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.
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…
Train travel is the only form of long-distance transport that puts you inside the landscape rather than above it. The view from a train window has…
Some places are changing faster than the travel industry is acknowledging. The landscapes and ecosystems that appear on every bucket list are not static. They are…
There is a category of travel destination that has earned its reputation so thoroughly that the reputation has become a liability. The over-hyped place that everyone…
Cheap flights are not found by luck. They are found by understanding how airline pricing works and using that understanding systematically. I have been flying on…
Solo travel is the most effective way to travel and also the most intimidating for first-timers. Effective because it forces a level of engagement with a…
I packed my first trip with a checked bag so heavy the airline charged me extra, wore half the clothes once, and spent most of the…
Most people assume Everest Base Camp is for serious mountaineers only. It is not. The trek to Base Camp at 5,364 metres is a long, cold,…
Patagonia sits at the far end of the world, and it feels like it. The wind is relentless, the weather changes every fifteen minutes, and the…