Getting It Right – Selecting the Perfect Holiday Rental

Getting It Right – Selecting the Perfect Holiday Rental

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 – Exploring More Enriching Ways to Travel

Experiential Travel – Exploring More Enriching Ways to Travel. Four Seasons Tented Camp, Golden Triangle, Thailand. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

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

We’re all going on a Grand Tour!

Going on a global grand tour. Canals in Venice, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

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

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