Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

Goodbye Hotel Fatigue, Hello Holiday Homes!

Having spent thousands of nights in hotels, travel writers Lara Dunston & Terence Carter are opting for slow travel and holiday homes instead. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

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

Join Us On a Grand Tour Devoted to Slow, Local and Experiential Travel

Grantourismo Travels Grand Tour. Sunset over the Bosphorus River, Istanbul, Turkey. Copyright 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

New Year’s Day is loaded with symbolism, fresh starts and new beginnings. It’s the first day of a 365-day narrative that will form another chapter in our lives. It’s also a perfect time to launch our new website Grantourismo and our first Grantourismo project, a yearlong global grand tour dedicated to slow travel, local travel … Read more