World Travel Tips

This is a nice place. Normally, people love this place. People go there and come back as a completely different person. Also people like the Neapolitan pizza here. If you are thinking that should toy go there or not? I can answer it confidently that you must go there. Just go. You can thank me later. Here is literally everything you need to know before you do. Best Time to Visit Italy Now what is the best time to visit this country: Spring (April to June): This is the one. Perfect weather, flowers bloom everywhere, not yet overrun by summer tourists. If you can go in spring, go in spring. Summer (July to August): Hot, sweaty, absolutely packed, and somehow still great if you like beaches. Just be prepare yourself for the crowds. Autumn (September to October): Criminally underrated. Warm but not suffocating, quieter, and food and wine season is in full swing. Honestly might be even better than spring. Do not tell spring I said tha...

I was never a hiking person. Like genuinely never. I used to see those people with their trekking poles and their trail mix and their very strong opinions about waterproof jackets and think — what are you doing. There is a couch. There is air conditioning. There is literally no reason to do this to yourself. Then someone dragged me on a hike against my better judgment. And somewhere around hour three — legs on fire, slightly furious, questioning every decision that led me to this moment — my brain just... stopped. The places you can visit are: Everest Base Camp, Nepal First time I heard someone casually mentioned doing this trek. I assumed that they were an athlete. Or lying. They were a teacher. With bad knees. Who trained for four months and just went and did it. She came back and said something I think about all the time — "it was so big I forgot how to worry. For two whole weeks." Two whole weeks of your brain going: too massive, can't stress, just loo...

I've tried to explain Japan to like six different people this week and every single time I get this look — the polite smile, the nodding, the "oh that sounds amazing" — and I can tell they think I'm just doing the thing people do when they get back from a trip. The overselling. The vacation goggles. I almost didn't go. Like, four times. The visa thing stressed me out. The flights are long and expensive. I kept telling myself I'd go "when things calmed down" which is the biggest lie we tell ourselves because things never calm down, nothing calms down, that's not how life works. And then one night I was just sitting there at like 11pm, slightly tired, slightly restless, and I opened a browser and just... booked it. Didn't sleep-on-it. Didn't make a pros and cons list. Just did it. My friend said "you're going to regret not going sooner" and I was like okay sure, travel wisdom, very helpful. She was completely right a...

I will say something that might sound dramatic: Switzerland broke something in me. Not in a bad way. In the way that happens when you see a place so beautiful that your brain quietly files everything else under "lesser." I went for ten days. I've been low-key bitter about leaving ever since. Here's what's actually worth your time — and a few things nobody mentions before you go. Zermatt — You Have Seen This Mountain Your Whole Life. It's Still a Shock. The Matterhorn is on Swiss chocolate. It's on screensavers. It's been in the background of thousands of travel photos you've scrolled past without a second thought. Then you turn a corner in Zermatt and it is just there — and your brain genuinely struggles to accept it as real. This is too pointed, symmetrical, and too dramatic. It seems to be something that has grown out of the earth. Zermatt is car-free, and this sounds minor until you have experienced that how much different a place fee...

You land in Turkey, step outside, and within 20 minutes you are eating something incredible for $2 while staring at a building and that is literally 1500 years old. It is that kind of place. Also significantly cheaper than anywhere else you are probably considering. Just go and enjoy there. 1. Istanbul Istanbul is a lot. In the best way. It's loud and chaotic and you will get slightly lost and that's fine, that's kind of the whole point. Do the ferry across the Bosphorus early on — costs almost nothing, great views, and you can say you crossed from Europe into Asia on a boat which is a fun thing to tell people. Hagia Sophia actually lives up to the hype, which not many things do. Blue Mosque is right next door so just do both — one morning, done. Topkapi Palace is worth it if Ottoman history is your thing, easy to skip if it's not. Food though. This is the reason you are here. Breakfast is a simit from a street cart — sesame bread ring, sounds boring, tastes gen...

Honestly, before I did not want to go to Maldives. The flights were long, the resorts looked expensive there. I had spent so much time seeing the Maldives. But now I had convinced myself it was one of those places that exists purely for the photo. Beautiful background, overpriced drinks, nothing actually special about it once you get past the pictures. My friend called me idiot for thinking like that. Now I realized that she was right. It is small island country in the Indian Ocean. It is made up of more than 1000 islands scattered across a very large stretch of water. Some islands are big enough to have actual towns on them. Others are so tiny that a single resort takes up the whole thing. What all of them share is the water — clear, warm, alive, and surrounding you completely no matter where you look. Being there does something to you. Something quiet and hard to explain. You arrive as one version of yourself and leave as a slightly slower, slightly calmer version. In a good way....