Travel guides, itineraries, and experiences across destinations in Europe, from major cities to regional highlights.
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, start with Mostar: Bosnia’s Bridge Between Worlds. By the time I arrived in Dubrovnik, I had already completed the eighth transportation leg of this Central Europe adventure: two trains, six buses, and more historic centers than I could count. And…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Croatia’s coast, start with Split: Roman History Meets the Adriatic. Before arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I knew remarkably little about the country. I could point to it on a map, knew it had once been part of Yugoslavia, and knew Mostar was…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Croatia’s capital, start with Zagreb: Croatia’s Overlooked Capital. After a single night in Zagreb, another early bus awaited. This time, however, I was finally heading toward the Croatia I thought I was coming to see. Before arriving in the country, the images that…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Slovenia, start with I Thought Slovenia Was a Stop. It Should Have Been the Trip. Fresh off Slovenia, where what I thought would be a brief stop quickly became one of the highlights of the trip, I was once again boarding a bus…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Austria, start with Why I Stopped in Graz Instead of Going Straight to Slovenia. By the time I arrived in Slovenia, I thought I already knew what the highlight of my trip would be. Kraków had exceeded every expectation—the food, the history, the…