the road again in the Middle East on commissions for a few in-flight and travel magazines, and our pace has been hectic to say the least - from... [[… Full Story »
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Your worst hotel experience?
Cool Travel Guide &bull Oct 16, 2009
A recent hotel stay reminded us of just how bad they can occasionally be. We checked into a respectable five star city hotel in the early evening, did some work, then went out to dinner and checked... [[ This is… Full Story »
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Travel insights from travel experts - yes please!
Cool Travel Guide &bull Oct 13, 2009
I am probably suffering from chronic information overload - how about you? - but increasingly I'm finding myself wanting to read more informed opinions from people with experience and expertise in a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit… Full Story »
