Not Paris and its hordes of Eiffel Tower scammers. Not Rome with the jam-packed Historic Center and ornate fountains behind paywalls. Definitely not Barcelona. If their menacing graffiti is anything to go by, Catalans don’t even want you in their city, to begin with. Europe’s fastest-growing destination right now is a picture-perfect capital that never …

Flying to Europe last minute and got stuck between a rock and a hard place with the crazy prices? Unless you’ve got a fixed itinerary set in stone, and seeing the Eiffel Tower sparkle at midnight or exploring the ancient ruins of Rome are absolute non-negotiables, maybe you should give Europe’s usual tourism hotspots a …

Only a few months after one of Europe’s longest rail journeys was announced, linking three of Central Europe’s most beautiful countries, Leo Express has already made it even better. The operator has just added brand-new couchette carriages to what was previously an all-seated overnight train. In other words? No more trying to survive an overnight …

Is it just us, or has the medieval city surrounded by ancient walls archetype been effectively co-opted by Dubrovnik lately? You’ve got Instagrammers to thank for that, and of course, a certain HBO blockbuster series that keeps on milking the hype years after it wrapped up. As much as we love those teal Mediterranean waters, …

Keen on avoiding Europe’s airport chaos this summer? Between the long snaking lines as a result of the newly-launched EES system, and the crazy Ryanair rules that just make no sense—what do you mean I have to pay 50 bucks on the spot because an inch of my luggage wheels sticks out of the—we wouldn’t …

Let’s cut right to the chase: yeah, that headline is a bold claim. Visiting 100+ medieval European towns takes years of obsessive travel, and a borderline-nerdy passion for Gothic history that’d make most big-brained Oxford scholars jealous. I’m no prof, but I’ve always loved getting lost in the shadowy alleys of a 15th-century walled town. …

Having traveled extensively in the former Soviet World myself, I’ve said numerous times on here that Eastern Europe is the most underrated region on the planet, and I stand by it. The hearty, unashamedly meat-heavy cuisine that would send your average vegan Valley girl into a tailspin, the crowd-free towns yet to hit your typical …

Europe is every culture buff’s playground, but let’s be real for sec, most people only ever scratch the surface of the continent’s surprising diversity. I live in Paris myself—coming off an on-and-off love-hate relationship with my former home of London—and while both of these hugely-popular cities are just downright gorgeous, they’re far from being representative …

Western Europe and its sky-high prices, jam-packed monuments, and subpar security levels no longer fool anybody, and though we called it ourselves several years ago, now KAYAK has given us the confirmation we needed. The popular travel search engine has just unveiled its latest Trop Trending Destinations list for the upcoming year, and shockingly enough, …

Europe’s Railway Renaissance keeps charging ahead in full speed, and after other recent excitement announcements, from a new scenic route traveling from Paris all the way to the Amalfi Coast, to a sleeper connecting Switzerland to Scandinavia, there’s now more to look forward to: From next month, an overnight train traveling through a handful of …

Some digital nomads go to Spain for the warm weather, others choose to settle in Portugal, drawn to their slower-paced lifestyle, and there’s always the odd oenophile who can’t stay away from Italy for long—but there’s one particular category of expat that has their eyes set on Czechia. A small European country best known for …

Here we are again, for yet another chapter of Europe’s fast-spreading Railway Renaissance. Over the last couple of years, numerous new train routes have launched across the pond connecting a spate of unexpected destinations: for instance, we’ve had a new night train from Brussels all the way to Venice, the first-ever direct Paris–Berlin, and soon …