Slow Europe Travel,
Without The Queues
If you’re travelling to line up for a viral dessert, fly for a 24-hour city break or visit a historic monument just for the selfie, save your time and skip this website altogether.
But if you want to slowly experience the authentic soul of Europe without the crowds, you’re in the right place.
We’ll show you how to see, feel and taste the real Europe, mingle naturally with locals, support neighbourhood economies and savour every single moment at your own pace, without missing the emblematic landmarks.
Hi, we’re Katerina & Maria!
We’ve been publishing comprehensive travel guides and other free resources for almost a decade, always with slow, ethical and sustainable travel in mind.
But let’s drop the marketing buzzwords and textbook definitions. How does that translate into an actual trip?
Here’s how: by swapping frantic checklists for slow, unhurried journeys, keeping the iconic landmarks but skipping the exhausting crowds.
On our website, you’ll still find all the practical tools you need to build a trip from scratch, including detailed road trip and city itineraries or shopping, food and accommodation guides; but with a twist.
We take a different route
We skip the rushed weekend breaks that involve flying across Europe for a 24-hour stay, focusing on immersive, longer journeys instead.
We’ll show you how to experience mainstream European landmarks crowd-free by visiting in the off-season or with local small-group tours.
Instead of multinational hotel chains and all-inclusive resorts, we focus entirely on boutique, family-owned stays.
You won’t find viral cake shops or restaurants requiring a table reservation three months in advance here, but independent eateries where you can eat like a local.
Our food guides are 100% vegetarian, because keeping meat off the menu is the simplest, most effortless way to care for animals and protect the environment.
Everything on this website is backed by in-depth insider knowledge from the countries we’ve actually lived in, like our home country, Greece, and the country our hearts adopted, Italy.
The best part? All this isn’t just good for the planet. For you, it means an infinitely better trip. Less time spent in lines, more meaningful immersion in the culture and a slow pace that allows you to truly connect with each destination.
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There’s ten years’ worth of content from our travels around Europe and beyond on this website!
Custom Trip Planning
Our free resources is a great place to start and there’s nothing we enjoy more than helping you plan your own trips.
Yet, at some point, we realised that things got quite hectic, mainly due to post-COVID revenge travel and overtourism fuelled by social media.
So, we decided to take things a step further by launching our custom itinerary planning and travel consulting services to help you even further towards a more immersive, meaningful way to travel, away from saturated destinations and cookie-cutter experiences.
Our custom trip planning services ensure you enjoy the vacation of your dreams through the eyes of two well-travelled locals, in destinations we’ve actually lived in.
But do you really need someone else to plan your trips?
The short answer is yes; or, at least, it makes life a lot easier. Working with us lets you skip straight to the good part while we handle the logistics. Here’s why:
Time is gold
If you’ve ever planned a trip, you know how much time goes into research. Not to mention the inevitable stress that comes with opening dozens of browser tabs at the same time. Hiring us to craft a customised itinerary for you means saving invaluable time, combatting information overload and avoiding decision fatigue.
We’re not chatbots
A recent trend is to consult AI for upcoming trips. But this practice comes with a significant risk. AI is very likely to give you outdated information that can ruin your vacation or worse. In contrast, we’ve been to those places and our human-crafted itineraries are sprinkled with all the Un-Googleable advice only locals can offer.
For the conscious explorer
In the post-COVID era, travel has become more intentional and regenerative. Our travel planning services aim at slow travel and cultural immersion rather than fast-paced sightseeing. With us, you can avoid the crowds by swapping popular destinations for lesser-known ones or planning your trip in the low season.
Thank you for joining us on this journey. Happy travels!
