Feb
07
We hosted a little Arabian-inspired pre-launch party for Grantourismo yesterday here at our villa on The Palm. As is typical of Dubai, our guest list was multicultural, and included Dubai bloggers and ‘tweeps’, and a handful of friends, all from the media, publishing, arts, hospitality, and airline industries – and all really lovely people. I devised …
Feb
05
There is nothing quite as relaxing as a late weekend breakfast, or a slow breakfast on a holiday. After a couple of coffees and an attempt at working your way through the weekend edition of your favourite newspaper, you’re probably getting peckish. One of the things we love about a rental house or apartment over …
Jan
27
As we’ve travelled the globe over the past few years we’ve noticed an increasing trend for markets around the world to all sell the same trashy manufactured stuff. From Jordan to Spain and Bangkok to Bahrain the same cheap, mass-produced souvenirs, plastic trinkets and machine-made textiles and carpets keep turning up, from Kashmiri ‘pashminas’ made …
Jan
20
Local travel and connecting with locals is going to be a big part of what we do here on Grantourismo. Because sometimes it’s the people you meet on your travels, as much as the places you visit, that makes travel meaningful and memorable. Whether it’s an all-night conversation with an engaging character on a plane …
Jan
13
Think back to the last time you had to book a holiday house for a family reunion or choose a resort for your summer getaway. Remember the hours you spent trawling through photos and descriptions on websites? Flicking through the back page ads in stacks of old Conde Nast Travellers? Multiply that by 26 and …
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