Tag Archives: Dinners

I’ve Visited 20+ Spanish Cities: Skip Palma For This 14th-Century City With 77°F Autumns, $17 Dinners, And Fewer Crowds

Share The Article Forget Barcelona and that jam-packed Gothic Quarter, Madrid with the grand Belle Époque boulevards, and even pretty little Palma, with its soaring cathedral built as stout as a fortress: After visiting 11 out of the country’s 17 autonomous communities, and something like 23 different major cities, from the northwesternmost edge of Galicia […]

5 Underrated Medieval European Towns With Intact 14th-Century Walls, $18 Dinners, And Zero Crowds

Share The Article Having lived across 3 European countries, from England to Ireland to France (my current home), and almost a decade into country-hopping solo around the Old Continent, with 40+ countries visited, I think I’ve reached the point I can look back in hindsight and reassess my priorities. What’s the main reason for Americans […]

This Underrated Eastern European City With 4th-Century Fortresses, $15 Dinners, And 1-Year Visa Free Visits For Americans Is Breaking Tourism Records

Share The Article If you’re tired of hearing well-traveled acquaintances raving about their Paris–London–Rome circuit every year, we have something for you that might actually properly turn a few heads, and that won’t burn a hole through your wallet: Tucked away in the far Eastern corner of Europe, in a pocket-sized country roughly the size […]

This English-Speaking Caribbean Island Has 82°F Winters, No Cars, And $15 Lobster Dinners

Share The Article When I first stepped off the water taxi onto the wooden docks of Caye Caulker, the chaos of international transit vanished instantly. I was carrying my heavy bag under the blinding Caribbean sun, but my pulse immediately started to slow down. There are no massive concrete hotel towers blocking the ocean breeze, […]

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