Blog Posts
The posts are archived. Mainly from my site “Cool Travel Guide” where I wrote about our travels before 2010 when we started Grantourismo Travels.
Due to the age of these posts, some may be missing images…
Twitter: 50 great travel tweeters
Did you see Donald Strachen’s terrific list of 50 great…
Please don’t tell me this is the future of guidebooks, or, Offbeat Guides part 3: a depressing postcript
Does the world really need travel guides compiled for us…
Offbeat Guides part 2: my conclusions
Outdated, incorrect, misleading, poorly-written and poor choice of points of…
Offbeat Guides part 1: my findings
As the new travel product Offbeat Guides intrigued me and…
How ‘offbeat’ are Offbeat Guides?
Like the notion of offbeat travel the idea of Offbeat…
Offbeat: to be unconventional, original, quirky and weird – and tell a story
So for something to be ‘off·beat’ it has to be…
More reflections on offbeat travel: when the mainstream starts to have kitsch appeal
To continue from my previous post’s reflections on offbeat travel……
What does it mean to be ‘offbeat’ in an age where everyone is so ‘switched on’?
If something is ‘offbeat’, it’s strange, quirky, eccentric, so travel…
Campervanning for Beginners
Going on that great Aussie road trip and planning on…
Victoria’s bushfires one week later: the media’s coverage of Black Saturday
It’s been a week since the bushfires (all 400 of…
Dubai! Dubai! Dubai! Some tales of a city: Part 1 Once upon a time…
At the shared taxi stand in Abu Dhabi – and…
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