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Day-by-Day Plans
Blog-length, day-by-day trip write-ups. 232 dispatches and counting.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Slow Train Lover's 6 Days Through Japan's Countryside: Kanazawa to Hakone
Six days, one legendary rail route, and zero bullet trains. This Japan slow train itinerary from Kanazawa to Hakone is the trip I'd take again tomorrow.
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Day-by-Day Plans2 Days in Luxembourg City: A Fortress on a Cliff and Europe's Quietest Capital
Nobody plans a trip to Luxembourg City and that's exactly why I loved it — a two-tier fortress town carved into a gorge, free public transport, and barely a tour group in sight. Two quiet days, properly underrated.
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Day-by-Day Plans2 Days in Wellington: Coffee Snobbery, a Cable Car, and New Zealand's Windy Capital
Wellington holds the title for most cafes per capita on Earth and the wind will physically remove your hat. Two days, built around flat whites and Te Papa, from someone who came for the coffee and stayed for the wind-shame.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe 3-Day Ronda Itinerary: A Town Split in Half by a Canyon and Still Standing
Ronda sits on a cliff cut in two by a vertigo-inducing gorge, and the famous bridge is just the start. Here's a slow three-day Ronda itinerary with white villages, wine, and the best views in Andalusia.
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Day-by-Day Plans3 Days in Cape Town for the Outdoorsy: Table Mountain, Penguins, and a Windy Lesson
Three active days in Cape Town, planned around the one thing nobody warns you about: the wind. Hike Table Mountain, meet the penguins, and learn why you watch the forecast like a hawk.
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Day-by-Day Plans3 Days in Medellin for Digital Nomads: Cafes With Wi-Fi, Cable Cars, and Eternal Spring
Medellin sits at the sweet spot where the weather never asks anything of you and the cafe Wi-Fi actually holds a video call. Three days balancing laptop mornings, comuna tours, and the cable car that changed the city.
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Day-by-Day Plans3 Days in Singapore for the Aggressively Frugal: Hawker Stalls Over Hotel Bars
You can do 3 days in Singapore, hit every icon, eat like a king, and still spend less than one cocktail at Marina Bay Sands costs. Here's the hawker-and-MRT plan that proves it.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe 4-Day Brasov Itinerary: Castles, Carpathians, and Dracula's Day Job
Brasov is the perfect Transylvania base camp — medieval old town, mountains out your window, Bran Castle nearby, and actual wild bears. Here's a four-day plan that does it without the Dracula tat.
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Day-by-Day Plans4 Days in Osaka With Kids: Castles, Ramen Slurping, and Surviving the Aquarium
I took two small, loud humans to Osaka and lived to tell it. Here's how the city's food-mad, neon energy basically babysits your children for you — castle, aquarium, takoyaki, and all.
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Day-by-Day Plans4 Days in the Scottish Highlands by Rental Car: Glens, Lochs, and One Monster Sighting
I drove the Scottish Highlands for four days, got rained on sideways, drank too much whisky, and saw something move in Loch Ness I cannot fully explain. A self-drive loop for people who want glens over cities.
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Day-by-Day Plans5 Days in Patagonia's W Trek: Mud, Wind, Glaciers, and the Best Sore Legs of My Life
A day-by-day diary of the W Trek in Torres del Paine — five days, a lot of wind, two blisters, one glacier that stopped me dead. Honest about the suffering-to-payoff ratio.
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Day-by-Day Plans5 Days in Vietnam's South: Saigon, the Mekong Delta, and a Motorbike I Regret
Five days in southern Vietnam, told honestly: the chaos of Saigon, the floating markets of the Mekong, and the scooter I rented that I will be apologising for the rest of my life.
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Day-by-Day PlansA First-Timer's 4-Day Amsterdam Itinerary: Canals, Museums, and Avoiding the Obvious
Your first 4 days in Amsterdam, with the tourist traps named out loud and a route around them. Less queueing, more canal, fewer regretful €18 'Dutch pancakes' in the centre.
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Day-by-Day PlansA Rainy 3-Day Glasgow Itinerary: Galleries, Curry, and the Art of Not Caring About Weather
Planning 3 days in Glasgow and worried about the rain? Don't be. The whole city is basically built to be enjoyed while it's chucking it down. Here's the drizzle-proof plan.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Budget 4-Day Belgrade Itinerary: Big Nights, Bigger River, Tiny Bill
This Belgrade itinerary proves Serbia's capital gives you a wild four-day long weekend for less than the price of one fancy London dinner. Big nights on the river, big history on the hill, and a bill that'll make you laugh.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Budget 5-Day Bali Itinerary: Ubud to the Coast Without the Influencer Markup
Five days in Bali on actual-human money — Ubud to the coast, eating at the warungs locals queue at, dodging the €9 smashed-avocado crowd. Real prices, real plan.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Design-Lover's 3-Day Copenhagen Itinerary: Chairs Worth a Mortgage and Smorrebrod
Three days in Copenhagen obsessed entirely with Danish design — the chairs, the lamps, the perfect open-faced sandwich. For people who get emotional about a well-made stool.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Design-Lover's 4-Day Milan Itinerary: Furniture, Facades, and Aperitivo
Most people do 4 days in Milan and queue an hour for the Duomo. I skip it for showrooms, a chair that costs more than my rent, and the most serious aperitivo ritual in Italy. Join me.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe First-Timer's 4-Day Rome Itinerary: Ruins, Carbs, and Outsmarting the Queues
Your first 4 days in Rome, built around skip-the-line timing and gelato pacing. The big sights, the carbs that matter, and how to not spend half your trip standing in a queue.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe First-Timer's 5-Day Tokyo Itinerary: Neon, Shrines, and Recovering From Sensory Overload
Tokyo will fry your circuits if you let it. This is a gentler 5-day first-timer plan that deliberately schedules calm between the overwhelming bits — neon nights, quiet shrines, and a built-in day to do nothing.
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Day-by-Day PlansFive Days in the Faroe Islands: Sheep, Sideways Rain, and Cliffs That Don't Quit
The Faroe Islands are 18 lumps of green rock in the North Atlantic where the weather changes every nine minutes. Here's a five-day self-drive Faroe Islands itinerary for people who like their landscapes moody.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Foodie 3-Day Bangkok Itinerary: Boat Noodles, Night Markets, and a Michelin Street Cart
Three days in Bangkok, mapped entirely by what you'll eat — boat noodles, a green-curry hole-in-the-wall, and that Michelin-starred street cart everyone queues two hours for. Come hungry.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Foodie 3-Day Tel Aviv Itinerary: Hummus Wars, Beach Bars, and a Market Crawl
Tel Aviv argues about hummus the way other cities argue about football. Three days eating my way through Carmel Market, the beach bars, and a hummus rivalry I take very personally now.
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Day-by-Day PlansThe Foodie 3-Day Trieste Itinerary: Where Italy Orders Coffee in German
Trieste is Italian but it doesn't quite act it — the coffee comes with Austrian names and the food leans Slovenian. Here's a three-day eating crawl through Italy's strangest, most underrated port city.