One of the goals of our yearlong grand tour of the world, in which we’ll focus on slow, local and experiential travel, will be to gather knowledge and experiences — an essential ingredient of the traditional grand tour. My focus will be culinary and learning about local cuisines in The Dish. Deconstructing The Dish: Cooking the Quintessential Plates … 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
New Year’s Day is loaded with symbolism, fresh starts and new beginnings. It’s the first day of a 365-day narrative that will form another chapter in our lives. It’s also a perfect time to launch our new website Grantourismo and our first Grantourismo project, a yearlong global grand tour dedicated to slow travel, local travel … Read more