Browsing: Hidden Gems
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…
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,…
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…
A natural swimming hole is one of those travel experiences that should not be as good as it is. You are essentially swimming in a river…
Colour in a city is either accidental or deliberate, and the difference matters more than you might expect. Accidental colour, the kind that comes from centuries…
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…
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…
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…