I still remember standing on a rocky ledge above the Adriatic somewhere between Krk and Cres, squinting into water so blue and clear it looked photoshopped, thinking: why did nobody tell me about this place sooner? The Kvarner Gulf doesn’t always make the Croatia highlight reel — Dubrovnik hogs the spotlight, Split gets the Instagram … Read more
Knowing how to access and explore Meteora monasteries is the first step to making the most of your visit. These extraordinary religious complexes sit atop sheer sandstone pillars rising more than 400 meters above the Thessaly plain, which means reaching them takes a little more thought than a typical sightseeing stop. The good news is … Read more
There I was, standing at the entrance of Wat Pho in Bangkok, wearing a perfectly cute sundress — spaghetti straps, mid-thigh hem, the whole tropical vacation look — and a very kind but very firm guard handed me a pair of paper shorts and pointed me toward a changing area. Mortifying? A little. Easily avoidable? … Read more
If you’ve been searching for what to wear to temples in Thailand, you’re not alone — it’s one of the most Googled questions before visiting the country. The good news is that the rules aren’t complicated. Once you understand a few key principles, putting together the right outfit for temple in Thailand is actually pretty … Read more
Picture this: you’ve just sweated through a 45-minute tuk-tuk ride across Bangkok, you’re standing at the entrance of the Grand Palace, and the guard is looking at your strappy sundress like you’ve personally offended the monarchy. A small crowd of equally underdressed tourists shuffles beside you toward a sarong rental booth, wallets out, dignity slightly … Read more
The Dacia Duster That Survived 1,300 Kilometres of Icelandic Gravel I spent an embarrassing amount of time on car rental sites before the Ring Road trip — we’re talking three browsers open, a spreadsheet, and a growing suspicion that every company was quoting me a different base price just to watch me suffer. What finally … Read more
I booked this trip at 11pm on a Tuesday after a meeting where someone used the phrase “synergize our deliverables” for the third time in an hour — my corporate brain needed an escape hatch, fast, and something about typing…
When I left my job without another one lined up, everyone thought I was having a breakdown. I was. But I was also buying a one-way ticket to Reykjavík, and it turned out those two things were connected — because sometimes the only cure for a life that has stopped making sense is standing in … Read more
By February, the grey had settled in so deep I could feel it behind my eyes. I needed sun, warmth, and a place where winter was someone else’s problem for a few weeks — and then, in what I can…
I never took a gap year. I went straight from high school to college to a career, doing every sensible thing in the right order — and somewhere around 32 I realized I’d been meaning to see the world since…
