Bob Marley may be the king of reggae, but Ibrahim Mohamed Ali El Bedou is arguably the king of style… We met Ibrahim at The Monastery, which is about an hour climb north of Petra’s centre, on an ancient rock-cut path of about 800 steps. (800 STEPS!!! Yes people, another sporting achievement of the Guillaume-and-Eve team!!!). Such [...]

If you know us at all by now, you’d know that two of our favourite things are travel and…Polaroid photographs, of course! Although Polaroid is as instant as digital, its magic is unsurpassable. Digital upsets people in many countries. For them, it’s all about electronics, computers and the like. Well, in other words just another high-priced [...]

Vanessa Paradis, eat your heart out… I am not saying that Johnny Depp isn’t sexy. But he’s already had his turn. Time to move over Johnny and to make room for these sexy bedouins.

In true Indiana Jones style, it was pitch-dark as we walked into the ruins of the famous city of Petra, in Jordan. We passed through the twisting Siq all lit up by atmospheric lanterns, often only a claustrophobic metres wide with the sides towering 80 metres. A few crooked turns later, we caught the first glimpse of [...]

One of my regrets in Syria is that I didn’t get the chance to meet many women. While contact was very easy with males – in fact, Syrians are among the most friendly and hospitable people in the world, and we ended up being invited for a cup of tea in Damascene houses more than once [...]

Ever wonder where Madonna bought her bullet corsets or Pamela Anderson picked up her leather ones? Forget La Perla, Victoria Secrets, Trashy Lingerie and the like. We have the scoop. You don’t have to spend like a celeb to get the look! The most outrageous and exuberant lingerie in the world comes from a place you’d probably [...]

Ready for an extreme opposite-of-glamour testosterone explosion? Okay, so let’s do this, I’m totally up for it. Do you remember Marge’s 4WD in The Simpsons? Large, red, said to have space for over thirty passengers as well as the driver? When Marge uses it, she develops road rage. Well, we found it. Yes…The Canyonero, in the [...]

After our spiritual quest in Nepal and the mighty Himalayas, we stopped for a couple of days in Dubai. No holy Hindu sadhus nor Buddhist monks there! Oh no! But instead six-star hotels shaped like giant sails or shoes or starfish… Skyscrapers so tall the moon has to steer its way around them… Immense off-shore man-made archipelagos, [...]

Clouds loom on top of the mountains and the cold wind starts to nag us. The peak of Annapurna II is looming at the horizon. 2 more days and some steep ascent of 2,000 meters, and we reach the 5,416m Thorong La pass, high above the clouds. Muktinath, at 3,710 meters, is waiting for us, after a steep [...]

After a couple of days, we now begin to get into the rhythm of trekking. Wake-up call each morning around 6 am, having a quick breakfast of Tibetan bread and tea, then heading out in the cool morning. As a blue-white day rises up around us from the dark blue palette of the perished night, we [...]