Month: August 2026

Dubrovnik in 3 days: walls, forts and locations

Dubrovnik in 3 days is enough time to do the city properly rather than at the pace the cruise ships set. It was never simply

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Diocletian Palace in Split: a visitor guide

Diocletian Palace is the best preserved Roman palace in the world and, at the same time, the living centre of a modern city. There is

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Split or Zadar: which Dalmatian city

They are an hour and a half apart on the same coast and they attract completely different trips. Split or Zadar is a choice between

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Croatia road trip: from Istria to Dubrovnik

A Croatia road trip is the natural way to see the country, more so than for almost any other Mediterranean destination. The coast runs seventeen

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Plitvice Lakes: trails, tickets and timing

Plitvice Lakes is sixteen terraced lakes linked by waterfalls, crossed by eighteen kilometres of wooden walkway that runs directly over the water. It was Croatia

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Halkidiki: Kassandra, Sithonia and Athos

Three fingers of land reaching into the Aegean below Thessaloniki, each with a completely different character. Halkidiki is one of the most popular summer destinations

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The Albanian Riviera: beaches and prices

The same Ionian sea as Corfu, at roughly half the price, on a coast that had almost no tourism at all thirty years ago. The

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Seville: the Alcazar, flamenco and tapas

The hottest large city in Spain, the birthplace of flamenco, and the holder of a Moorish palace that is still a working royal residence. Seville

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Asturias and Cantabria: green Spain

A coast of cliffs and small beaches, mountains that reach 2,600 metres twenty kilometres inland, and a landscape that is green for the reason all

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