Browsing: Food & Drink
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,…
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…
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,…
The Mediterranean has been drawing people to its islands for three thousand years. The Romans built villas on Capri. The Venetians fortified Corfu. The Phoenicians traded…
Portugal is one of the best road trip destinations in Europe. It is compact enough to cross in four hours but varied enough to sustain three…
Tokyo operates at a frequency that most visitors do not expect. It is the largest city in the world — 37 million people in the greater…
Japan beyond Tokyo is a different country. The shinkansen network means that Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nara, and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail are all within a…
Southern Vietnam moves faster than the north. Ho Chi Minh City (still called Saigon by everyone who lives there) has the energy of a city that…