Inspiring Travel Writing from Lara Dunston and Terence Carter
Authors of countless feature stories, thousands of hotel reviews and over 40 travel guidebooks, Australian travel writer Lara Dunston and her co-author and photographer-husband Terence Carter currently call hotel rooms their home(s). The perpetual globetrotters have experienced over 60 countries since they started travelling together in the late 80s and have been based out of the Middle East since 1998. Since January 2006 they have lived out of their Samsonites after putting their worldly possessions in storage in Dubai, UAE, so that they could have the flexibility to bounce around the planet from one assignment to another.
The couple wrote guidebooks for Dorling Kindersley, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Footprint, AA Guides, Fodors, Insight and Thomas Cook, before deciding that there must be more lucrative ways to make a living as travel writers. While they loved the way guidebook research allowed them to get beneath the skin of a place, they’re just as delighted to fly into a destination for a few weeks on magazine commissions and meet writers, chefs, musicians and artists, because in their opinion the most pleasurable part of travel are the people you meet in the places you go to.
Over the years, Lara and Terence have found themselves writing, and Terence shooting photos, for all forms of media. They’ve done everything from create walking tours on Paris for Sony PSP to research Middle East personalities for a Lonely Planet TV series. Their words and pictures has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Wanderlust, The Independent, USA Today, Hemispheres, Paperplane, Get Lost, Lifestyle+Travel, Voyageur, Emirates Open Skies, Gulf Life, J Mag, Connect, M Lifestyle, Ritz-Carlton magazine, BBC History, Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, and Sunday Telegraph, and have been syndicated in dozens of newspapers from the Houston Chronicle to Chicago Tribune.
Lara and Terence are NineMSN Travel’s Dubai Insiders, destination experts for Triporati, and write for Viator, as well as scribbling their own travel blogs. Lara reflects about the things she finds cool (and not so cool) about travel and travel writing at Cool Travel Guide.
The couple wrote guidebooks for Dorling Kindersley, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Footprint, AA Guides, Fodors, Insight and Thomas Cook, before deciding that there must be more lucrative ways to make a living as travel writers. While they loved the way guidebook research allowed them to get beneath the skin of a place, they’re just as delighted to fly into a destination for a few weeks on magazine commissions and meet writers, chefs, musicians and artists, because in their opinion the most pleasurable part of travel are the people you meet in the places you go to.
Over the years, Lara and Terence have found themselves writing, and Terence shooting photos, for all forms of media. They’ve done everything from create walking tours on Paris for Sony PSP to research Middle East personalities for a Lonely Planet TV series. Their words and pictures has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Wanderlust, The Independent, USA Today, Hemispheres, Paperplane, Get Lost, Lifestyle+Travel, Voyageur, Emirates Open Skies, Gulf Life, J Mag, Connect, M Lifestyle, Ritz-Carlton magazine, BBC History, Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, and Sunday Telegraph, and have been syndicated in dozens of newspapers from the Houston Chronicle to Chicago Tribune.
Lara and Terence are NineMSN Travel’s Dubai Insiders, destination experts for Triporati, and write for Viator, as well as scribbling their own travel blogs. Lara reflects about the things she finds cool (and not so cool) about travel and travel writing at Cool Travel Guide.
Reviews by Lara Dunston and Terence Carter
Four Seasons Doha | Lara Dunston an...No one does a welcome quite like the Four Seasons. And in the Arabian Gulf, with amplification provided by the notion of Arab hospitality, the Four Seasons Doha, set on the Corniche next to the sparkling sea, succeeds with excess when it comes to...