Three Days in Gdansk, Poland
Of all the cities on our Polish road trip, Gdansk is the one that I squirreled away the most time for, taking advantage of the fact that I was planning this trip and my family was not.…
26 Things to Do in Łódź
It was only after I booked my weekend in Łódź that I realized what a raging debate surrounds this Polish city. While some have hailed it as a success story, a failing industrial town revitalized into a…
One Day in Torun, Poland
While it may not get hyped up like tourist hotspots Krakow and Warsaw, Torun is famous for several things — gingerbread, Copernicus, and its stunning architecture, to name a few. With its inclusion on both the UNESCO…
Two Days in Wroclaw on a Polish Road Trip
Wroclaw, with its historic atmosphere but very local energy, is one of my favorite cities in Poland. Maybe I’m biased because I spent two months there in the summer of 2018, working on my Delta Module 2,…
The Best Cocktail Bars in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Listen, it wasn’t my plan to make it a boozy weekend in Saint Petersburg. I booked my train tickets with two intentions—One, to see Firebird at the Mariinsky Theatre because this girl loves a weird-o ballet. And…
17 Alternative European City Breaks
It started when I was fifteen. My aunt and I were embarking on a tour of Spain, two weeks of glorious sunshine to meander our way from Madrid, down along the Costa del Sol, up to Barcelona…