100 Essential Asia Pacific Experiences Named and Our Culinary Tour is One of Them

DestinAsian Magazine, 100 Essential Asia Pacific Experiences for 2018. Copyright © 2018 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

100 essential Asia Pacific experiences for your 2018 travel bucket list have been named by DestinAsian in the travel magazine’s latest issue and we’re excited that our Cambodia Culinary Tour Handmade, Homecooked and Hands-on edition has been named as one of them. To celebrate their 100th issue, Asia’s top travel magazine, DestinAsian, has compiled a list … Read more

Best of 2012: Travel Highlights From Another Year Grand Touring

Best of 2012: Travel Highlights From Another Year Grand Touring. Looking over Lake Wakatipu from Matakauri Lodge, Queenstown, New Zealand. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Here’s a look back at the best of 2012 travel highlights from another year grand touring – from the bathtub of New Zealand’s beautiful Matakauri Lodge no less – a year in which our travels focused largely on Asia and Australasia. It was a year in which we seemed to continuously be doing journeys, by … Read more

New Zealand Sceptics? Not Likely!

New Zealand Sceptics? Not Likely! Lake Wanaka, Otago on the South Island of New Zealand. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

New Zealand sceptics? Not us! Whenever we met locals on our recent trip to New Zealand we joked that we were probably the last two Australians to visit. Some of our closest friends are New Zealanders and most of our Aussie friends have been – either for the snow or the Pinot. We’ve wanted to go … Read more

An Update from the Road – and Sky and Sea

An Update from the Road – and Sky and Sea. Sheep grazing in the Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We thought we owed you an update from the road, an explanation as to why we’ve been slow blogging on Grantourismo lately, before we get back into the swing of things and get up to speed with our posting. Travel writers and bloggers continually complain that one of the biggest challenges is finding balance between … Read more

Buenos Aires Take-Homes: Delicious Dulce de Leche

Dulce de Leche. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

I have a confession: I adore dulce de leche, Argentina’s very special version of milk caramel. And this is really saying something, because I’m not the kind of person who obsesses over chocolate or gets cravings for sugary treats. Another confession: I’ve been known to spend three months in Italy and not lick a single … Read more