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Editor’s Note: Lara Dunston has written half a dozen travel guides to Dubai and the UAE and has made it her home base since 1998.

Abu Dhabi, the dazzling capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (no, the capital is not Dubai) has been getting a bit of media coverage lately. Dare I say it, but the city-emirate is even starting to steal some of the spotlight from Dubai. The attention is mainly due to the recent opening of a colossal (more…)

By Sarah Maxwell from Palabras de Portenos.

Tango dancers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Marlis Seelos.

Here I sit in the patio of a café in Buenos Aires’s small but vibrant Chinatown, dunking a biscotti into a cup of espresso, an indulgence enjoyed underneath the simple pleasure of a tree’s leafy shade. Life is good. The smells of cocina asiatica waft through the air, and the Spainese mix the cooks speak (more…)

Now that we have well and truly entered the age of the budget airline, international airports are popping up all over the place. For instance, why slink into the UK via the transit lounges of London when Birmingham could be your international destination of choice?

Forget the long queues at the capitol airport’s immigration desk, things are a little more manageable in Birmingham. And 16 pounds just to get into town from Heathrow? (more…)

By Nomadic Matt

Shiva imitation. Rishikesh, India. By Nicola Wheeler.

Guest contributor: Nomadic Matt.

In my last article, I talked about the highs of travel. While travel is a mostly amazing experience, nomadic living is not always glitter and gold. In fact, if you spend enough time on the road, something bad is bound to happen. Murphy’s Law is never wrong and eventually you find that there are plenty of lows (more…)