Posts Tagged "the guardian"
Jordan’s green crusade
With all the Roman ruins and Petra, it’s tempting to focus on Jordan’s historic sites, but its nature reserves and their chic eco-lodges shouldn’t be missed Yellow grit, the depressing mesh fences of army barracks, and long chains of oil tankers coming in from Saudi Arabia. This was the Middle East as imagined by people who don’t know anything about the Middle East, and there had been nothing else in hours.
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Jordan’s green crusade
Oman’s desert island
Though Oman is the tourist hotspot of the Arabian peninsula, the remote island of Masirah is barely known, but that may soon change The moonlight stippled the breakers with silver. On the beach a large loggerhead turtle was busy excavating, flipping flurries of sand away behind her
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Oman’s desert island
Hot spots: what’s new in the Middle East
More and more of us are heading to north Africa and the Middle East, and there are plenty of new trips to these ancient lands Tour operators are reporting a sharp rise in bookings to the Middle East and north Africa as travellers grow more confident about unusual holidays. The Association of Independent Tour Operators said many of its members saw a rise in 2010. Cox & Kings said this is a record year, with bookings to the region up 75% on 2007, while Explore reports an increase of 66% to Syria.
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Restaurant: Gauthier Soho, London W1 | John Lanchester | Food & drink
Our new critic tucks into some seriously good French fare in Soho, but wonders if the chef could do with lightening up just a bit Food blog: Tell John Lanchester what you want from his reviews You can learn a lot about a country from its personal ads.
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Restaurant: Gauthier Soho, London W1 | John Lanchester | Food & drink
Grape fun: wine harvest festivals
There’s never a bad time to visit a vineyard, but one of the best is harvest time, when there are festivals, tasting events and even the chance to help pick the grapes Vendimia festival, Jerez, Spain Three weeks from Saturday, 4 September Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucía, sherry capital of the world, becomes a hive of wine-related activity and parties from the first weekend in September to celebrate the Vendimia festival. There’s bullfighting (including a comedy bullfight), motorcycle racing and flamenco dancing, as well as grape picking. The family friendly festivities kick off with the Queen of Sherry parade, when she tosses a bunch of grapes into a press for four workmen to tread for the first official pressing of the vintage, and children run after her chariot to catch the sweets she throws
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Grape fun: wine harvest festivals