Athletic bullfighters, dressed to kill in their elaborate, flamboyant, and heavily embroidered ‘suits of light’ are no longer part of Barcelona’s arts and entertainment; the six hundred year old tradition of fighting bulls is now banned here. Whether for animal welfare or simply as a rejection of Spanish culture is hard to decipher, but either way it is a powerful indication of how Barcelona has a clear sense of identity and is not afraid of change.

This vibrant Mediterranean city leapt onto the world’s stage, full of youthful energy and hope in 1992 with the Olympics, and now twenty years later continues to reinvent itself as a flourishing capital of commerce, fashion and style.

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Here is a feature fo mine, for ‘the tourism magazine’ published by Sur in English, sponsored by the  Junta de Andalucia, for The World Travel Market 2011.

Northern Spain as many of you know is a favourite part of the world for me, so when I was asked to write about Asturias, it was a real pleasure.

In the current issue of Tout Magazine are a series of translated articles of mine about Singapore. Here are some snapshots:

Dubai has become a maelstrom of construction, commerce, and high volume tourism. Yet there is one place to shelter from this desert storm; the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve of Al Maha.