Author: John rubber
The rental car question in Costa Rica is the one that comes up in every travel planning conversation about the country and the answer is not…
Machu Picchu is one of those places where the photographs prepare you for something extraordinary and the reality still exceeds them. I arrived at the Sun…
Most people who visit Peru see Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. That circuit is extraordinary and entirely worth doing. It is also about five…
I landed in Cusco on a clear afternoon, walked up the stairs from the baggage hall to the taxi rank, and by the time I reached…
The Amazon basin covers sixty percent of Peru and most of the country’s visitors see none of it. The decision to include the jungle in a…
The most beautiful small towns in Europe are not always the ones with the most Instagram posts. Some of the places on the standard lists are…
A natural swimming hole is one of those travel experiences that should not be as good as it is. You are essentially swimming in a river…
Colour in a city is either accidental or deliberate, and the difference matters more than you might expect. Accidental colour, the kind that comes from centuries…
Europe’s beaches have a timing problem. The ones that appear on every best beach list are genuinely beautiful and genuinely overrun from June to August. Finding…
Travel bucket lists have a quality problem. Most of them are lists of places rather than experiences, and seeing a place and having an experience in…