Europe

I’ll be honest with you: I almost didn’t go to Lisbon. Everyone I knew had been. It had become one of those cities people call “underrated” so frequently it no longer is. I worried I’d arrive somewhere over-touristed and overpriced, full of rooftop bars designed for Instagram and pastéis de nata sold to people who’d…

Paris has a reputation problem — in two opposite directions. Half the world romanticizes it to an impossible degree: the city of light, of love, of croissants eaten while gazing at the Eiffel Tower. The other half has turned Paris-skepticism into a personality trait: it’s dirty, the waiters are rude, it smells like cigarettes, it’s…