World Wildlife Day is a global observance day designated by the UN as a day dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants on the brink of extinction. This year’s theme is Big Cats: Predators Under Threat but all the...
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My family Russian recipes make an appearance every January when Terence and I can often be found in the kitchen rolling out dough for Russian dumplings and making baboushka’s pink beetroot potato, while I recollect the summer holiday family feasts of my childhood, and miss...
Yogyakarta was the breath of fresh air and the change in scenery that I didn’t know I needed until we got there. The reasons I became beguiled by Yogyakarta are the reasons why you need to get to this intriguing Javanese city soon. Yogyakarta is...
Things we hate about cookbooks include everything from missing recipes and no recipe list to cookbooks that have obviously not been well researched or, at worst, haven’t had their recipes tested. We love cookbooks. As much as it’s convenient to pull up a recipe on an...
How we created a life filled with travel is something we’re continually asked. As last year was our 18th year living abroad and we’re celebrating a few more milestones, we thought it time to share our epic journey (so far), some lessons learnt, mistakes made,...
Should selfie sticks be banned from Angkor Wat? What do you think? We think they should be banned in precious heritage sites and there’s never been a greater urgency to ban them at Angkor Wat and the other Angkor Archaeological Park temples. Or has there?...
2016 in review: a year fraught by human tragedies, natural disasters, political upheavals, and the deaths of beloved music icons David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, and others. A year of more lows than highs. But there were plenty of highs – for us, travel highs,...
The stories you read on Grantourismo in 2016 covered everything from culinary travel to climbing castles. You arrived here having searched for recipes and city guides, and you stayed for our weekend itineraries and journey narratives. This is our annual round up of our most-read posts of...
You may have noticed we’ve been quiet here. Where have we been? Back to Bali for the first time in six years, to Java to discover Yogyakarta and explore sublime Borobudur, then back to Siem Reap to host our writing and photography retreat and culinary tour. Phew....
Avoid over-hyped must-do eateries, and we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t as travel writers. But these over-exposed eateries, whether street food stalls or fine dining restaurants end up being the most disappointing. And nobody wants a bad meal when they travel. Ever...
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,...
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...
