If you are gearing up for a European summer, you already know the drill. You want to spend your days eating incredible food, wandering ancient streets, and soaking up the culture—not nervously clutching your backpack or constantly looking over your shoulder. These rankings come directly from travelers using our Safety Index. While every single city …
Barcelona may still be at the top of the list of basically every Spain-bound tourist out there, with its world-famous Gaudí-designed Sagrada Família and Barceloneta beach drawing in tens of millions of visitors every year… but it’s sort of starting to lose its luster a bit, right? Don’t get us wrong, Barcelona’s absolutely epic, but …
Year in, year out, I watch people flock to the same three or four Mediterranean islands, either because they’ve got a thing for white parties and bottle service, or they just don’t know any better. Not to be patronizing, but I mean, if I were a casual visitor to Europe myself and didn’t, ahem, live …
Has everyone been blissfully sleeping on Croatia’s top hidden gem all along? The travel blogosphere went into a frenzy earlier this year when United confirmed they’d be finally launching nonstop Transatlantic flights from their Newark hub to Split, the top coastal destination in the Adriatic nation right now. Split is home to the UNESCO-protected Diocletian’s …
If you’re heading to Europe in the coming months, chances are it’s places like Amalfi, in Southern Italy, Santorini, the iconic caldera-island of Greece, or France’s glitzy and glamorous St Tropez that are on your radar. We don’t blame you. They’re the ones travel influencers flog to death year in, year out, and where most …
If you’re planning a little Greek island-hopping adventure this summer, chances are it’s the whitewashed towns perched atop vertiginous coastal cliffs, and the shiny, freshly-painted blue church domes you’re fantasizing about. For lack of better words, chances are it’s the ‘Santorini vibe’ you’re looking for. You probably know at this point Santorini is crowded, expensive, …
Nothing quite compares to munching a fresh-out-of-the-oven pastel de nata while strolling along the River Tagus, with views of Lisbon’s pastel-tinted, castle-studded skyline in the distance… but if your heart is set on Portugal this summer, you should brace yourself for some serious border hiccups. Europe’s new Entry/Exit System is now operating in full swing, …
Love it or hate it, Paris is without question one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Trust me, I’ve been living here for 5+ years now, and I’m yet to run out of breathtaking sights and flowery cafés to discover. There’s just one major downside—other than dealing with the hellish French bureaucracy and …
When you think of Europe, chances are it’s places like Rome, with its imposing Colosseum and open-air museum of a Historic Center, or Paris, with the Haussmann-designed, grid-like cityscape, and soaring Eiffel that come to mind. I live in Paris myself, and I go to Rome at least twice a year, so don’t get me …
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 …
Forget the Amalfi Coast and the $400-a-night villas, Mallorca with the distasteful Brit-led stag dos, and Mykonos’ surging cruising hordes—now with Emily i̶n̶ ̶P̶a̶r̶i̶s̶ in Greece approaching, to say that godforsaken island is crowded would be an understatement. Mediterranean summers are all about kicking it back on a pebbly beach, admiring the views of a …
7-some years of traveling to Greece, and my Greek is still at an elementary level. I can get by with my rehearsed souvlaki orders, and your usual ‘hellos’, ‘pleases’, ‘thank yous’, but don’t honk at me and throw at me a malaka if I’m driving really carefully along the unprotected cliffside road. I won’t be …