Lara Dunston 
During our time at the Dana Biosphere Reserve in Jordan, we drank a lot of tea. Served milky in the morning, whether offered at Feynan Eco-Lodge or in a Bedouin tent, each successive glass contained less milk until it was strong and black by the end of the day. Served with sugar and sage, thyme or … Read more
Our drive to remote Feynan Eco-Lodge, Jordan’s first eco-accommodation, took us south of Ma’in Hot Springs on the Dead Sea to the Aqaba Highway and on to the dramatic, pristine Dana Biosphere. We stopped along the way to take photos of the glassy water of the Dead Sea, emerald green in the shallows, and the … Read more
Wild Jordan, A Green Journey Through the Desert Kingdom was the title I gave to a magazine story I wrote on our road trip through the kingdom to experience Jordan’s new eco-friendly accommodation, green initiatives, and nature-based activities. Although we did the trip before we launched Grantourismo, we’re sharing it here as it epitomises how … Read more
There’s no denying the Grand Tour was partly a summer holiday, the grand tourists leaving England, and later America, to travel to The Continent, invariably crossing the Alps to spend some months in the sunshine in Italy – under a parasol of course. But the Grand Tour was about so much more than lazing among … Read more
We’ve spent well over a thousand nights in hotels in the last four years we’ve been on the road. Every chance we’ve had we’ve opted to check into apartment rentals and holiday homes instead. Now we’re going to be doing that for a year, on our grand tour of the world. If we’ve been researching … Read more