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…

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Trip Base travel awards

ByLara DunstonAug 4, 2009

The nice people at Trip Base recently gave me a little award – well, I was a finalist in their Best Travel Guides category – and I was so busy…

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Where to next?

ByLara DunstonAug 4, 2009

Well, we’re off again. And yet it seems like we’d only just arrived. After five taxing days of sleeping and eating in Barcelona, and before that seven grueling weeks working…

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More on Mallorca… another day

ByLara DunstonAug 3, 2009

My scheduled posts on Mallorca didn’t go up as hoped, so I’m going to save my best boutique hotels and best restaurant lists for another day, as I have some…

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Mallorca’s most appealling beaches, part 2

ByLara DunstonAug 1, 2009

And here are some more of Mallorca’s most stunning beaches (my favorites anyway), where you can soak up some sun, work on that tan, and have a wade in the…

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Mallorca’s most appealling beaches, part 1

ByLara DunstonAug 1, 2009

Mallorca became one of Europe’s most popular summer destinations for a reason. There’s no denying the island boasts stunning beaches. Unless you have a boat, though, it’s impossible to escape…

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Musings on Mallorca: part 3

ByLara DunstonJul 31, 2009

Of course experiencing local culture is not high on every traveller’s list of priorities – as we were often reminded in Mallorca. Some people simply want to lie in the…

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Musings on Mallorca: part 2

ByLara DunstonJul 31, 2009

So what did we not enjoy about Mallorca? Well, Mallorca is not for everyone. Sure, that could be said about a lot of places, but there are some destinations that…

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Musings on Mallorca: part 1

ByLara DunstonJul 31, 2009

We’ve finished our work on Mallorca – Terence shooting photos for three books, and me updating a travel guidebook. It was nearly seven weeks in total, and by the end…

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Snapshots from Mallorca: silly inflatables

ByLara DunstonJul 15, 2009

As we travelled around Mallorca over the last (gulp) six weeks (a long time to spend on the one island), we spent a lot of time visiting Mallorca’s beaches -…

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Snapshots from Mallorca: deckchairs and roundabouts

ByLara DunstonJul 12, 2009

As we’ve spent a long time living in the Gulf we’ve seen a lot of kooky round- abouts. Al Ain in the UAE probably wins the prize for kitschiest with…

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Snapshots from Mallorca: surprising signs

ByLara DunstonJul 11, 2009

I love shooting signs on our travels. They reveal so much about a place, its culture, norms, codes of conduct and acceptable behaviour – all of which can often be…

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Postcard from Mallorca: savouring sunsets

ByLara DunstonJul 9, 2009

Can you ever get enough sunsets? I can’t. And it seems people in Mallorca can’t either. We spent a couple of nights at Port de Soller (from where we could…