UNESCO Gothic, Calatrava futurism and a city beach in one place: a 2-3 day route, aquarium prices and clear rules for telling real paella from tourist rice.
The world's second-largest building, belle epoque mixed with socialist realism and coffee cheaper than Berlin's. A 2-3 day plan plus Peles Castle in the mountains.
A city where a 5 euro pizza justifies the flight and a second city lies beneath the streets. A 1-3 day route, honest about Da Michele's lines and safety.
For 2-3 nights the hotel almost always wins; from a week the apartment claws it back with the kitchen. Hidden fees, deposits and who fits which format.
From 350 to 1400 euros a week: why the coast beats Barcelona on price, how to lunch for 14 euros, and where train fares double overnight.
From 300 dollars at an all-inclusive to 1500 in Istanbul: a line-by-line weekly budget and where tourists lose the most on lira exchange.
Over a hundred destinations on a biometric passport: how many days Schengen, the Balkans, Asia and the Americas allow, and what the 20-euro ETIAS changes.
A thousand beers, two thousand chocolate shops and the praline invented right here. How to build a four-to-five-day gourmet route through Belgium.
Why shopska salad comes with rakia, where to find fresh banitsa before ten, which grape grows nowhere else on earth, and the three signs of an honest mehana.
Rila Monastery frescoes, Plovdiv's Roman theatre, a royal fortress above the Yantra and two old towns by the sea: how to fit Bulgaria into a week, with an honest downside for each stop.
The dinar cannot leave the country, taxi meters need insisting on, and entry rules have a voucher twist. The practical rules of Tunisia, best sorted before you land.
Tunisian food is genuinely fiery: harissa replaces ketchup here. Six dishes you have to try, with honest pointers on where Tunisians themselves go for them.
Six places in Tunisia worth leaving the sun lounger for: from the ruins of Carthage to the underground homes of Matmata and a night in the Sahara. With a one-week route.
The half of Denmark tourists skip: 128-meter cliffs over turquoise water, a migrating dune, a church buried in sand and the town where LEGO was invented.
Skip Brussels: a Flemish fortress with a wickedly funny audio guide, cliffs over the Meuse, a crusader's castle above the Semois and wild boar to finish.
