Expat travel tips and advice from Dispatches Europe

13/07/2025

Modern, yet exotic, Vietnam is becoming the affordable destination for expats and Digital Nomads. Nguyen Khanh Huyen has the details from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Lat.

With affordable, yet sophisticated, cities, Vietnam is becoming an expat hotspot as well as a destination for Digital Nomads.

13/07/2025

There are a million reasons to go to Italy, so why do visitors always go to the same few places? Here are our favourite ways to shake up your Italian itinerary.

12/07/2025

Best places to live in London, a changing Croatia, summer travel across Europe and, as always, tech. We pack a lot into a week.

12/07/2025

If you think of Brussels as the stuffy home of a bunch of tired diplomats, it’s time to update your priors: The party-happy Belgian capital has the largest share of young citizens in the European Union, followed by Paris and Dublin.

Brussels, with the largest share of young citizens in the E.U., offers genre-defining restaurants and mind-bending museums of fine art.

12/07/2025

A volcanic eruption sank Aenaria nearly 2,000 years ago. Now, underwater tours and ongoing excavations are bringing Ischia's fascinating history back to the surface.

11/07/2025

Sarah Nagaty in Lisbon says travel was putting a dent in her budget. Then she discovered Home Exchange ....

Home Exchange lets you to stay in someone’s house while they stay at yours (and neither party pays anything). It also allows for non-simultaneous exchange.

10/07/2025

A 1.5-hour drive from Lisbon, the beach town of Nazaré is known for the “Big Wave”—a towering wall of water that looks like something out of the 2000 film The Perfect Storm.

Once a quiet fishing village, Nazaré, Portugal, is home to some of the world's largest rideable waves, reaching up to 100 feet. Learn more about this destination, what causes these massive waves, and when is the best time to view them.

08/07/2025

Governments love the income from tourism, but it’s getting too much for people living in the most popular destinations.

06/07/2025

Budget airline Ryanair has called on EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to take urgent action.

05/07/2025

Greece is an incredibly popular destination with expats from the US, UK and many other countries in Europe and beyond. If you want to understand both the pluses and minuses of this sunny land, Greek-American Joanna Kalafatis has an overview. That, kids in the Netherlands and a curated compilation of our best posts on Digital Nomads all in this week's newsletter.

05/07/2025

From a nine-month trek to a 20,000-mile motorcycle odyssey, these books will transport you across continents encourage you to see the world differently.

04/07/2025

The Netherlands is one of the most kid-friendly societies in the world, with theme parks, zoos, museums focused on children and so many other experiences. American in the Netherlands Lane Henry has a curated list.

Kids in the Netherlands have it made, with every kind of experience from theme parks to kid-friendly museums to interactive zoos.