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…
Top 10 dream tours
I’m not a fan of guided tours as you know,…
Top 5 indigenous cultural tours in Western Australia
Some of the best guided walks I’ve ever done have…
Guides: a model guide from the Mulgana mob at Monkey Mia
For all my criticism of guides, there have been some…
Guides: how to pick them
If you must hire a guide (well, you know how…
Good guides, bad guides: the good guides
While most of our experiences with guides have been terrible…
Good guides, bad guides: the bad guides
There are good guides and there are bad guides. We’ve…
cool travel tips: an explanation
When interviewed for Instant Native recently I was asked for…
cool travel tip #1: learn the 10 language basics on the plane
COOL TRAVEL TIP #1: learn the ten language basics of…
Top 5 destination essentials
So, you’re going away and you’re going it alone? I’ve…
Dead Cities: reading the signs
In case you needed further evidence as to why you…
5 good reasons not to use a guide
I’ve been getting asked for recommendations for guides recently, not…
Fraud or flawed?
Thomas Kohnstamm’s book Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? was…