🌊 Introduction & Why Go The first afternoon in Vieux Nice, I got lost on purpose. The streets are barely wide enough for two people to pass shoulder to shoulder, the buildings lean in overhead in ochre and rust, and every doorway smells like something frying in olive oil. I’d built a road trip around…
✈️ Introduction & Why Go I’ve returned to Barcelona several times since 2008, and I still haven’t tired of it. The city rewards repeat visits in a way few others do; a new detail on a Gaudí façade, a different tapas bar down a side street, a fresh reason to walk La Rambla one more…
🌊 Monaco Travel Guide: Why This Tiny Principality Is Worth the Detour I hadn’t planned much time for Monaco. It was August, I was driving from Nice into Italy, and the principality just happened to sit on the way — a coastline detour that turned into one of the strangest afternoons of that whole trip….
🌊 Introduction & Why Go I noticed the smell of frying dough before I even saw the harbor. That was Genoa’s introduction to me: a narrow caruggio opening onto a square, someone’s farinata sizzling behind a fogged-up window, and the sea somewhere just out of view behind five centuries of stacked stone buildings. I went…
🏛️ Introduction & Why Go Four days in Florence turned out to be barely enough, and I didn’t realize that until I’d already landed and started walking. This Florence travel guide comes out of that trip. The city packs Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, and half of the Renaissance into a historic center so compact that a person…
🌅 Introduction & Why Go This Rome travel guide starts, oddly enough, on the side of a dark highway somewhere between Florence and Rome, with me pushing a rental car while my legs shook from the effort. That is not how I pictured my first night in the Eternal City, but it is exactly the…
