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
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