Month: August 2026

Northern lights in Iceland: when and where

Seeing the northern lights in Iceland is a game of probability rather than luck, and the difference between people who see them and people who

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Iceland Ring Road: a ten day itinerary

The Iceland Ring Road is the single best road trip in Europe and one of the easiest to plan, because there is only one road

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The Baltic states in one week: a full itinerary

The Baltic states are the most efficient combination of sovereign countries in Europe: three capitals, three languages, three quite different histories, and six hundred kilometres

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Tourist traps in Europe and how to avoid them

Tourist traps work the same way in Lisbon, Prague and Athens, which is convenient: learn the pattern once and it transfers to any city you

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eSIM Europe: staying online without the bill

An eSIM Europe package is the answer to a problem that, for most of the continent, no longer exists. Inside the European Union your phone

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Flight delay compensation: your rights in the EU

Flight delay compensation in Europe is one of the strongest consumer protections anywhere in the world, and most passengers who are entitled to it never

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Wroclaw: the city of bridges and bronze dwarfs

Wroclaw is the fourth largest city in Poland, has one of the finest medieval squares in Central Europe, more bridges than Venice, and roughly a

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Gjirokaster: the stone city of Albania

Gjirokaster is one of the best preserved Ottoman towns anywhere in the Balkans, built up a steep slope above the Drino valley in southern Albania.

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Berat: the Albanian town of a thousand windows

Berat is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in Europe, with a history running back roughly two thousand four hundred years, and it is

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