The holiday journal
Choose a country or region by the kind of holiday it supports, including the journeys and daily costs around your stay.
Choosing one Greek island can feel less ambitious than island-hopping, yet it often produces more of the holiday people actually want: unhurried meals, familiar beaches and fewer mornings spent beside luggage.
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Spain is large enough that a bargain room in each famous city can still produce an expensive vacation.
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Italy's rail connections make a multi-city vacation possible, but they do not remove the work of changing hotels.
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A regional France vacation should not begin with the assumption that anywhere outside Paris is automatically inexpensive.
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Scotland's cities and rural landscapes can belong in the same vacation without requiring a rental car for every night.
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A lower-driving holiday in Wales begins with choosing a base that has useful transport, not simply an attractive cottage.
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An Ireland holiday can become expensive through movement rather than sightseeing.
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The Canary Islands are not one interchangeable beach destination.
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Madeira's scenery can make accommodation look closer to everything than it is.
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An Azores vacation does not need to become an archipelago survey.
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Japan's trains make ambitious routes tempting.
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Seoul plus one regional stay is a useful first South Korea itinerary because it provides contrast without demanding a new hotel every day.
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