Browsing: Europe
Switzerland has hiking for everyone, which sounds like marketing language but is genuinely true. The trail network is marked at five difficulty levels and the infrastructure…
The Swiss rail network is one of the engineering achievements of the modern world, and I do not mean that in a boring infrastructure kind of…
Both Zermatt and Grindelwald promise the Swiss Alps at their most dramatic and deliver on that promise in completely different ways. Zermatt has the Matterhorn, which…
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 Faroe Islands versus Iceland comparison comes up constantly in travel planning circles and the two destinations are genuinely different in ways that make the choice…
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…
Europe’s waterfalls are among its least-marketed natural assets. Most visitors come for the cities, the coast, the mountains — and entirely miss the waterfalls hidden in…