Author: John rubber
India resists the kind of tidy summary that works for smaller countries — it is less a single destination than a continent’s worth of distinct regions,…
Germany is the country where I finally stopped treating “which airport” as a single question, because the honest answer depends entirely on which region you’re actually…
A practical comparison of Seoul and Busan, with advice on culture, food, nightlife, beaches, transport, costs, airport planning, and trip-length splits.
China is more than the Great Wall. Explore the lesser-known destinations that reveal the real China, far from the crowds and tourist circuits.
A practical 10-day Cambodia route covering Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Angkor and the southern coast, with realistic transfers, costs and responsible travel advice.
Belgium is the country I recommend to friends who tell me they’re intimidated by trip planning, because getting there is genuinely one of the least stressful…
I spent an embarrassing amount of time before my first Austria trip trying to figure out whether I was overcomplicating something simple. Every forum thread seemed…
I have booked somewhere in the region of four hundred flights over the past fifteen years, which means I have made most of the expensive mistakes…
I used to overpack. Embarrassingly so — a large checked bag for a ten-day trip, half of which came home unworn. The turning point was missing…
I did not buy travel insurance for the first three years I travelled seriously. Nothing bad happened during that period, which I now recognise as luck…