This is the longest I’ve gone without posting on my poor neglected Cool Travel Guide. You want to know why? Drop by Grantourismo and you’ll see that we’ve been a tad busy on our yearlong grand tour of the world, …
Category Archive: Travel Writing
In print and online
Life has been keeping us busy as usual with our Grantourismo project now well and truly under way; you can keep up with our travels and what we’re doing here. We’ve had a few bits and pieces published in print …
Grantourismo & how we came to be going on a grand tour in 2010
Terence and I have been dreaming about doing a grand tour of sorts for a few years – since way back when we wrote the Grantourismo blog for Charles and Marie. We started to seriously develop the idea of a …
Grantourismo – 12 months, 24 destinations, countless experiences
Finishing writing projects (books, stories, reviews) and planning our exciting new project called Grantourismo, a contemporary grand tour of sorts, has kept us busy throughout December and January, and once again prevented me from updating this poor neglected little blog. …
In print and online
There’s a reason I haven’t been blogging much these last few months – or rather, lots of reasons. Terence and I have been busy travelling, mainly through the Middle East – to Syria, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Lebanon – on …
In print and online
It’s been a busy period for Terence and I, as you’ve gathered from the dearth of blog posts these last months. And we’ve got a lot of travel work being published to prove it, from a small ‘Up Next’ piece …
In print and online
Check out some of our latest travel work In print and online, including a review of Pierre Gagnaire‘s extravagant restaurant Reflet at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City in the latest issue of Gulf Air’s in-flight magazine Gulf Life. You can …
Our latest travel writing: in print and online
As I don’t have time to blog at the moment (read why here), feel free to check out our latest writing in print and online. This month in J Mag, Jazeera Airways’ in-flight magazine, you can read about walking tours …
2 Days in Tropical Darwin: day 1, a taster
Check out our story on Australia’s sultry ‘Top End’ city of Darwin on Viator. We spent a few weeks in this tropical town just before the Wet season started, using it as a base to explore Kakadu, Arnhem Land and …
Our Calabria book hits the shelves!
The first edition of our Calabria guidebook which we wrote for Thomas Cook Publishing is soon to be released. We spent just over a month there last May researching the book and Terence shot the gorgeous images, and we spent …



















