A few weeks before I stood on the banks of the Moselle in Schengen, I'd just obtained my three-year multi-entry Schengen visa. So visiting the actual village that gave that visa its name felt a little surreal, like meeting the place a word comes from. I went in...
I had one spare day at the end of my time in Copenhagen, and I spent a stupid amount of it just staring at the departures board at the central station, trying to decide. That's the thing about Copenhagen that nobody quite prepares you for: it isn't only a great city,...
Stuttgart is the city that gave the world the car, and the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums alone pull in petrolheads from everywhere. But write it off as a one-trick automotive town and you miss the rest of it: a postmodern art gallery with a room the artist...
Most people visit Gori for one reason: it's where Stalin was born. My boyfriend and I were no different. Back in August 2024, we took the train out from Tbilisi specifically for the Stalin Museum, half-expecting a quick in-and-out before heading back the same evening....
Here's something I love about Vienna: you can wake up in the Austrian capital, eat breakfast, and be standing in a different country before lunch - without ever renting a car. Two countries, a UNESCO river valley, an imperial spa town, and a fortress on a hill are all...
I was standing on Koa Avenue at 7:15 in the morning, fifteen minutes early, as the booking said, watching a cluster of vans and minibusses fill with confused tourists. Nobody could confirm our booking. One driver told us to look for an operator called "All-Star," so...
Here's what surprised me most about O'ahu: it's incredibly well organized. My boyfriend and I didn't rent a car for our stay in Hawaii, and we never once felt stuck. Without a car, you can reach basically every point on the island by TheBus — the schedules are...
Hawaii was the dream stop. When my boyfriend and I were planning the back half of our two-week Mexico–US trip, we knew San Francisco was happening, and then it came down to one choice: Las Vegas or Honolulu. We checked the numbers, and Hawaii was clearly the more...
Waikiki is the Hawaii most people picture before they've ever been: the long curve of beach, the surfers, the high-rises right up against the sand, and a sunset that genuinely lives up to the hype. My boyfriend and I based ourselves here for the Hawaii leg of our...