11 articles
4 June 2026
greeceZakynthos Travel Guide: Navagio Beach, Sea Turtles, and the Blue Caves
Zakynthos — marketed internationally as Zante — is an Ionian island on Greece's west coast. The island's most circulated image is Navagio Beach (Shipwreck Beach): a rusted 1980s cargo ship run aground in a white-sand cove enclosed by vertical limestone cliffs, with water the…
Henrik Vinter
4 June 2026
croatiaHvar Travel Guide: Getting There, Where to Stay, and What to Skip
Hvar is the longest island in the Adriatic at 68km, but the parts that most visitors come for occupy a few square kilometres at the western tip. The island has been a tourist destination since the Austrian imperial period in the 19th century; it has the best-developed…
Henrik Vinter
28 May 2026
portugalCascais Travel Guide: The Atlantic Town 30km from Lisbon
Cascais is a fishing town on the Atlantic coast of the Estoril Coast (Linha de Cascais), 30km west of Lisbon and 40 minutes by train from Cais do Sodré station. The Portuguese royal family used it as a summer residence f
Henrik Vinter
24 May 2026
vietnamPhu Quoc Travel Guide: Vietnam's Island That Got Discovered Twice
Phu Quoc is Vietnam's largest island — 589 km² off the southwest coast, closer to Cambodia than to Ho Chi Minh City. An international airport opened in 2012; a casino resort opened in 2020; an elevated cable car crosses 8km of sea to a theme park island. Long Beach is still a long beach. The north still has a national park.
Henrik Vinter
21 May 2026
united statesMiami Travel Guide: South Beach, Wynwood, and a City Built for Winter
Miami occupies the southeast tip of Florida — subtropical, flat, and designed around the car. In winter (December–April) it has the best weather of any major American city: 24–28°C, low humidity, clear skies. South Beach has Art Deco architecture from the 1930s, a beach that faces east into the Atlantic, and hotels that charge accordingly.
Henrik Vinter
20 May 2026
thailandKoh Lanta Travel Guide: The Andaman Island That Trades Crowds for Coral
Koh Lanta sits south of Krabi in the Andaman Sea — long enough to have a proper road, small enough that most of it stays quiet. Long Beach stretches 4km without jet-ski operators; the national park at the southern tip costs 200 baht to enter and is almost never full.
Henrik Vinter
18 May 2026
japanOkinawa Travel Guide: Japan's Subtropical Islands, Explained
Okinawa Prefecture consists of 160 islands spread across 1,000km of ocean between Japan and Taiwan. The main island has traffic, Shuri Castle, and the most US military bases outside the continental United States. The outer islands have some of the clearest water in Japan and almost no one on them.
Henrik Vinter
17 May 2026
vietnamDa Nang Travel Guide: Beach City, Dragon Bridge, and the Base for Central Vietnam
Da Nang is Vietnam's third-largest city and the most useful base for central Vietnam — 30 minutes from Hoi An, 2 hours from Hue, with its own beach (My Khe, 30km of flat sand), an international airport, and a city that has rebuilt itself almost entirely in the past 20 years.
Henrik Vinter
14 May 2026
thailandKoh Phangan Travel Guide: Beyond the Full Moon Party
The Full Moon Party is real and it is worth doing once. But Koh Phangan is also a 168 km² island with a national park, a dozen quiet bays, a functioning yoga industry, and some of the best seafood in the Gulf of Thailand. Most of it has nothing to do with buckets and neon paint.
Henrik Vinter
11 May 2026
bulgariaBulgarian Black Sea Coast: Nesebar, Sozopol, Varna, and the Summer Season
The Bulgarian Black Sea coast draws millions of domestic and Eastern European visitors each summer. The beach resorts are busy and functional. The two things that distinguish it from any other European beach destination are Nesebar — a 3,000-year-old peninsula town with Byzantine church ruins — and prices that remain well below Greek or Croatian equivalents.
Henrik Vinter
1 May 2026
cambodiaCambodia's Islands and Coast: Koh Rong, Koh Rong Samloem, Kampot, and Kep
The Cambodian coast is still developing as a destination — infrastructure is basic in places, and Sihanoukville's Chinese casino development has changed the character of the mainland departure point. The islands themselves remain largely unspoiled. Kampot and Kep, an hour south, are a different proposition: river towns, pepper farms, and some of the best crabs in Southeast Asia.
Henrik Vinter