Everywhere we have been.
14 places across two written-up trips, each one linked to its guide. Places we have visited but not yet written up are not on here — they go on when the guide does.
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- Andalusia7 guidesanchored on the Alhambra, Granada
- Morocco5 guidesanchored on Marrakech
- SantoriniGreece · next up, 13 trips so faranchored on the caldera
- Puglia6 guidesanchored on the trulli of Alberobello
- Dubaicoming soonanchored on Dubai
- Been there, not written11 more cities and islandsLondon, Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Varna, Sofia, Istanbul, Barcelona, Sardinia, Crete
The whole trip: Andalusia in 10 Days →
Seville
Andalusia's capital, and the one city on this trip that needs three full days. The Alcázar, the largest Gothic cathedral on earth and the Setas viewing deck all sit within a twenty-minute walk of each other.
Córdoba
A one-day city built around one extraordinary building — a mosque with a cathedral standing inside it. The Mezquita is free for an hour every morning, which is the best-value hour in Andalusia.
Granada
The Alhambra, and the city underneath it. It is the hardest ticket in Spain, with two rules that get people turned away at the door.
Málaga
A working port city that turned out to be the best base in the region — two Moorish fortresses, a one-armed cathedral, and every day trip within an hour's drive.
Caminito del Rey
A metre-wide walkway bolted to a cliff a hundred metres above the Gaitanes gorge. It has to be booked weeks ahead and it is one-way only.
Ronda
A town on a plateau cut in half by a gorge a hundred metres deep, with three bridges across it and the oldest bullring in Spain.
Setenil de las Bodegas
A village built into the overhang of a rock, where the cliff itself is the roof of the houses and the street runs underneath it.
Colomares Castle
A castle finished in the 1990s as a monument to Christopher Columbus, built in four architectural styles at once and almost unknown.
Gibraltar
A British peninsula at the bottom of Spain, with two hundred wild macaques on the Rock above it. Take the minibus, not the cable car.
The whole trip: Morocco in 8 Days →
Marrakech
The trip starts and ends here. Jemaa el-Fna is a market square a thousand years old that turns into a grid of open-air kitchens after dark.
Aït Benhaddou
A fortified earthen village on the old caravan route over the High Atlas, on the UNESCO list since 1987 and largely abandoned by the people who built it.
Erg Chebbi
The dunes at Merzouga, reached by camel at sunset and left by camel at sunrise. In late December the sun breaks the crest just after 08:15.
Fes
The oldest medina in the world, and one with almost nothing officially published about it — no ticket office, no opening hours, no tariffs.
Chefchaouen
A town in the Rif mountains where every wall, step and doorframe is painted blue. Three hours from Fes is enough to see it, not to sit in it.
The whole trip: Puglia in 4 Days →
Polignano a Mare
A beach at the bottom of a ravine, a €40 tuk-tuk tour, and the quiet cove with a boat full of books.
Alberobello
Sixteen hundred stone cones, a night inside one of them, and the half hour after the coaches leave.
Zoosafari Fasanolandia
You drive your own car through it, goats, zebras, ponies and deer come right up to the windows, and that is why we took the full insurance.
Matera
A city cut downward into a ravine — the cistern, the terraces at dusk, and a cave house people lived in until the 1950s.
Bari
Pasta made in the street, the bones of Saint Nicholas, and an old town that is better after dark.
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Geography and every pin position are carried over from our own map; the landmarks are anchored on real places — the Alhambra, Marrakech, the trulli of Alberobello, Santorini and Dubai — projected through the same grid.
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