Barcelona, Rome,
Paris, London

We sat down with the people who know these cities before writing a word of this.

Julian, who did Europe two summers running. Trace and Dr. Leticia, who go every year. What they told us over those long dinners went into every page here, and then we checked all of it. Every city has its own page: the days laid out, how you get there, where people actually eat. Every day has its own too. An hour by hour walking plan with the reasoning, the food and why, the tickets to hold, and a space that fills in later with what happened and the photos. Read it now. Read it again on the plane. Follow it on the ground.

The eighteen days