Camel Cuisine in Dubai
Tamara Pitelen heads to a Dubai restaurant where the house speciality is camel with everything – and realises the ships of the desert are now served with chips.
By Tamara Pitelen
Categories United Arab Emirates
Amman, Jordan
Victoria Aitken tackles street directions in one of the most fascinating, dangerous parts of the Middle East.
By Victoria Aitken
Categories Cultural, Destinations, Jordan
Goddess Gold – Damacus, Syria
The Oldest Restaurant in the Old City Old Town restaurant in Syria is the exotic Arab haunt that our great-grandmothers might have known. The oldest eating place in the Old City, it’s also been noted in British Vogue. Book and view at www.oldtown-sy.com.
By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Goddess Gold, Middle East
Diving in Dibba
Tamara Pitelen goes looking for turtles just two hours from Dubai, armed with her Open Water Diver certificate and a longing for real-life Nemo fish. If someone gave you a map of the world and asked you to stick a pin in Dibba, I wouldn’t really blame you if your expression took on that of [...]
By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories United Arab Emirates
Bahrain for Beginners
Bahrain for Beginners Victoria Aitken is invited to a wedding in Bahrain, where the locals wave at you in the streets – and mineral water can cost more than oil. When the door to the plane opened to the dry heat and sunshine of Bahrain, I felt so grateful to be visiting, smallest state in [...]
By Victoria Aitken
Categories Bahrain, Middle East
