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Help

How to use the site, and the questions people actually ask.

How to use this site

  • If you know where you are going — search, or go straight to countries. Every place is four clicks from the homepage.
  • If you know what you want but not wherediscover sorts Europe by what you travel for, and themes ignore borders entirely.
  • If you know when you are freethe European year has a page per month that also says where is good in it.
  • If you have days and a budgetthe planner takes a sentence or a form and returns a route with a cost estimate.

Common questions

Can I book anything here?

No, and not by accident: there is no payment surface anywhere on the site and no company behind it yet. What is built, designed and blocked →

How accurate is this?

It is a considered editorial first draft that has not been verified source by source. The board says so per country →

Why are there no photographs?

Because none is licensed yet, and the register that would hold one is empty. What you see instead is geography: a country drawn from its own outline, a journey drawn as its route, a tag drawn as every destination carrying it. Where there is nothing real to draw, the illustration is generated from the place's own name — no licence to expire, no stock library, and no risk of publishing somebody's holiday photograph. Where the geography comes from →

Why are the local-currency figures marked indicative?

Because they are. The rates are recorded by hand, dated on this page, rounded hard, and not refreshed automatically. They exist so that "€90 a day" in Norway means something to you before you arrive — not so that you can budget to the krone. Your bank's rate will be worse than the one used here, and the date will keep getting older until there is a live feed and somebody paying for it.

Where did my saved places go?

They live in the browser you saved them in and nowhere else. A different browser, a private window or cleared site data means an empty list — which is the cost of not having an account system, and we think it is the right trade for now.

Why is my country's page thin?

Italy, Norway, Spain, France and Greece are written deepest: between 67 and 86 recorded destinations, places and things to do each, where the median country holds 7. The rest are at a solid first pass, and the freshness board says when each country's practical facts were last checked.