Real trips · honest verdicts · two points of view
One city, two ways to see it — looking up and drinking down.
A married couple from Durham. Olesia walks a city looking up at old buildings, balconies and hidden courtyards. Ian finds where the city actually drinks. Together you get the whole trip.
Recent trips
Fresh from the road
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3 Days in Kraków: What Not to Miss
How to spend 3 days in Kraków: the Florian Gate, the Main Square, Wawel Hill, the salt mine…
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Kraków Christmas Market: What to Eat, What to Buy and When to Go
Kraków’s Christmas market fills the Main Square from late November. What to eat, what to buy, what it…
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Camden in One Day: Markets, Canals, Live Music and London’s Other Side
Camden is loud, crowded and a little bit mad, and it smells of eight different kitchens at once.…
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London Craft Beer, Compared: Sixteen Hammersmith and Camden Venues
Every craft beer venue from both London Taps posts in one table — sixteen places across Hammersmith and…
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Under the Arches: Camden’s Breweries and the Best Beer of the Trip
Two Camden breweries under the railway arches, the pub everyone wrongly credits to Amy Winehouse, and the best…
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Older Than America: Seven Hammersmith Pubs on the Thames
Seven Hammersmith pubs in one Saturday — four of them in 250 metres of Thames footpath, one licensed…
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Two travellers, one itinerary — one of us always ten minutes behind
We travel the way most people actually travel: a few days per city, a budget, weather that doesn’t cooperate, and two very different lists of priorities. This journal is what we wish existed before each trip — honest, experience-based and specific.
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In development
The Taps App — Ian’s beer map: every brewery and taproom from our travels, free of sponsored opinions.