Best Parks and Gardens in the World to Spread Your Picnic Blanket

Best Parks and Gardens in the World to Spread Your Picnic Blanket. Relaxing in spring, Paris, France. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

This little guide to the best parks and gardens in the world has been coming for some time. These days I find myself spending a significant amount of time dreaming of spreading a picnic blanket out on manicured grass between a shady tree and sprawling out with little more than a good book, bowl of … Read more

James M White, the Man Behind The Broken Spoke, Austin

James M White, the Man Behind The Broken Spoke, Austin Texas, USA. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

When we first met James M White, the owner of The Broken Spoke in Austin, we knew we had to interview the guy. James is just as much of a legend as his legendary honky tonk dance hall. Not only is The Broken Spoke the oldest and most famous honky tonk joint still in operation, … Read more

Learning the Texas Two Step at an Austin Honky Tonk

Learning the Texas Two Step at the Broken Spoke, Austin, Texas, USA. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We didn’t need much encouragement to get us to The Broken Spoke, Austin’s famous honky tonk country dance hall. Getting me on the dance floor for some Texas Two Step, however, was another thing, and involved a bit of trickery on the part of Rusty Irons, who had brought us here. It’s not that I … Read more

Only in Austin: a Country Music Cooking Lesson

Central Market’s ‘Cookin’ and Singin’ Class with Brandon Rhyder. Austin, Texas, USA. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved. Country Music Cooking Lesson.

Cooking, music, film, film and music, food and film… so far, we’ve done it all in Austin. We learned to barbecue, we met local musicians, we’ve seen lots of music, we’ve talked music with a record storeowner, and we’ve talked music with a filmmaker… So why not have a country music cooking lesson with a … Read more

Amy Cook and Alejandro Escovedo at the Cactus Cafe, Austin

Amy Cook and Alejandro Escovedo at the Cactus Cafe, Austin, Texas, USA. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

When we met Austin musicians Suzanna Choffel and Dan Dyer, and Dan’s girlfriend-cum-manager Mahshad Vakili (pictured here singing and dancing), Mahshad said she would keep us informed and let us know if there were any good gigs we should see while we’re in Austin. Well, we did a pretty good job of getting ourselves out … Read more