The 46-minute TGV ride from Paris to Reims is one of the great underused shortcuts in European travel and most people who take it still manage…
Author: Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks is a travel journalist and photographer based in Austin, Texas. He has covered adventure destinations, travel gear, food tourism, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia for over a decade. His guides focus on honest, experience-based advice for serious travelers.
Burgundy doesn’t reward guesswork. Book the wrong tour format, choose the wrong base city, or land in the wrong sub-region and you’ll spend a full day…
The Douro Valley sits 90 minutes east of Porto, yet most travelers spend two hours on Google trying to figure out how to get there, which…
Fifty-four countries. Thousands of ethnic groups. And somehow, “African food” gets treated like a single restaurant category. That’s the gap this guide closes. American travelers who…
Bobotie tastes nothing like what its ingredients suggest. Spiced mince, dried fruit, egg custard, and curry powder sound like a culinary experiment but the result is…
Reykjavik has exactly one Michelin-starred restaurant per 43,000 residents. That ratio puts it ahead of Paris, Copenhagen, and Tokyo on a per-capita basis yet most travelers…
We’ve seen travelers land in Iceland completely unprepared for the food. One look at “fermented shark” and Iceland has a food reputation problem. Fermented shark and…
Planning a trip around food sounds simple until you realize no single resource tells you which wine region is worth $150 of your budget, which food…
South Africa is the only country where you can watch a leopard at dawn, drink world-class Chenin Blanc by noon, and stand on a mountain overlooking…
Bad luggage doesn’t wait until you’re home to punish you. It punishes you at the gate, at baggage claim, and somewhere between terminal three and a…