Inspiring Travel Writing from Fiona Dunlop: Page 3 of 3
Articles by Fiona Dunlop: Page 3 of 3
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Muscat
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Fiona Dunlop
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Oman
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Muscat Region
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Muscat
Unknowingly, I arrive in Muscat just after National Day, November 18th. It is dark, or supposed to be, but it feels like I have landed in fairyland. The place is ablaze with lights: red, green and white, the colours of the Omani flag. Garlands of...
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Yangon
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Fiona Dunlop
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Burma (Myanmar)
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Rangoon Region
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Rangoon
Yangon, the Rangoon of British colonial days, hovers somewhere between a mini-Bangkok and the emerging Ho Chi Minh City of 15 years ago. Typically South-East Asian, it displays leprous colonial façades beside high-rises, lush vegetation, rickshaws,...
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A Tripolitanian Shopping Basket
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Fiona Dunlop
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Libya
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Tripoli Region
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Tripoli
If you can get yourself invited into a private Libyan home, an unexpected experience opens up. With no pretensions, good humour and general low-key chaos, your hosts will cook simple, appetising, healthy food, unknowingly alternating original...
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Fez: Food and Restaurants
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Fiona Dunlop
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Morocco
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Northern Morocco
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Fez
Aristocratic, cultured, deeply religious, Fez has to be the most compelling medieval city in the world. Its site, too, is spectacular, spilling over fertile hills between the Middle Atlas and Rif mountains of northern Morocco. This is where to...
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Palmyra: In The Footsteps Of Lady Jane
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Fiona Dunlop
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
To one side of the road stretched a stark escarpment, to the other the march of huge pylons, otherwise the smudgey yellow horizon was empty bar the occasional truck. We passed a daunting highway sign to Baghdad then, minutes later, a more rustic...
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Palestine's Food of Conflict
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Fiona Dunlop
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Israel
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Israel and the Palestinian Territories
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Jerusalem
In the shade of gnarled olive-trees, their leaves stirred by a gentle breeze, we look out over Biblical hills and valleys of chalky limestone. There are no bird-calls, just the muezzin and the thunder of traffic from the highway below. Then, with...
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Paradise Found or Paradise Lost? A Trip to the Andaman Islands
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Fiona Dunlop
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Thailand
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Southern Thailand: The Andaman Coast
Ptolemy, the Roman geographer, may have charted them way back in the 2nd century, but until recently the Andaman’s were pretty much off the radar. Scattered seductively over the turquoise depths of the Bay of Bengal, the 204 islands are a two-hour...
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Best Towns in Malaga Province: A Guide to Andalucia
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Fiona Dunlop
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Spain
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Andalucia
Central Andalucía has it all, from a sweep of high density resorts bordering the Mediterranean to cosseting towns of the wild interior like Ronda or Antequera. In summer, glitzy Marbella is the long-standing hotspot for anyone with sailing, golfing...
Reviews by Fiona Dunlop: Page 3 of 3
Metro Hotel on Pitt | Fiona DunlopMetro Hotel on Pitt lies in the buzzy historic heart of Sydney, south of the iconic harbour sights. Sandwiched between high-rise symbols of burgeoning prosperity, it makes an easy-going, convenient base for getting round the sights. It may not offer...
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