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.
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…
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…