Our location independent essentials are the bits and pieces of technology that we take on the road that have enabled us to master the art of location independence over the last four years and will get us through the next 12 months of the global grand tour project we’re embarking on aimed at promoting slow … Read more
Think back to the last time you had to book a holiday rental for a family reunion or choose a resort for your summer getaway. Remember the hours you spent trawling through photos and descriptions on websites? Flicking through the back page ads in stacks of old Conde Nast Travellers? Multiply that by 26 and … Read more
Experiential travel is about exploring more enriching ways to travel for us – it’s about making travel more meaningful and memorable and that’s our mission here on Grantourismo and our focus for the year ahead. Experiential travel is a style of travel we’ve been doing for many years – actively engaging and interacting with locals, and … 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