Travel Guides
Explore 50+ comprehensive travel guides across the UK and Europe.
Indonesia
Bali in Three Days: Sacred Water Rituals, Warung Feasts, and the Nusa Penida Cliff Path That Will Test Your Nerves
Three days is not enough for Bali. But if you choose wisely—sacred water rituals, warung feasts, black sand beaches, and one terrifying cliff path—you will leave with memories that outlast your tan.
Sustainable TravelSulawesi Is Not Bali: Where Indonesia's Last Honest Reefs Meet the Villages That Protect Them
A sustainable travel guide to Sulawesi's remote archipelagos, marine parks, and community-based tourism.
Culture & HistorySurabaya: The City That Fought the Dutch, Built a Bridge to Madura, and Refuses to Be Jakarta
Indonesia's second city is not a transit lounge. It is a battlefield, a port, and a mixing bowl of Javanese, Arab, Chinese, and Dutch histories that never fully blended and never fully separated.
Solo TravelBali for One: A Solo Traveler's Guide to the Island That Swallows Laptops and Spits Out Rice Terraces
Bali is the world's most Instagrammed island — but beneath the smoothie bowls and infinity pools lies a real place with real traffic, real warungs, and real solo travel lessons. Maya Johnson spent six weeks there alone and came back with the truth about where to stay, what to eat, and what to skip.
Vietnam
Hoi An's Three Sacred Noodles and the Dumplings That Will Ruin Your Life: A Food Writer's 10-Day Eating Campaign
A relentless eating campaign through Hoi An's UNESCO old town—three sacred noodles, white rose dumplings, the best banh mi in Vietnam, and where the locals actually eat.
Activity GuidesHoi An Beyond the Postcards: A Field Guide to Vietnam's Most Seductive Small Town
Beyond the lantern-lit old town lies a landscape of rice paddies, water coconut groves, and fishing beaches that most tourists never properly explore. A field guide to moving through Hoi An with intention.
Budget GuidesPhu Quoc on a Shoestring: How to Do Vietnam's Island Paradise for $30 a Day
A practical budget guide to Vietnam's largest island, covering dorms, scooter days, free beaches, and the fish sauce factories that actually matter.
Solo TravelHoi An: The Solo Traveler's Guide to Vietnam's Ancient Town of Lanterns and Tailors
A solo travel guide to Hoi An, Vietnam, covering the ancient town, tailors, food, cooking classes, beaches, day trips, accommodation, safety, and what to skip.
South Africa
United Kingdom
Pembrokeshire Coast in Autumn: Where Atlantic Seals Raise Their Young and the Weather Makes the Rules
An honest, detailed guide to autumn on the Pembrokeshire Coast—seal pupping season, storm watching, ancient landscapes, and where to eat fish that was swimming this morning.
AdventureSnowdonia: A Field Guide to Getting Lost on Purpose
A comprehensive adventure guide to Snowdonia National Park, covering mountain routes, wild swimming, coasteering, and where to eat and sleep.
Culture & HistoryShetland: Where the Vikings Never Left and the Ponies Outnumber the Trees
A guide to the UK's most northerly inhabited islands, where Norse heritage, 2,000-year-old brochs, and the Up Helly Aa fire festival survive on treeless, windswept islands closer to Norway than to London.
Eswatini
Gambia
Russia
Cameroon
Brazil
Lençóis Maranhenses: Where the Desert Drowns in Fresh Water for Four Months a Year
A remote Brazilian national park where 1,550 square kilometers of white quartz dunes transform into thousands of seasonal freshwater lagoons between June and September—accessible only by 4x4, best explored on foot, and completely unforgiving if you get the timing wrong.
Food & DrinkBelo Horizonte: Brazil's Best-Kept Food Secret, Where the Botecos Outnumber the Tourists
A food critic's guide to Brazil's only UNESCO City of Gastronomy, from the boteco counters of Savassi to the wood-fired farmhouses of Pampulha.
Sustainable TravelBonito, Brazil: The Town That Built an Economy by Saying No to Tourists
A sustainable travel guide to Bonito, Brazil — the world's first carbon-neutral ecotourism destination, where limestone-filtered rivers, strict visitor limits, and community-based tourism create one of South America's most successful conservation models.
Burundi
Sierra Leone
Gabon
South Korea
Brunei
Djibouti
Andorra
Lesotho
Turkey
China
Kashgar: Where the Silk Road Still Runs on Sheep, Cardamom Tea, and Beijing Time
A culture and history guide to China's westernmost city, where Uyghur tradition, Silk Road commerce, and Central Asian Islam survive at the edge of the desert.
Food & DrinkChongqing: Where Hot Pot Was Born, the Noodles Make You Sweat, and the City Climbs in Eight Directions
A food writer guide to China vertical city, from dockside hot pot and numbing noodles to river fish and the street snacks that fuel 30 million people.
Canada
Oman
El Salvador
India
Manali: Where the Himalayas Start and the Adventure Gets Real
A guide to trekking, paragliding, rafting, skiing, and mountaineering in Manali, India — with honest warnings about equipment, operators, and altitude.
AdventureLeh, Ladakh: Where the Indian Himalayas Become Desert and the Rivers Freeze into Highways
A field guide to India's highest cold desert: altitude acclimatisation, trekking permits, high-altitude passes, and the practical reality of adventure at 3,500+ metres in the Indian Himalayas