Inspiring Travel Writing from Rowena Carr-Allinson
With a mixed European background, Rowena grew up always the ‘foreigner’ and quickly came to feel home was wherever she lay her hat.
Starting out a career at the Financial Times, she went onto sports reporting and producing interactive content for Sony Pictures and LivingTV before settling back into writing full time.
Her travel stories and reviews have appeared in the UK, Canada, US, South Africa and Australia – in everything from the Toronto Star to London’s Metro, Harpers Bazaar, Elle and OK! Magazine - as well as several bridal publications, in-flights, specialist travel publications and even a 1001 Escapes book.
She splits her time between the UK and France where she lives with her husband and is partial to cooking, entertaining friends, fluffy cats, sarcasm and global shopping.
Starting out a career at the Financial Times, she went onto sports reporting and producing interactive content for Sony Pictures and LivingTV before settling back into writing full time.
Her travel stories and reviews have appeared in the UK, Canada, US, South Africa and Australia – in everything from the Toronto Star to London’s Metro, Harpers Bazaar, Elle and OK! Magazine - as well as several bridal publications, in-flights, specialist travel publications and even a 1001 Escapes book.
She splits her time between the UK and France where she lives with her husband and is partial to cooking, entertaining friends, fluffy cats, sarcasm and global shopping.
Articles by Rowena Carr-Allinson
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A Night Out in Beirut
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Rowena Carr-Allinson
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Lebanon
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Beirut Region
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Beirut
“We Lebanese are excellent drivers” says our guide for the night, 21-year old student Adonis. Her friend Diane quips “If not we’d be dead! The only rule is not to hit the other cars”. Adonis is weaving her bulky old style Mercedes through Beirut’s...
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St Petersburg Restaurants
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Rowena Carr-Allinson
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Russia
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Baltic Coast
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St Petersburg
Not so long ago when mentioning a visit to Russia, the general reaction would be turned up noses and a precipitation of jokes about the upcoming cabbage and potato diet. No longer. Indeed, where once upon a time restaurants were monopolised by...
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Texas: Shooting in the Badlands
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Rowena Carr-Allinson
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United States
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Texas
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Dallas
‘Nice Shooting, Miss!’ I heard though my muffling blue earplugs. Our host smiled at me encouragingly. This was not, I thought, a phrase I was expecting to hear during my lifetime. Here I was standing in the middle of nowhere, Texas, in front of a...