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THE TRAVEL TORTOISE

If you hate bucket lists, and prefer to travel rather than commute, then welcome to The Travel Tortoise - your home for sustainable travel and long-form destination guides.

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Who and what is The Travel Tortoise?

Hi, I’m James, aka ‘The Travel Tortoise’. A long-time nomad/gypsy/traveller I write destination guides and other resources about green(er) European travel. My natural instinct is to go off-the-beaten-path, so when researching trips abroad I got pretty tired of reading the same old generic content, hence The Travel Tortoise was born.

It may help to know that I’m more likely to be doing something food or wine related, or be out in nature, rather than gradually losing my will to live in an art gallery, or self-indulgent museum. As such, think of this travel blog as a ‘Philistine’s guide to….’ if you wish, and who knows, perhaps we’ll even level up our cultural game along the way?!

Whether it’s my home base in Vienna, further afield in Portugal or Italy, or less popular destinations in central Europe, wherever I go, I try to write informative, and sometimes silly travel guides to make you laugh and your travel planning easier. If all that sounds like your cup of tea, then dive in because there’s plenty here for you.

TTT on a day out

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