We’re excited to be announcing the sixth contest in our yearlong series of monthly Grantourismo travel blogging competitions. This time we want you to create an inspiring blog post comprised of one (1) portrait photograph* of a person you’ve met on your travels who touched you in some way and 250 words* describing the moment …
Daily Archive: August 8, 2010
Aug
08
Grantourismo Travel Blogging Competition: July Winners
For our July Grantourismo Travel Blogging Competition we asked you to submit a shot that captured the colour and spirit of a local festival and write 250 words describing the event and how it affected you. Our winners are… FIRST PRIZE: Jiffer Bourguignon of the Smash and Sniff blog has won a stay at a HomeAway Holiday-Rentals …
Aug
08
Why You Need to Walk More: a Conversation with Context
We first used Context a couple of years ago when we were working on some stories in Rome. We were just starting to develop Grantourismo then, and in a way Context was part of our experiment. We wanted to see if walking tours such as those offered by Context could be a way for people to …
Aug
08
A Taste of the Immigrant Experience of New York
At the end of two weeks of eating in New York City we still felt like we’d missed something. We’d had the gamut of food experiences, at all quality and price levels, from gastro-pubs to gastronomic fine-diners, hot dogs to hamburgers, from ‘ethnic’ to American, but we still didn’t quite ‘get’ New York food. And …




















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