Over a dozen markets in one city: where the imperial postcard is, where locals shop for handmade gifts, what punch costs and why weekdays before 16:00 win.
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.
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.
Salmon soup at a Helsinki market hall, rye pasties with egg butter, reindeer with lingonberries and ammonium chloride candy. Finnish cuisine, honestly rated.
Herring eaten by the tail, hot food from a FEBO wall and cheese that crunches with crystals. Six things to eat on Dutch streets rather than in restaurants.
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.
