Price Check: a Siem Reap Shopping List

Price Check: a Siem Reap Shopping List. Angkor Beer, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Having settled into Siem Reap where we’ve established a home, we’ve become familiar with what things cost in Cambodia and thought it was time to share a Siem Reap shopping list for our Price Check series, just in case you’re planning to settle in for a while when you venture here. In short: shopping here is inexpensive … Read more

Price Check: a Sydney Shopping List

Price Check: a Sydney Shopping List. B.B.Q. King, Chinese BBQ Restaurant, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

After posting our guide to experiencing Sydney on a Budget and our apartment reviews, it seemed like a good time to do our Price Check: a Sydney Shopping List for you. Despite spending a great deal of time in Australia over the last 12 months, we still had trouble getting used to how expensive the … Read more

Bangkok Shopping List – what things cost in Bangkok

Price Check: a Bangkok Shopping List. Singha beer and street food, Bangkok. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Bangkok is a fun place to shop. For most visitors that means buying cheap hippy clothes and skimpy stuff for the beach holiday they’re about to have on a Thai island or a resort on the coast. And then buying even more revealing gear once they’re back in Bangkok before they fly home to show … Read more

Tips to Saving Money When Self-Catering

Tips to Saving Money When Self-Catering. Côte de Bœuf, Paris, France. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

In our last post on What Things Cost Around the World, we compared the dockets of our Price Check shopping lists from some 24 destinations we stayed at around the world on our yearlong grand tour. Our goal was to give self-catering travellers who like settling into places for a while an idea of what … Read more

Price Check: What Things Cost Around the World

Price Check: What Things Cost Around the World. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Aimed at helping travellers staying in holiday rentals and settling into a place for a while, Price Check is a series of posts in which we reported every two weeks on the prices of groceries at each destination we stayed on our yearlong grand tour. This post is a comparison of our Price Check posts, … Read more