Author: John rubber
Switzerland has hiking for everyone, which sounds like marketing language but is genuinely true. The trail network is marked at five difficulty levels and the infrastructure…
The Swiss rail network is one of the engineering achievements of the modern world, and I do not mean that in a boring infrastructure kind of…
Both Zermatt and Grindelwald promise the Swiss Alps at their most dramatic and deliver on that promise in completely different ways. Zermatt has the Matterhorn, which…
Copenhagen took me by surprise in a way that most European capitals no longer do. I arrived expecting something polished and slightly worthy, a clean Scandinavian…
The question of what to eat in Copenhagen is more interesting than it sounds. The city has accumulated an outsized global reputation for its restaurants, some…
Denmark is expensive. I want to be direct about this because the standard travel writing approach of hedging the cost question with phrases like relatively affordable…
The Faroe Islands versus Iceland comparison comes up constantly in travel planning circles and the two destinations are genuinely different in ways that make the choice…
Two weeks in Costa Rica sounds like a lot until you look at a map and realise that the country has two completely different coastlines, a…
Costa Rica has two coastlines and most visitors end up on the same three or four beaches on the Pacific side that every travel blog recommends.…
Monteverde Cloud Forest is one of the most famous nature destinations in Central America and one of the few places that consistently delivers exactly what its…