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What I do and don’t miss about Dubai

Nov 16th, 2017 | By Kaye Holland

It’s been 10 years since I left the dazzling desert kingdom of Dubai. Here’s a few of the things I’m happy to have said goodbye to – followed by those that I miss

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Tags: abras, Burj Al Arab, censorship, dhows, Dubai, Emirates Towers, Emirati, expat, expats, Jumeriah, market, Middle East, migrants, Sheikh Zayed Road, souks, sun, sunshine, The Burj Khalifa, The Palm, UAE, United Arab Emirates

What’s hot: August 2016

Aug 1st, 2016 | By Kaye Holland

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now

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Tags: Airbnb, Brexit, cambridge, Croydon, expat, holiday brochures, Kate Moss, LA, National Trust, Natural History Museum, Prince, San Francisco, Shoreditch, TUI, Washington DC

What’s hot: July 2016

Jul 2nd, 2016 | By Kaye Holland

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now …

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Tags: Airbnb, America, Breaking Bad, British Airways, cabin crew, Chile, China, Disney, Disney Shanghai, Edinburgh, expat, Greenwich, London, Russia, Santiago, UK, USA, Virgin Atlantic

The Airbnb epidemic

Aug 21st, 2014 | By Kaye Holland

Generation X has embraced Airbnb says Gen X’er Kaye Holland

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Tags: Accommodation, Airbnb, amsterdam, Chiltern Firehouse, Couch Surfing, expat, holiday, London, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, The Book of Mormon, Travel

Instagram is agony

Aug 16th, 2014 | By Kaye Holland

Kaye Holland wishes we would all – occasionally – put down our favourite devices

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Tags: amsterdam, Chiltern Firehouse, Dubai, Empire State Building, expat, Hamburg, Instagram, iPhone, Kim Kardashian, Mexico, New York, Sanya, Shanghai, social media, Twitter

Travel guide books: good or bad?

Feb 28th, 2012 | By The Editor

Yesterday we told you how glossy travel brochures could soon be consigned to the bin.

But if my experience today is anything to go by, it is not brochures but travel guides by the like of Lonely Planet at al that could be on their way out.

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Tags: brochures, expat, Germany, guidebooks, London, Lonely Planet, Singapore, Time Out

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