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City Review • 10 min read August 25, 2025

Copenhagen: Best Nordic Capital but Crazy Expensive

I spent five days in Copenhagen in late March 2025, and the weather was actually quite good, which was nice. I wanted to check out...

10 min read • Aug 25, 2025

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City Review • 10 min read August 23, 2025

Bali: Instagram Paradise or Harsh Reality Check?

Bali isn’t the place you imagine. It’s not the place that travel blogs or Instagram influencers gave you the idea of. Bali is one of...

10 min read • Aug 23, 2025

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City Review • 10 min read August 23, 2025

Wrocław: The Solid Polish City That Never Quite Captured My Heart

I spent a month in Wrocław in October 2019, my third Polish city after Kraków and Warsaw. I got an Airbnb right in the center...

10 min read • Aug 23, 2025

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City Review • 10 min read August 22, 2025

“Rome: Tourist City or Living Museum?

I spent a few days in Rome in May 2023, figured I had to check out the Eternal City at least once. Everyone talks about...

10 min read • Aug 22, 2025

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City Review • 9 min read August 22, 2025

Cologne: Epic Cathedral in a Soul-Crushing German Wasteland

I spent two days in Cologne in July 2020, figuring I should check out one of Germany’s bigger cities while I was in the area....

9 min read • Aug 22, 2025

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City Review • 10 min read August 21, 2025

Tampere, Finland: A City That Didn’t Quite Win Me Over

I spent 6 weeks in Tampere from September to October 2023, right after spending the summer in Helsinki. I figured I should try another Finnish...

10 min read • Aug 21, 2025

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City Review • 9 min read August 20, 2025

Łódź, Poland: The Gritty Post-Industrial City

After my month in Wrocław, I headed to Łódź for a week. It’s about an hour from Warsaw, so it seemed like a logical stop...

9 min read • Aug 20, 2025

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City Review • 9 min read August 20, 2025

Utrecht: The Perfectly Cozy Dutch City That’s Expensive as Hell

I went to Utrecht for just a day in August 2020, and honestly, it was a really nice surprise. It’s a Dutch city that has...

9 min read • Aug 20, 2025

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City Review • 11 min read August 20, 2025

Oslo — Not Bad, Not Amazing, Just Oslo

I’ve been in Oslo for two months – May and June 2025 – basically because I couldn’t secure good long-term accommodation in Stockholm. I said...

11 min read • Aug 20, 2025

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City Review • 8 min read August 19, 2025

Fukuoka: Basically Tokyo But Smaller (And You Can Skip It)

I was in Fukuoka for just two days in March 2018, again because of a Navy deployment. Our ship was stationed at the US naval...

8 min read • Aug 19, 2025

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