It was Tet in Hoi An, Vietnam. Tet or Vietnamese New Year is a great time to visit this charming town and we were feeling good about being here for the celebrations. I was particularly excited about the prospecting of photographing Tet in Hoi An. Because there were midnight fireworks, I had taken my tripod out for … Read more
As you can tell by the dearth of new stories on our site so far this year, we’ve been busy with our ‘day jobs’. As Lara explained in her last post, we had so much writing and photography work that we decided to slow down and stay on in Hanoi in an apartment before exploring … Read more
January 2013 marks the start of our eighth year of continuous travel. It’s a whopping seven whole years to the month that we packed up our Dubai apartment, put everything in storage, and took to the road for what we thought might be a year of travel, bouncing around the planet from one assignment to … Read more
A new year means new starts and time to consider the year that’s passed and plan for the one ahead. Grantourismo in 2012 was a busy year and we always go through a process of looking back and reflecting upon what went well and what didn’t go so great, so we can do things differently … Read more
We thought we owed you an update from the road, an explanation as to why we’ve been slow blogging on Grantourismo lately, before we get back into the swing of things and get up to speed with our posting. Travel writers and bloggers continually complain that one of the biggest challenges is finding balance between … Read more