
Greece: The Ferry Timetable Decides Your Itinerary
Greek island-hopping looks free-form on a map and is in fact tightly constrained by which islands connect to which.

Greek island-hopping looks free-form on a map and is in fact tightly constrained by which islands connect to which.

Spain is far larger than most itineraries assume, and its regions differ enough that covering four in a week means seeing none.

The standard Italy itinerary moves every two nights, which spends most of the trip checking in and out.

Vietnam runs 1,650 kilometres north to south and has three separate climates, so there is no single best month.

Rome needs about five decisions made in advance, and everything else can be worked out on the day.

Lisbon's charm is built on seven steep hills and slippery paving, which is a different proposition with a pushchair.

A 48-hour Bangkok stop works well if you accept that the city's geography makes one of the two days a river day.

Mexico is nearly four times the size of Germany and the YucatΓ‘n has almost nothing in common with Oaxaca or Baja.

Everyone's first Japan trip is the same three cities, and the country's most distinctive regions are the ones nobody reaches.

Turkey is the size of France and Germany combined, and cheap internal flights are what turn that from a problem into an itinerary.

Thailand's two coasts have opposite rainy seasons, which means the month you go decides which half of the country you see.

Japan rewards booking in a specific sequence, and the things that sell out are rarely the ones people worry about.