Safety & Health
Travel and mental health
Travel is presented as restorative and is also disruptive, and the effects on wellbeing are more complicated than the marketing.
Traveleogy — Fewer places, better days
Safety & Health
The things worth knowing before any trip
A short list that applies regardless of destination, assembled from everything else on this site.
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Travelling in the off season
Winter and low-season travel has specific requirements and specific rewards, and the risks are weather rather than anything exotic.
Food & Culture
Coffee, tea and drinking culture
How a place drinks reveals a good deal about it, and the conventions differ more than the drinks do.
Where to Stay
Booking platforms and what they do
The intermediaries between travellers and providers shape prices and choices in ways worth understanding.
Money
What travel actually costs over a lifetime
Treating travel as a budget line rather than as a series of decisions changes what becomes possible.
Flights & Transport
Getting between airports and cities
The first and last journey of any trip, frequently the most expensive per kilometre and the easiest to get wrong.
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The trip you actually want
Most itineraries are assembled from other people’s recommendations, which is why so many trips are competent and unmemorable.
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Travelling with parents and older relatives
Multigenerational trips have specific requirements, and most of the difficulty comes from unspoken expectations about pace.
Planning
Coming home and what to do with it
The return is planned less than the departure and matters more than people expect.
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Getting between airports and cities
The first and last journey of any trip, frequently the most expensive per kilometre and the easiest to get wrong.
Flights & Transport
Cruises, and what they actually involve
A distinct form of travel with specific advantages and a set of criticisms that are largely accurate.
Flights & Transport
Flying with less impact
Aviation emissions are a genuine problem with a small number of meaningful individual responses and a lot of ineffective ones.
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What travel actually costs over a lifetime
Treating travel as a budget line rather than as a series of decisions changes what becomes possible.
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Emergency money and what to do if it all goes
Losing cards, cash and documents simultaneously is recoverable, and the recovery depends on arrangements made beforehand.
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What things actually cost around the world
Cost of living comparisons are widely quoted and frequently misleading, and the useful comparison is narrower.