About Us

Welcome to our travel blog and resource for independently minded global travellers.

Graham GlobalGrasshopper Becky GlobalGrasshopper All our writers love to travel, conveniently a few of us love photography and one of us loves designing websites. At GlobalGrasshopper we like independent travel, discovering places away from the usual tourist haunts, quirky hotels and beautiful photos and this website is the product of all our favourite things. We just hope you enjoy it as much as we do…

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Several of our writers are available for freelance writing work and we also offer a variety of advertising packages. Why advertise with us?

We get an average of 6,000 page views a day
We have an Alexa Traffic Rank of under 85,000
A Compete Rank of under 250,000
Google Page Rank 4
We are currently ranked 30th of all travel blogs in the world on the Invesp list.
We rank No.1 in Google for many competitive travel related keywords including hotel, Top 10 and ‘places to visit’ keywords.

We have also had many mentions from respected websites:

Chosen as one of the Top 10 Travel Bloggers by Hotels4u.com
Voted by readers of GotSaga.com as Europe’s 3rd best travel blog
Ranked 5th best blog with travel tips also by GotSaga
One of WebUpon’s 15 Useful and Awesome websites that will improve your life
Mentioned by Travelsupermarket.com as a Useful and Informative Travel Resource
Selected by TravelInsurance.org as one of the 51 Fantastic European Travel Blogs
Chosen CollegeScholarships.org as one of the 150 travel blogs for Students
Won Iglu travel awards 2011 for the best travel stories.

We’ve had work published on top travel sites including Matador, Bootsnall, Nomadic Matt, Travel Blissful, Go Green Travel Green, Gowalla, Glenfiddich Explorers and had mentions by Lonely Planet, Telegraph Travel, RightMove Overseas and been referenced by Wikipedia.

Please contact Graham or Becky (GlobalGrasshopper’s owners) for further details.

We are also proud to announce we now also have launched Design Grasshopper to meet all your web design, SEO website design, graphic design and branding needs.

Meet the team: