Our Home Away from Home in Venice

Venice holiday rental palace, Venice, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We’ve become the people we’ve always envied in Venice, sipping glasses of Prosecco at the windows of our Venetian palazzo as we survey the action on the Grand Canal down below. People crammed on the vaporettos that pull up at the wharf in front smile up at us, while tourists cruising by on their gondola … Read more

Venice’s Grand Canal: A Timeless Time-lapse

A timelapse of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We’re in Venice! And our ‘home’ for two weeks is a 17th century palazzo on the Grand Canal. While we normally begin each series of posts on a new place with a review of our latest holiday rental, we couldn’t resist starting Venice with a time-lapse sequence of the spectacular view from our latest digs. … Read more

Train Travel and Taking Time Out for Reflection

Train travel in Italy with TrenItalia, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved. Train Travel and Taking Time Out for Reflection.

Train travel. We’ve always loved it – as much for the opportunities it affords us to sit back and simply reflect, as for the chance to people-watch, as well as take in scenery you don’t get to see from the seat of a car, bus or plane. Train travel is our favourite form of travel in Europe. Train … Read more