Browsing: City Guide
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,…
London is one of the best cities in the world for day trips by train, and most visitors to the UK do not know half of…
The Cotswolds has a reputation for being either the most beautiful rural landscape in England or an outdoor museum of honey-stone villages preserved for wealthy second-home…
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…
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 most beautiful small towns in Europe are not always the ones with the most Instagram posts. Some of the places on the standard lists are…
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…
Southeast Asia has more islands than any traveller can visit in a lifetime. Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam together have tens of thousands of them,…