Yazar: John
John
John has spent the last several years travelling through Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and beyond, trading a desk job for a backpack and a one-way ticket. He writes Travel Route Blog to share the routes, costs and honest mistakes that most guidebooks leave out, from budget breakdowns to the one temple, trail or dish worth rearranging a trip for.
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…
I have carried a camera on every trip I have taken since I was seventeen, and the question I am asked most often by people planning…
Choosing a travel backpack is more consequential than most people realise before they have made a bad choice. The wrong bag — too heavy, badly designed,…
Working while travelling has changed what I need from a laptop entirely. The desktop replacement I used to carry — heavy, powerful, short battery life —…
The eSIM has genuinely changed how I travel. Before it existed, arriving in a new country meant either paying extortionate roaming charges, queuing at an airport…
The single most consistent financial mistake I see travellers make is using a standard bank card abroad and paying foreign transaction fees on every purchase. These…
I have booked accommodation through most of the major platforms over the years, and the honest answer to which is best depends on what you are…
Turkey is one of those countries that keeps confounding your expectations. I first came expecting mosques, bazaars and beaches — and found all three — but…
Everyone who visits Istanbul ends up at the same five-star chains along the Bosphorus. I get it. The view is extraordinary. But on my third trip,…