Month: August 2026

Saaremaa: a guide to Estonia largest island

Saaremaa is the largest Estonian island and one of the least visited places in the Baltic region, which is entirely a matter of history rather

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Vis island: closed to the world for forty years

Vis island sits further out to sea than any other inhabited Croatian island, and for forty years it was closed to foreigners entirely. That accident

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Kotor Bay: Kotor, Perast and Herceg Novi

Kotor Bay is usually described as the southernmost fjord in Europe, which is geologically wrong and visually forgivable. It is a drowned river canyon, a

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Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj: the complete guide

Lake Bled is the postcard: a small lake with an island in the middle carrying a white church, a castle on a cliff a hundred

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Ljubljana in two days: the green capital

Ljubljana is the smallest capital most people never think of visiting, and the one that most consistently surprises those who do. It has no single

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Tallinn: a guide to the medieval old town

Tallinn holds a contrast almost nowhere else manages: a Hanseatic walled town preserved nearly intact, inside a country that has been running its elections, taxes

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Kazimierz: the Jewish quarter of Krakow

Kazimierz is the district of Krakow where several centuries sit on top of each other without resolving into anything tidy. It was a royal town

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Game of Thrones filming locations you can visit

The Game of Thrones filming locations that people actually travel for come down to two places at opposite ends of Europe: Dubrovnik, which supplied the

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Harry Potter filming locations in Britain

Harry Potter filming locations fall into three categories that are constantly confused: places genuinely filmed on site, places built entirely in a studio, and places

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