Year: 2026

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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Sound of Music locations in Salzburg

The Sound of Music locations are scattered across Salzburg and the lakes east of it, and the strangest thing about visiting them is that the

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Transfagarasan: driving Romania best road

The Transfagarasan is ninety kilometres of road across the highest mountains in Romania, built for reasons that had nothing to do with driving pleasure and

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