Over the last year, as part of our quest to get beneath the skin of the places we’re staying in, we’ve been exploring the best ways to explore places. We’ve got two main interests when we do this… Firstly, we’re looking for things travellers can do to kick-start their stay in a place, experiences and … Read more
We’re bringing our latest edition in our Price Check series* to you from Poland with our Krakow shopping list, which has been a fun one to research. This is our Price Check Kraków to give you an idea of what things cost in this beautiful Polish city. We were last in Krakow four years ago … Read more
The duration of most of our stays on this yearlong global grand tour have been two weeks. Apart from our pre-departure preparations for Grantourismo and a pre-launch sunset soiree in Dubai and the days leading up to our launch party in London, only on two occasions on the trip have we stayed in places for only … Read more
In the streets surrounding our apartment in the Fifth District in Vienna, and across the Linke Wienzeile, the street that runs parallel to the Naschmarkt, in the neighbouring Sixth District, there are literally dozens of vintage clothes, design, and furniture shops. This part of Vienna is retro heaven if you’re a lover of all things … Read more
Having lived in the Middle East for so long and traveled widely and written about the food, we have to admit that we consider ourselves to be something of connoisseurs of Middle Eastern cuisines – often very mistakenly reduced to just being called ‘Lebanese food’. We love a great hummus and nobody does it better … Read more