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Spain is one of those countries where most visitors see two cities — Barcelona and Madrid — and leave thinking they have seen Spain. They have…
Mexico City surprised me. I arrived with certain assumptions — the traffic, the safety concerns, the sheer scale of a metropolitan area of twenty-two million people…
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…
Turkey is one of those countries that keeps confounding your expectations. I first came expecting mosques, bazaars and beaches — and found all three — but…
I have visited Rome four times and still feel like I have barely scratched the surface. The city is designed to overwhelm you, and most first-time…
The Amalfi Coast is both one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen and one of the most miserable to visit in the wrong…
Sicily stopped me in my tracks in a way that very few places have. I arrived expecting somewhere like southern Italy but slightly rougher around the…
Most people who visit Portugal spend their entire trip between Lisbon and the Algarve and come home thinking they have seen the country. I did exactly…
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…