Author: John rubber
Norway without a car sounds like a significant disadvantage. The country is long and its most famous landscapes are spread across hundreds of kilometres of fjord…
Greece has more than two hundred inhabited islands and most of the visitors to the country end up on the same five. I understand why. Santorini…
This question comes up on every Greece travel forum and it generates strong opinions. People who loved Santorini defend it fiercely. People who loved Mykonos do…
Athens has a reputation problem. Too hot, too noisy, too polluted, too much a city to be interesting when there are islands an hour away. I…
Crete is the largest Greek island and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean, and most of its three million annual visitors see roughly the same forty…
London is one of the best cities in the world for day trips by train, and most visitors to the UK do not know half of…
The Scottish Highlands are one of the last genuinely wild places in Europe. The numbers bear this out: the entire Highlands contain fewer people per square…
The Cotswolds has a reputation for being either the most beautiful rural landscape in England or an outdoor museum of honey-stone villages preserved for wealthy second-home…
London is one of the most visited cities in the world and most of its visitors see roughly the same square kilometre of it: the area…
Switzerland is expensive. There is no point pretending otherwise. A coffee in Zurich costs more than lunch in Lisbon. A night in a mid-range hotel in…