Best Beaches Near Lisbon (and Where Locals Go)
Most travel guides will send you straight to Cascais — and Cascais is great — but the Lisbon coast isn’t one beach. It’s a string of beaches and most are reachable by train in 25 to 40 minutes. After a…
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Estepona Old Town: The Prettiest Costa del Sol Town
The Costa del Sol has a reputation for being a strip of resort towns that could be anywhere and attracts mainly foreign tourists. Estepona is on the Costa del Sol coast, thirty minutes west of Marbella, is an exception. Estepona’s…
Where to Stay in Málaga: Best Areas and Neighbourhoods
Málaga is small enough that no area is really a bad choice, and different enough between neighbourhoods that the choice still matters. The old town is walkable and loud. The beach neighbourhoods are quieter and further out. And twenty minutes…
Is Málaga Expensive? What a Week in the City Costs
Málaga was not as expensive as we thought. We spent a weekend and working week in Málaga, exploring the city on our days off and in the evenings. We ate out, but we also bought groceries and cooked in. We…
The Best Things to Do in Málaga, Spain
We spent a week in Málaga, working on weekdays and getting out into the city in the evenings, before heading down the coast to Estepona for a few days with Luke’s family. It was a good way to see the…
Best Wine Bars in Brighton — Where We Drink (2026)
The best wine bars in Brighton are across the city and to a mile west along Church Road and Western Road in Hove. Brighton and Hove sits in the middle of English wine country and it draws exactly the kind…
Best Independent Coffee Shops in Brighton and Hove (2026)
Brighton and Hove’s independent coffee scene is one of the better things about living here. Forget Starbucks, Costa and Nero — you can get your caffeine fix and put your money into a local business at the same time, and…
Sussex Vineyards With Restaurants: Where To Eat Among the Vines (2026)
Sussex vineyards with restaurants turn an afternoon tasting into a wonderful day out. Eating at a vineyard is a different proposition to eating anywhere else: the wine list is about eight bottles long, all of it made roughly two hundred…
Where to Stay in Cape Town: The 7 Best Areas Compared
Where to stay in Cape Town, area by area, from the City Bowl and Camps Bay to Kalk Bay and the Winelands, with which areas feel safest and where we based ourselves.
Cuckmere Haven: The Valley Walk That Skips the Seven Sisters Crowds (2026)
Everybody who gets the bus out to Seven Sisters Country Park turns right, walks to the sea, and photographs the cliffs. They are spectacular after all. But there’s a hidden gem walk if you turn left.