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.
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.
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.
A country where everything is an hour away by train: windmills, tulips, a village with no roads and Europe's boldest architecture. Seven places mapped onto one week.
Over a hundred castles, an ice cave holding 110,000 cubic metres of ice and gorges climbed by ladder. Slovakia's top sights, assembled into a one-week route.
The EU's smallest capital, temples a thousand years older than the pyramids and a neon-blue lagoon. A 5-day Malta route with timing and honest advice.
Two-thousand-year-old mosaics, a capital sliced by a UN buffer zone, snow on a palm-tree island and flamingos by the airport: how to get more out of Cyprus than a sunbed and turquoise water.
Jemaa el-Fnaa, nine thousand lanes of Fes, blue Chefchaouen and a night in the Sahara dunes: how to link them into one route, how many days you really need and when Morocco does not turn into an oven.
The Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the golden Dome of the Rock and the Via Dolorosa within a ten minute walk of one another: what to see in Jerusalem, the rules at the holy sites, and an honest word on safety.
Ten genuinely beautiful cities in Europe, each with its own hook and an honest downside: when to go to dodge the crowds and heat, and how to reach them from Ukraine with no direct flights.
The Prado with its free hours, the Royal Palace, the Temple of Debod at sunset, Retiro park and tapas at San Miguel: what to see in Madrid, when to go around the heat, and the city's honest drawback.
A Renaissance square with two surviving gates, the Sobieski castle, a church holding royal tombs and a wooden Trinity Church on the UNESCO list: a half-day route and how to reach it from Lviv.
Optymistychna Cave in the village of Korolivka in the Ternopil region is over 260 km of underground passages and the world's longest gypsum cave. We cover the routes, prices, gear and how to get there.
A walk along the medieval walls above the sea, the marble Stradun, the panorama from Mount Srđ, King's Landing from Game of Thrones and Lokrum Island: what to fit into Dubrovnik, when to go and the honest downside.
