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I went to Dubrovnik expecting to be disappointed. That’s not how I usually travel — I try to arrive somewhere open rather than braced — but I’d read enough “Dubrovnik is ruined by tourists” pieces and enough “Dubrovnik is overrated and overpriced” posts that I’d talked myself into a skeptical posture before I’d even landed….
The Algarve is the kind of place that requires no justification. You go because of the beaches, and the beaches deliver so thoroughly that most visitors spend their first day slightly stunned, wondering why they waited this long to come. I’ve been four times over the years — once with family, once alone, twice with…
I nearly didn’t go to Morocco. I’d read enough contradictory accounts online — “it’s magical,” “it’s exhausting,” “the medinas are overwhelming,” “the people are incredibly kind,” “the touts won’t leave you alone” — that I couldn’t form a clear picture of what actually waiting on the other side of the flight. Eventually a friend who’d…
Amsterdam is one of those cities that works at almost any pace, but it especially rewards the long weekend. Not rushed enough to feel like you’re checking boxes, not so long that you run out of things to discover. Three or four days is the natural unit for this city — enough to get past…
This is the question I get asked more than almost any other when someone tells me they’re heading to Indonesia for the first time. And I understand why — from the outside, Bali and Lombok look similar enough to be interchangeable. Both are Indonesian islands with mountains, beaches, rice fields, and a reputation for being…
Lisbon has a tourist circuit so well-worn that it’s possible to spend four days in the city, take hundreds of photographs, eat perfectly decent food, and come away having seen almost nothing of what makes the place genuinely interesting. Belém tower, the yellow trams on Rua da Bica, the viewpoint at Miradouro da Graça,…
Cappadocia is one of those places that looks exactly like the photos — which is both a relief and slightly disorienting when you first arrive. The fairy chimneys, the hot air balloons drifting over rose-colored valleys at sunrise, the cave hotels carved directly into ancient rock. It’s all real, and it’s genuinely unlike anywhere…
Kyoto is one of the few cities in the world that genuinely lives up to what people imagine before they arrive. The temples, the narrow lanes of preserved machiya townhouses, the moss gardens, the geisha districts, the mountains pressing in from three sides — it’s all there, and it’s all as quietly extraordinary as…
Let’s start with the truth: Santorini is not a budget destination. It never really was, and in the past few years it has moved firmly into the category of places where even modest comfort costs real money. The famous cave hotels in Oia with infinity pools overlooking the caldera start at $400 a night…