Plan your next trip with the Karel 2.0 online planner - it's a breeze.
Poland is just around the corner and will surprise you more than you expect. It’s not just Auschwitz and Warsaw it’s a country with an incredible history. Great cuisine, affordable prices, and natural beauty that stretches from the Baltic Sea to the Tatra Mountains. What to see in Poland depends on what you’re looking for in your trip.
In this section, you’ll find a guide to Kraków and its Old Town, tips for exploring Warsaw beyond the typical tourist circuit. And recommendations for Gdańsk, Wrocław, and Poznań. But you’ll also find tips for Poland’s mountains the Tatras and the Beskids the Masurian Lakes, and historic sites that serve as reminders of what Poland has been through. We write honestly even about difficult places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, which are worth visiting, even if it’s not an easy experience.
Ad space: Poland is one of the most affordable destinations in Europe. We search for accommodations on Booking.com and book guided tours such as historical tours and trips to Vislicko or Wieliczka through GetYourGuide.
Poland deserves more attention than it usually gets. Come see for yourself and bring your appetite for pierogi.
Destinations are at the heart of this blog. We’ve visited every place we write about ourselves we don’t copy anything from Wikipedia, and we don’t sugarcoat our experiences to make them sound like a “great vacation.” We write about what we saw, what went well, and what we’d do differently next time.
In this section, you’ll find guides to destinations from around the world Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. From major cities to national parks to coastal villages that haven’t yet been overrun by tourists. Each destination has its own section with tips on accommodations, transportation, food, and activities organized to save you time, not add to your worries.
Ad space: When planning our accommodations, we rely on Booking.com, we book guided tours through GetYourGuide, and we always compare flight prices on KAYAK. This isn’t an advertisement it’s just what we use ourselves.
Choose a continent, country, or city and start planning. Or just let yourself be inspired that’s a good place to start, too.
We came to Katowice mainly as a transfer stop on the way somewhere else. But the city centre personally stopped me in my tracks – in a good way. I expected a grey industrial city and got a lively centre that breathes at first glance, and when I saw old...
We’re writing this one differently from the rest. No funny detours. Auschwitz is a place that doesn’t deserve that tone, and yet we wanted to write a guide that helps you handle the visit both practically and humanly. Because here too, good preparation makes the difference between standing confused at...
It was March 2022 and my colleagues and I were planning our annual nomad trip. The choice fell on Sicily. We booked flights from Vienna to Catania and believed it would be ‘a nice trip to Italy’. Except Sicily isn’t Italy. Or rather – it’s more than Italy. This article...
There are places that leave you in peace. The Aeolian Islands aren’t among them. Just as the Egadi Islands [read more in our guide to the Egadi Islands] left a brutal impression on us, so did the Aeolians. This is where we got up at 3:55 in the morning to...
In 2022 I wrote to myself that I had no expectations of Taormina. Since then I’ve been there 3 times, always out of season, and I’m always glad to go back. For those epic views of Etna and the climb up to the very top of the town. That’s exactly...
Catania waited a long time for tourists. Palermo was always the first choice, Taormina the postcard star. But Catania – Sicily’s second-largest city – is slowly making its case as perhaps the most honest of the three. On every visit we flew into Catania and took our trips from there....
Want to save money when buying flights? We’ve put together a detailed comparison of flight search engines to help you find the best prices. When you’re after the best price and aren’t tied to a particular airline, you should use flight search engines that show you offers from a range...
We came to Katowice mainly as a transfer stop on the way somewhere else. But the city centre personally stopped me in my tracks – in a good way. I expected a grey industrial city and got a lively centre that breathes at first glance, and when I saw old...
