Mar 21
From chilly Edinburgh, where our yearlong grand tour officially ended, we went to the splendid Atlantic coast city of Porto in Northern Portugal, where we shed some layers, soaked up some welcome sunshine, saw cobalt skies for the first time in months, and attended Wine Pleasures’ 2011 International Wine Tourism Conference. As wine, along with …
Mar 12
For our twelfth and final contest in our yearlong series of monthly Grantourismo HomeAway Holiday-Rentals travel blogging competitions we asked you to list your 10 most memorable travel moments. It was a tough contest to judge this year with so many outstanding entries, but our February Competition winners are… FIRST PRIZE A stay at a HomeAway Holiday-Rentals …
Mar 05
In our last post on What Things Cost Around the World, we compared the dockets of our Price Check shopping lists from some 24 destinations we stayed at around the world on our yearlong grand tour. Our goal was to give self-catering travellers who like settling into places for a while an idea of what …
Mar 04
Aimed at helping travellers staying in holiday rentals and settling into a place for a while, Price Check is a series of posts in which we reported every two weeks on the prices of groceries (no, not only beer) at each destination we stayed on our yearlong grand tour. This post is a comparison of …
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