Still think Ryanair or easyJet are your best pals when it comes to exploring Europe for cheap? Wait until you hear about this alternative that’s been widely rightly dubbed the easyJet of the railways: GoVolta is a Dutch train startup that’s just launched across the continent, and they’re bowing in with not one, but two …

When you think of France, I bet it’s probably places like Paris, Nice, Lyon, Marseille that come to mind. The touristy quartet, and hey, no shame in loving them, by the way: I’m a proud adopted Parisian myself. What can start getting on your nerves, however, especially if you’re here in the frog-eating heartland for …

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. …

Vespa rides into blood-orange sunsets, soft pistacchio gelato on the stone pier, as you watch the ebb and flow of swimmers and boats along the marina, the incessant chant of cicadas up the olive tree hills… Say what you will, other poor excuses of seas can’t hold a candle to the Mediterranean. I’m not talking …

Is it just me, or has all this talk of “hidden gems” and “undiscovered spots” become a bit too… trivial, if not outright nonsensical? Whether they’re doing it for the Instagram algorithm or simply because they’re clueless enough to think an extremely popular European city that’s been flogged to death can still fit that criteria, …

I’ve been living in Paris for the past half-decade, and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve cringed internally eavesdropping on tourists at dinner table convos in Montmartre bistrots. Usually it involves a dramatic retelling of their exciting “first day” in “Europe,” how the Mowna Lisaah is indeed small and unimpressive in real …

If you think of fairytale castles, cobblestone towns frozen in time, and picturesque plazas lined with cafés, chances are you’re imagining Western Europe. As much as security has taken a turn for the worse in recent years—especially compared to the Eastern front—there’s no denying the West is absolutely stunning: from the canal-crisscrossed cities in the …

You know what they say: the longer you stick around somewhere, no matter if it seems to have come straight out of a fairytale, you start taking things for granted. Unlike most people, who save up for years to come to Europe on a two-week summer trip every once in a while, I live right …

Look, I’ve been living in Paris for the past five years, and after half a decade of wrestling with prefecture bureaucracy and enduring the passive-aggressive antics of boulangers in the 15th, I’ve had pleeenty of time to fall in love with France, grow to hate it, and then fall in love with it all over …

Forget Punta Cana and its overdeveloped resort zones, Jamaica and the hardly authentic tourist traps, Cozumel’s cruise-dominated shores: If you’re up to here with the overcrowded Caribbean clichés, and you’re keen to experience the quieter end of the Caribbean this year, this is where you should go instead: A quaint, butterfly-shaped island in the Eastern …

If you’ve never been to Rome yourself, and a trip to Europe is in the cards for 2026, chances are you’re eyeing a visit to the Eternal City, and we’re definitely not here to discourage you, or downplay Rome’s importance: We could write at length about its world-class museums, ancient wonders, and unrivaled food scene. …

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 …