‘Grantourismo’ or ‘grand touring’ is the style of travelling we’ve been practicing since January 2006, when, with a slew of guidebooks and travel articles under our belts and a year’s worth of travel writing work lined up, we embarked on a one-year travel experiment. Putting our worldly possessions into storage in Dubai, we took to the road to live out of our suitcases so we could bounce around the planet from project to project. Our aim was to travel the world, find out whether we could make proper careers out of travel writing and photography, whether our marriage could survive the challenges of life on the road, and to write a book about our experiences. Following one-too-many offers that were all too good to refuse - everywhere from Thailand to Buenos Aires - we were still
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