Europe Travel Guides & Stories

Britain (UK) Travel Guide

When you check out the relative size of Britain on any honest map it’s kind of hard to imagine how ...

Germany Travel Guide Online

The trains run on time, the food has strict quality standards, cars must pass stringent tests every two years, forests ...

Hungary Travel Guide

When you get off the train and step into whatever city in Hungary you’re visiting, you won’t see much different ...

Italy Travel Guide - Road Junky

Italy is the land of all things beautiful. From the good food to the designer clothes, from the medieval art ...

Holland Travel Guide Online

Holland (or at least Amsterdam) is world famous for its liberal drug policy and institutionalization of prostitution but there is ...

Romania Travel Guide Online

Communists, vampires and gymnasts would seem to be the only inhabitants of Romania if the stereotypes were true. Add gypsies, ...

Greece :: Not Your Stereotypical Greek Photo Guide

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Kyriakos Michaloutsos. Filed in: Photo Guides - Greece

Greece – full of forests, snow, mountains and skiing right?

Norway :: Oslo Photo Guide

Posted on Oct 12, 2006 by Steven Jarvis. Filed in: Photo Guides - Norway

Gorgeous Oslo, Norway – the finest travels money can buy.

Spain :: Ibiza Photo Guide

Posted on Jun 06, 2007 by Joanna Hruby. Filed in: Photo Guides - Spain

Ibiza can be more chilled out than the madness of the clubs.

Spain :: Photo Guide to Madrid

Posted on Aug 23, 2006 by Arya Kazemi. Filed in: Photo Guides - Spain

Madrid – stately and sin siesta.

Spain :: Photo Guide to Granada and La Alpujarra

Posted on Aug 07, 2006 by Joanna Hruby. Filed in: Photo Guides - Spain

Spain, like much of Western Europe, has been influenced by Asia and Africa – these photos show the Moorish and even Buddhist inspirations.

On the Rocks in Tirana, Albania

Days have past, yet the child still haunts me.

When I can’t sleep, I replay the scene again and again in ...

Berat, Albania - Haecietas

The ache never goes away. There is always a thread of loneliness or despair when I am not in physical ...

A Beautiful Word for a Beautiful Place

Pogradec, Albania

I roll its three syllables around my mouth like a fine wine. You could travel all your life and ...

Volunteer in Albania - A Nightmare Story

At the Albanian border they made us dismount the bus to check our passports and give us our visas to ...

Hitchhiking France Travel

Busking in the streets in Biarritz an Algerian and a Frenchman came along and threw me a few coins. In ...

Seaside France Travel Story

Seaboard towns the world over have something slightly seedy about them, in Greece as in Jersey. Even if ships no ...

Hitchhiking from England to France

Before I hitchhiked to India with no money, I made a stab at getting to Morocco on the same ...

Germany Christmas Markets

The snow glistens with the array of coloured fairy lights. The smell of fresh gingerbread and grilled bratwurst wafts over ...

Prussian Parks and Palaces in Potsdam

The opulent and elegant castles of Brandenburg’s Prussian aristocracy attract visitors in throngs to the delightful city of Potsdam, 25km ...

Berlin Bunkers Underground Germany

In the Berlin underground train station, Gesundbrunnen, there is a green door which thousands of people pass everyday, completely ignorant ...

Oktoberfest - German Beer Festival

It is an event of world notoriety, and they come from everywhere to crowd the tents, down the one litre ...

Freedom is Sleeping on a Beach - Sardinia, Italy

Like any proud road junky I get on the bus along the southern coast of Sardinia without a guidebook and ...

Death and Enlightenment in South Italy

Last year I had the idea I wanted to live in South Italy, what with the good weather, fine food ...

Mount Etna Travel Story, Italy - Road Junky

There were five of us traveling together at this point: myself, Eric, Alex, Mark, and Adrian. We were in Siracusa ...

Riga, Latvia - Gap Year Debauchery

It was around midnight when I finally found the correct street. Perhaps it was the combination of sleep deprivation and ...

Visa - A Romanian Vacation

Visa: Don’t leave home without it. This is typically the catchphrase of American Express, not Visa. But if you’re an ...

Bum Tourism in Bratislava

Bratislava, known originally as Pressburg, was founded before the 10th century and was once the capital of Hungary.

When three great ...

The Tragic Story of Vindalf the Dog in La Palma

The Rainbow Gathering in the Canary Island of La Palma was the first I’d ever attended where I didn’t freeze ...

Pamplona, Spain Running with the Bulls

There comes a time in the life of every young man when he feels the need to test his mettle ...

Pamplona Bulls Festival Spain

Well, I ran with the bulls of Pamplona for the second morning now.

Technically I didn’t run with them as ...

Hitchhiking in Spain with Homosexual Drivers

A 24 hour ride with a junky from Ibiza had landed me in the middle of Spain under a ...

Ibiza Night Clubs and Travel

It´s hard to write about islands in the Mediterranean Sea without slipping into the kind of cliched descriptions of picturesque ...

Moroccans in Barcelona, Spain

Scholars generally agree that the period of Muslim rule in Spain was one of the highlights in the history ...

The Bilbao Museum, Spain and Basque Separatists

Finally. Finally after thirty-three years of missed opportunities, uncomfortable silences and the fear I’d take my thoughts on the subject ...

Barcelona Las Ramblas, Spain

Every city has its street, it seems, that is supposed to be the showcase of the character and charm of ...

Ibiza Travel Hippie Spain

Back in ´99 I came back to England after a few years of absence and at once got itchy feet. ...