5 WAYS TO WANDER: A Rule to Break and A City to Love
7 February, 2025 | Welcome to 5 Ways to Wander. Here are five fresh ideas to inspire your next adventure!
#1 This Week’s Travel Hack:
Discover Europe on foot. Many European cities are best explored walking, with compact layouts and rich history around every corner.
While public transport everywhere is brilliant, cities like Bruges, Salzburg, and Dubrovnik are almost entirely walkable. Expand this to places like Florence, where every street feels like an open-air museum, or Tallinn, where cobblestone lanes transport you to medieval times.
So when in Europe, if you can, get those steps in.
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#2 Destination of the Week:
Budapest, Hungary. Some cities have grand architecture. Others have wild nightlife. Budapest has both… plus thermal baths to recover from the latter.
The city is split in two: Buda, with its hilltop castles and sweeping Danube river views, and Pest, which serves up killer nightlife and ‘ruin bars’ in abandoned buildings.
Spend your morning soaking in Ottoman-era thermal pools, have brunch in a sidewalk cafe, and end the night with a drink in a fairy-lit courtyard that looks like it shouldn’t still be standing (but somehow is).
And whatever you do, don’t leave without trying Lángos. It tastes rich, crispy, and impossible to forget.
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#3 Cultural Insight:
The Italian Cappuccino Rule. Order a cappuccino after 11 a.m. in Italy, and you might get exasperated sighs, or sullen looks of disappointment.
Italians see milk-heavy coffees as a breakfast indulgence, best enjoyed with a cornetto (Italian croissant). By afternoon, it’s all about espresso – quick, strong, and to the point.
And there’s logic here. Milk is considered too heavy for digestion later in the day.
So if you want to blend in, save the cappuccino for breakfast and switch to an espresso after lunch. Of course, if you really want that frothy cup at 3 p.m., no one will judge you… except for the 20 horrified locals around. Saluti! 🤌
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#4 Travel Quote to Ponder:
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
― Susan Sontag
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#5 Question for You:
What’s a travel experience you thought would be amazing but actually wasn’t?
((For me it was going to the Oktoberfest in Munich.)
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