Do It Yourself
Planning a trip yourself: budgets, bookings, routes and the decisions that are hard to undo.
How to Budget a Trip That Survives Contact With Reality
Daily averages are the wrong unit. Budget by region, separate the fixed costs from the daily ones, and put 15 per cent aside for the things you cannot predict.
How to Choose Where to Go
Most people choose a destination from photographs and then discover the season is wrong, the budget does not stretch and the thing they liked takes four days to reach.
How to Find Somewhere to Stay
When to book ahead and when not to, the difference between the booking sites and the property's own price, and the local rules that make a listing illegal.
How to Plan a Round-the-World Trip
The decisions that are expensive to change: direction, seasons, visas and how you buy the flights. Get those four right and the rest is improvisation.
Travelling Long Distances with Children
Children make a trip slower, cheaper in some ways and more expensive in others, and they get you talked to everywhere. The logistics are the manageable part.