There’s more to discover in Europe than you might think. From historic cities to lush green landscapes, Europe is home to so many beautiful places. Take a slow travel trip to Barcelona, get lost in a maze of streets in Granda, explore magnificent lakes in Macedonia, immerse yourself in Bulgarian history, and go by train across Poland.
Lanzarote is the northernmost island in the Canary Islands. You’ll find plenty of Spanish influence here in the tapas and culture. But the island has its own distinct identity. The volcanic landscapes are unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.