Travel guides, lifestyle tips, and destination inspiration for the modern explorer.
The standard European itinerary packs five cities into ten days. Most people find it exhausting and forgettable. The slow travel movement argues that depth beats breadth – and the economics often work out better too.
Kanazawa has the preserved samurai districts that Kyoto lost to tourism. Naoshima is a small island turned into a living art installation. Yakushima inspired Princess Mononoke. Japan has so much more than the highlights.
The Instagram version is a laptop on a beach. The honest version involves unreliable Wi-Fi, time zone math, complex taxes, and loneliness that travel accounts do not photograph. A real account of two years working remotely abroad.
Business class seats retail for 3000 to 8000 dollars. The business class cabin is rarely full of people who paid that. Here is the miles and points system that gets experienced travelers into premium cabins for almost nothing.
Overtourism has transformed Santorini, Venice, and Barcelona. But Europe is vast and most of it has not been overrun. These are the cities where restaurants are still priced for locals and the neighborhoods still have soul.