Learning a new language during lockdown will prepare you for future travels, helping you to have a more immersive and enriching experience of your destination when it’s safe to travel abroad again. Learning a foreign language will also keep you engaged and keep any anxiety at bay while you’re staying at home or in quarantine. … Read more
This weekend at home itinerary is a guide to how to spend 48 hours at home if you’re social distancing or self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic but you still want to make your weekend a bit special, even meaningful and memorable. Since we launched Grantourismo over a decade ago, we’ve published weekend itineraries to dozens … Read more
Learning Swahili from the locals in the Masai Mara was a really fun part of our Kenya experience. Every person we met made an effort to teach us a word or two of Swahili, the local language. Imagine how much better we’d all communicate with each other if that enthusiasm for sharing local languages was … Read more
Learning the art of African beading in classes in Cape Town, South Africa, was something I had wanted to do from the first day when I began noticing beautiful beaded jewellery and products everywhere. African beading lessons were high on my list of things to do during our stay. I’d long loved colourful African beaded … Read more
Getting cooking lessons in Cape Town’s Cape Malay cuisine in a Cape Malay Cooking Class in Bo-Kaap was high on our to-do list when we settled into the South African city for two weeks. Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap neighbourhood is beloved for its picture-postcard streetscapes with their candy coloured terrace houses, cobblestones and quaint mosques. However, … Read more