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Here’s the thing about Split — you go expecting ruins, and you leave having fallen for a living, breathing city instead. Yes, Diocletian’s Palace is over 1,700 years old, and yes, its ancient columns are technically holding up people’s homes – still standing after years of wars &…
Few cities can claim a legacy as deep as Split’s, a place that has been celebrated since ancient times for its enormous influence within the Roman Empire. And yet, against all odds, its old town has survived largely untouched — spared not only by the march of time…
It was pure chance that led me to discover Freiburg im Breisgau. I was coming from Basel, in Switzerland, and needed to make my way to Bavaria using the now-famous Deutschlandticket – yes, that was going to take a while. But faced with a limited choice of reasonably…
Winter in Poland is kind of magical. Snow settles over rooftops and cobblestones in a hush of white, and on those rare, crisp days when the sky clears, the low sun catches the colourful façades of Polish architecture, setting whole streets a glow in gold and rose. It’s…
Munich is a city that knows how to eat. And I had no clue, the first time I came. Because I’m French, and the French are famously, as we should – convinced that nobody cooks quite like we do. We’ll make the odd exception for an Italian pizza,…
Is travelling to Bali really responsible travel in itself? To be honest, a month on the island left me with no clean answer, only a complicated one. It showed me that being a “responsible traveller” is nowhere near as simple as the phrase suggests. As a tourist, as…
I fell for Salzburg on a bright December day, during a day trip from Munich. The train ride alone was worth it — two hours through the Bavarian countryside, past little villages dusted in snow, frozen fields so quiet it felt like the whole world had paused, and…
So, this isn’t your first time in Rome. Nor your second. Yet, somehow, this city keeps calling you back. Something about its architectural charm, layers of history, the light on old stone in the late afternoon, and immense culture. So here you are again, ticket booked, bags half-packed,…
Vienna always has a way of surprising you, no matter how many times you’ve walked its streets. This was my third trip to the Austrian capital—it was February 2025—and I arrived thinking I more or less knew the city by now. Vienna, of course, had other plans. Between…
Yogyakarta caught me off guard—in the best possible way. It’s one of those rare cities that welcomes you without ever feeling overrun by you: lively enough to keep things interesting, yet still unmistakably itself. There’s a balance here that you don’t always find in Indonesia —a mix of…