Choosing where to stay in Granada isn’t really a question about location. It’s a question about hills. Almost everywhere you’d want to stay is within twenty minutes of everywhere else on a map, and a good number of those twenty minutes go straight up a cobbled slope. That’s the thing that decides whether your trip…
Granada is worth visiting, and I’d put it near the top of any first trip through southern Spain. What I’d add is that it’s worth visiting properly, with at least two nights, rather than squeezed in as a rushed stop between two bigger cities. That second part matters more than people expect. Granada sits inland…
Amsterdam gets a strange mix of reactions before people even book their flight. Some hear it’s one of the best cities in Europe. Others hear it’s overpriced, overcrowded, and not worth the hype. Both of those reputations exist for a reason, and the honest answer sits somewhere between them. Part of the confusion comes from…
I didn’t expect food to become one of the biggest parts of my Amsterdam trip but it did. Let me just say, I ate fries almost every day, tried a different sauce nearly every time, and somewhere along the way, found a genuinely good döner, thanks to Amsterdam’s sizable Turkish community. As a Muslim traveler,…
Here’s the thing most week-long Amsterdam itineraries won’t tell you: seven days in the city itself is too many. You’ll run out of museums by day four and start padding the rest with things you wouldn’t have bothered with on a shorter trip. The better use of a week is to keep Amsterdam as your…
Three days sounds tight for a capital city, but Amsterdam is one of the few places where it’s genuinely enough. You can walk across the middle of it in under an hour, which is exactly why so many people get it wrong. They look at a map, decide everything is close together, and then try…
Most food guides to Paris are built around a spine of wine pairings, pork charcuterie, and dishes braised in alcohol. If you’re like us and don’t eat or drink any of that, roughly half of a typical “must-try” list becomes unusable, and the guides written for you tend to be restaurant directories rather than actual…
The area you choose to stay in Paris will shape your trip more than the specific property you book. Get it right and you walk to most of what you came for. Get it wrong and you spend a chunk of every day on the metro, which is exactly what happened to us. If you…
Paris throws a lot at you in a short amount of time, and most guides respond by listing everything the city has instead of telling you what’s actually worth your limited days. In this guide, I’m recommending the things I did on my own first trip to Paris, what genuinely surprised me, and what I’d…
I visited Paris as a 20 year old, with my favorite cousin and my sister. This was also the first time that I was in Europe, and was genuinely excited to fit in as much into my trip as possible. Three days in Paris is enough for the major sights plus a bit of breathing…
