It’s been our best year yet on Grantourismo with more and more readers visiting every day. As it’s our birthday month – Grantourismo has turned six! – we thought we’d celebrate a fantastic year for the site and reflect upon the stories you read on Grantourismo in 2015. Ironically, 2015 has been the best year yet for Grantourismo since … Read more
What an exhausting year it’s been! I’m somewhat relieved it’s over. It was twelve months of travel highs and personal lows. But let’s focus on the 2015 highlights. Wow. Professionally, 2015 was generally a fantastic and fruitful year for this writer-photographer couple, despite some personal challenges and the tragic events around the world, particularly in places … Read more
Christmas is almost upon us and in the spirit of goodwill we’ll be hosting a month of Christmas giveaways donated by some of our favourite travel, food and publishing friends. I’m also doing some online shopping and compiling a guide to gifts that give. I can’t believe it’s December already. I honestly don’t know where the year … Read more
It’s been three long years since we last ate our way around Australia so intensively and on this return trip we noticed stark differences in the culinary landscape in the Great Southern Land. Here’s our report on the state of dining out in Australia. We just spent two months bouncing around Australia on assignments for … Read more
I have a soft spot for the ferry. Whenever we travel I look for routes and seek out ferries as an alternative to trains and planes. Few forms of transport epitomise slow travel as much as the ferry. Last week we were on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula on the southern coast of Victoria, Australia, watching the … Read more