Honest, opinionated, first-hand travel guides from The Wanderers World.https://thewanderers.world/en-gbhttps://thewanderers.world/guides/most-instagrammable-places-in-the-dolomites/https://thewanderers.world/guides/most-instagrammable-places-in-the-dolomites/Seceda, Lago di Sorapis, Tre Cime, Cadini di Misurina and Lago di Braies are the Dolomites at their most photographed. Here is how to actually reach each one, when to go to miss the crowds, and whether the shot is worth it.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-queen-of-the-dolomites-on-a-budget-how-we-do-cortina/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-queen-of-the-dolomites-on-a-budget-how-we-do-cortina/Cortina d’Ampezzo is the glamorous one. The Queen of the Dolomites, all designer shopfronts and Aperols on the Corso, and, this February, one of the host towns of the Winter Olympics.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-tre-cime-that-nobody-queues-for/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-tre-cime-that-nobody-queues-for/Tre Cime di Lavaredo is the postcard the entire Dolomites gets sold on. Three vast stone towers standing shoulder-to-shoulder, impossibly photogenic, impossibly famous.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/san-vigilio-di-marebbe-the-dolomite/https://thewanderers.world/guides/san-vigilio-di-marebbe-the-dolomite/There is a version of the Dolomites that runs at full volume: the famous passes, the headline peaks, the towns everyone has already heard of. I love that version (there's a whole Cortina piece coming to prove it). And then there is San VigiWed, 22 Jul 2026 06:01:13 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/loughrigg-fell-and-silver-how-when/https://thewanderers.world/guides/loughrigg-fell-and-silver-how-when/I set off from Grasmere in the rain. This is not an unusual situation in the Lake District and is rarely a reason not to go. Waterproofs on, head down, trust the forecast. By the time I reached the summit of Loughrigg Fell the cloud had lifWed, 24 Jun 2026 17:01:39 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/rannerdale-knotts/https://thewanderers.world/guides/rannerdale-knotts/Not every Wainwright needs to be an epic. Rannerdale Knotts is proof of that. At 355m it is one of the lowest fells in the books, a compact rocky summit sitting above the western shore of Crummock Water in the North Western Fells. It takes Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:01:31 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/40-life-lessons-i-learned-backpacking/https://thewanderers.world/guides/40-life-lessons-i-learned-backpacking/I left the UK with a 65 litre backpack, a can of mosquito spray I didn’t fully trust, and the quiet suspicion that I was probably a decade too late to be doing any of this. Four months later I came home lighter in every sense. Ten kilos on Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-st-johns-vale-skyline-four-wainwrights/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-st-johns-vale-skyline-four-wainwrights/I’m a quite a bit behind on publishing this one, which tells you something about how a good walk lingers. The St John’s Vale Skyline took us up Clough Head, Great Dodd, Watson’s Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd and Hart Side on a bitterly cold, crystalWed, 03 Jun 2026 17:01:58 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/lago-di-braies/https://thewanderers.world/guides/lago-di-braies/An easy loop around a very green lake in the Dolomites. Go early or go late, because the middle of the day is not the picture you have seen.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/48-hours-in-lisbon-a-city-that-actually/https://thewanderers.world/guides/48-hours-in-lisbon-a-city-that-actually/The premise of a 48-hour city guide is that you arrive on a Saturday evening, leave on a Tuesday morning, and try to make every minute count in between. Lisbon rewards this approach for the simple reason that it has an unusually low ratio oSun, 31 May 2026 07:02:53 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/baystones-wansfell-the-fell-above/https://thewanderers.world/guides/baystones-wansfell-the-fell-above/Not every Lake District day needs to be an epic. Sometimes you want a proper fell walk and a decent afternoon in a good town, and this is the route that gives you both. Baystones sits directly above Ambleside, reached via one of the most saWed, 20 May 2026 17:01:24 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/48-hours-in-sofia-a-city-that-keeps/https://thewanderers.world/guides/48-hours-in-sofia-a-city-that-keeps/The premise of a 48-hour city guide is that you arrive with a plan and leave with opinions. Sofia rewards this approach unusually well, partly because the city has not yet been comprehensively discovered by the kind of tourists who ruin citSun, 19 Apr 2026 17:01:11 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/grey-crag-and-tarn-crag-the-far-eastern/https://thewanderers.world/guides/grey-crag-and-tarn-crag-the-far-eastern/There’s a particular kind of Lake District walk that never makes it onto the glossy postcards. No dramatic ridge scrambles, no Instagram-famous tarns, no queue at the summit. Just you, a fence line, and a whole lot of open fell country thatWed, 01 Apr 2026 11:02:23 GMTHikinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-monastery-that-has-no-business/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-monastery-that-has-no-business/There’s a particular experience that repeats itself every time you stumble upon something genuinely extraordinary on a group tour. You arrive. You’re given forty-five minutes. You are funnelled past the highlights, gently steered away from Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:42:02 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/why-you-should-skip-the-alps-this/https://thewanderers.world/guides/why-you-should-skip-the-alps-this/There’s a pattern that plays out every January. Skiers in the Alps post pictures of slush, bare patches, and queue systems that look like airport security during the school holiday. Meanwhile, a little further north, much further north, in Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:01:52 GMTSkiinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/learning-to-board-a-lesson-in-free/https://thewanderers.world/guides/learning-to-board-a-lesson-in-free/I’ve always been more of a summer holiday kind of person. Warm weather, beaches, city breaks—those are in my comfort zone. But this year, I decided to step WAY outside of it.Sat, 24 May 2025 09:11:16 GMTSkiinghttps://thewanderers.world/guides/a-once-in-a-lifetime-european-road/https://thewanderers.world/guides/a-once-in-a-lifetime-european-road/Some of the best adventures start with nothing more than a vague idea, a map, and a heading; South.Sat, 10 May 2025 09:01:37 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/imola-an-all-time-great/https://thewanderers.world/guides/imola-an-all-time-great/Ever wondered what it's like to stand at the edge of one of the most legendary circuits in motorsport history?Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:30:16 GMTMotorsporthttps://thewanderers.world/guides/exploring-the-grand-circuit-of-siem/https://thewanderers.world/guides/exploring-the-grand-circuit-of-siem/Having not ridden my bike in over 4-months I was embarking on a journey of the unknown, both physically and spiritually, through the Grand Circuit of Siem Reap's temples. It is a mesmerising adventure into Cambodia’s history and architecturSat, 05 Apr 2025 09:05:59 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-ultimate-3-day-singapore-itinerary/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-ultimate-3-day-singapore-itinerary/We rounded off our 2024 travels in Singapore, somewhere that had been on our bucket-list for a number of years and a country we’re so glad to have had the opportunity to visit.Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:03:07 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-enchantment-of-japan/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-enchantment-of-japan/Being the millennial that I am, I was recently sat scrolling through Threads when I saw a post asking what foreigners find so fascinating about Japan.Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:03:54 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/the-real-life-phoenix-from-the-flames/https://thewanderers.world/guides/the-real-life-phoenix-from-the-flames/Hiroshima became the first military target of a nuclear weapon being used in warfare, the second Nagasaki following just a few days later.Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:01:26 GMTCity & Culturehttps://thewanderers.world/guides/tokyo-old-and-new/https://thewanderers.world/guides/tokyo-old-and-new/And whilst the colourful advertising boards of Shibuya, the craziness of Akhihabara and the busy, bustling streets around the city will make your trip feel complete, there is so much more to Tokyo that you think.Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:50:17 GMTCity & Culture