Browsing: Europe
Ten days in Portugal sounds generous until you start planning it and realise that the country has about four completely different versions of itself stacked on…
I discovered the Alentejo by accident. I was driving from Lisbon to Evora and took a wrong turn somewhere near Montemor-o-Novo that added forty minutes to…
I arrived in Porto expecting a smaller, quieter version of Lisbon. What I found was a completely different city with its own logic, its own food,…
Norway has more fjords than any map can properly show. The country’s western coastline is so deeply indented that if you straightened it out it would…
The Lofoten Islands sit above the Arctic Circle in a chain of jagged peaks rising directly from the Norwegian Sea. The mountains here do not build…
I have chased the northern lights three times. The first two times I saw nothing, or next to nothing, a faint green smear on the horizon…
Norway without a car sounds like a significant disadvantage. The country is long and its most famous landscapes are spread across hundreds of kilometres of fjord…
This question comes up on every Greece travel forum and it generates strong opinions. People who loved Santorini defend it fiercely. People who loved Mykonos do…
Athens has a reputation problem. Too hot, too noisy, too polluted, too much a city to be interesting when there are islands an hour away. I…
Crete is the largest Greek island and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean, and most of its three million annual visitors see roughly the same forty…