About
What this site is for
Practical answers to the questions that come up after the trip is already booked — written from primary sources, and dated.
What this site is for
Most travel writing answers where to go. This one answers how to behave once you are there — the small procedural things that are obvious to anyone who lives in a place and invisible in a guidebook. Whether to tip. Whether the tap water is fine. What to do with the ticket the machine by the door just printed.
None of these are hard questions. They are badly served ones: too small for a guidebook chapter, too specific for a general search, and usually answered by a forum thread from four years ago that three people are arguing about.
What it leaves out
No restaurant recommendations, no opening hours, no prices, no best-of lists. Not because those are useless, but because they stop being true. A page listing this year's fare is wrong next year, and a page that is wrong is worse than no page at all.
Everything covered here is chosen to still be correct in a few years: customs, etiquette, how paying works, what a procedure looks like from the inside. Where a topic is about to change, it waits until after the change rather than going out with a shelf life.
Where the answers come from
Answers are written from primary sources — tourism boards, city governments, transit operators, ministries. Every page carries the sources it was written from and the month it was last checked, at the bottom of the answer.
Anything that cannot be checked against one of those does not get published. Forum threads and comment sections are read to work out what people are confused about, never used as the source of an answer; an upvoted comment is one person's experience, which is a useful signal and a poor fact.
How this is funded
The site runs on advertising and on affiliate links for things worth arranging before a trip — connectivity, transit passes, airport transfers. Nothing here is a paid placement. A link that earns a commission does not change what an answer says, and an answer is never written because a link exists.
There are no accounts, no logins and no forms, and the site itself sets no cookies and stores nothing about you. The advertising is served by Google AdSense, which does set cookies in your browser; what it collects, and how to switch the personalised part of it off, is set out in full on the privacy page.
Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licence listed beside each one on the image credits page.