33 Kilometres Out: Getting from Trieste Airport to the City Picking the right Trieste Airport transfer starts with knowing the basic geography: Trieste Airport (TRS), officially Ronchi dei Legionari, ...
Trieste’s Port: A Terminal Right in the City Centre Unlike many Mediterranean ports tucked away in industrial zones, Trieste’s passenger terminal sits directly beside Piazza Unità d’...
Why Trieste Makes a Great Base for Day Trips Few Italian cities sit as close to another country as Trieste does. Tucked into the far northeastern corner of Italy, the city puts the Slovenian border wi...
Discover Trieste Trieste sits tucked into Italy’s northeastern corner, closer to Ljubljana than to Venice, where centuries as the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s principal port left the city wit...
Visby is the only real town on Gotland, Sweden’s largest island, and it happens to be one of the best-preserved medieval towns anywhere in Scandinavia. A ring of 13th and 14th-century limestone ...
Most German Christmas markets fill a city square. The one in the Ravenna Gorge fills a wooded ravine in the Black Forest, with wooden stalls set out directly beneath a working railway viaduct rather t...
Travellers who have just ridden the Bergen Line or the Flåm Railway and assume Norway’s rail network will simply carry them on to Stavanger are in for a surprise: there is no railway line connec...
The Faroe Islands are eighteen islands scattered across the North Atlantic, and seventeen of them are inhabited, but the tunnel network linking several of them together has only ever reached so far. W...
The Åland Islands are an autonomous, Swedish-speaking province of Finland scattered across more than 6,700 islands and skerries in the middle of the Baltic Sea, though in practice almost everything a ...
Gotland is Sweden’s largest island, sitting out in the Baltic Sea roughly 90km from the mainland, and there is really only one way to reach it by sea: a single operator, Destination Gotland, run...
Why Norway Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank Norway has a reputation as one of Europe’s most expensive countries to visit, and on restaurant menus and hotel rates alone, that reputation is fa...
Kaunas Airport and Its Ryanair Base Landing at Kaunas Airport means arriving at Lithuania’s second-busiest gateway, officially Kaunas International Airport and identified by the code KUN. It sit...
Tallinn is one of the easiest capital cities in the Baltics to explore without a car, and its compact medieval core means many visitors barely need transport at all for a short stay. The city’s ...
Riga is compact enough to cross on foot in an afternoon, yet its public transport network is genuinely impressive once you start relying on it. Rīgas satiksme, the city-owned operator, runs one of the...
Kiruna Airport is the small, single-runway gateway to Swedish Lapland, sitting far north of the Arctic Circle and built to serve a town of barely 20,000 people rather than a major city, so its termina...
Tartu is the city Estonians themselves tend to describe as the country’s true heart, even though Tallinn holds the title of capital. Home to the University of Tartu since 1632, it carries an unm...
Tallinn sits on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, and for a growing number of travellers each summer the first real sight of Estonia is the spire-studded skyline of the Old Town rising beyond...
In the far southeastern corner of Estonia, close to the village of Saatse in the Setomaa region, a short stretch of ordinary rural road once carried Estonian traffic briefly out of the European Union ...
Tallinn, Rīga and Vilnius sit within a few hundred kilometres of each other, yet no single transport system ties the three together in one smooth hop. There is still no finished high-speed rail line j...
Why Oulu Airport Matters for Northern Finland Travel Oulu Airport, coded OUL, is the main air gateway to Finland’s largest city north of Helsinki, and the natural entry point for anyone heading ...
Gothenburg sits at the point where Sweden’s west coast archipelago, the working Trollhätte Canal and the farmland of Västergötland all meet within roughly an hour’s travel, which makes it ...
Kiruna sits deep inside Swedish Lapland, roughly 145 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, and it has become one of the most talked-about towns in the Nordic north for reasons few other places can cl...
Daugavpils is Latvia’s second-largest city, sitting on the Daugava river in the Latgale region in the country’s far southeast. It sits close enough to both Belarus and Lithuania that eithe...
Liepāja is Latvia’s third-largest city, a working port on the Baltic coast around three hours from Riga, and one of the country’s most rewarding places to spend a slow few days away from t...
Narva is Estonia’s third largest city, sitting on the eastern bank of the Narva River exactly where the European Union and NATO end and Russia begins. Facing it across a few hundred metres of wa...
Klaipeda is Lithuania’s third-largest city and its only major seaport, a working harbour town on the Baltic coast where cargo ships and cruise liners share the water with a small passenger ferry...
Discovering Turku Turku is Finland’s oldest city and its former capital, sitting where the River Aura meets the Baltic on the country’s southwest coast. Long before Helsinki grew into the ...
Why Tampere Is Worth Visiting Tampere sits between two large lakes in the Finnish interior and feels very different from the coastal capital. The city grew up around red brick factories and rushing ra...
Oulu sits on the Gulf of Bothnia at roughly 65 degrees north, making it the largest city in northern Finland and a genuine mid-point between Helsinki and the Arctic. It has a reputation as a technolog...
Kaunas is Lithuania’s second-largest city and a place with real confidence in its own identity, sitting at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers roughly in the country’s geographi...
