Monthly Archive: June 2012

Jun 30

Slow and Sustainable Travel and Cruise Ship Travel

Is cruise ship travel a slow and sustainable form of travel? In many ways it epitomizes slow travel – the unhurried pace, the focus on leisure and experiential activities, the languid vibe on board the boats. But slow travel is by its very nature low impact, which cruise ship travel isn’t always. So is it …

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Jun 29

Chef Dan Hunter and the Royal Mail Hotel at Dunkeld

The food of Chef Dan Hunter and the Royal Mail Hotel at Dunkeld is food worth travelling for and the Grampians region, where it’s located, makes a great escape from Melbourne, and is easily worth a couple of days of your time. We’d been trying to experience the Royal Mail since 2009 when we were …

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Jun 27

Spa Break, Bootcamp, Massage School – Blissing Out, Skilling Up

Spa break, bootcamp, massage school… as I’ve been doing research online to see if there are any mass alms-giving ceremonies coming up in Thailand over the next two months that will give me the opportunity to re-shoot the photo on that holiday that you helped us win, I’ve also been thinking about the kind of …

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Jun 24

Sony No More Bad Photos Contest – the Winners

A few weeks ago, at the invitation of Sony Australia, Grantourismo and a dozen other blogs launched a contest called No More Bad Photos. As we don’t really have any bad photos on Grantourismo thanks to the fact that one of us is a professional photographer and that person is obviously not me, I decided …

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Jun 23

Ticket to Paradise Giveaway

This is perhaps not the Ticket to Paradise giveaway you were expecting – sorry, no free holidays to hand out here – however, we do have four copies of the book Ticket to Paradise to give you, courtesy of the nice people at HarperCollins and ABC Books. And if we finish our copy soon and it’s not …

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