Tesla’s Supercharger network makes long-distance electric travel remarkably easy. Its Trip Planner is less convincing. By optimising relentlessly for charging speed, it can turn a journey into a sequence of brief, inconvenient stops while burying better options in a confusing interface. Tesla understands batteries brilliantly. It should spend a little more time understanding travellers.
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Zürich Has Started Shouting at Drivers in Yellow Paint
Zürich’s streets increasingly resemble a planning department’s art-school phase: green bands, giant bicycles, cheerful colours and enough visual guidance to leave ordinary road users more confused than informed. When every marking wants attention, clarity is inevitably the first casualty.
A Word in Albania’s Defence
Albania is not the easiest country to travel through, but perhaps that is part of its appeal. Beyond the erratic driving and uneven infrastructure are dramatic mountains, clear seas, excellent food, surprisingly good wine and, above all, remarkable warmth. We went for a wedding and came home with a much broader affection for the country itself.
Travel Broadens the Mind. Getting Home Tests It.
A magnificent wedding in Albania was followed by a journey home seemingly designed to test patience, infrastructure, border control, traffic planning and basic faith in humanity. From Tirana queue warfare to Zürich bureaucracy, cancelled Ubers and supermarket inspections, the day became an escalating comedy of inconvenience, until someone else’s travel disaster made mine look almost civilised.
Zurich’s Quiet War on the Car
Zurich’s Rämistrasse and Universitätstrasse have become a lesson in how to discourage cars without formally banning them. Poorly coordinated lights, repeated zebra crossings, permanent stop-and-go traffic and cyclists treating tram tracks as an overtaking lane turn a major route into a daily exercise in frustration, all while motorists face the strictest enforcement.
The unfair Beauty of Summer in Zurich
In Switzerland, spring does not gently become summer. It switches. Suddenly the lake is no longer scenery, the Limmat becomes part of the day, and Zurich turns into something almost unfair: international yet intimate, efficient yet relaxed, urban yet surrounded by water, hills and colour. In early summer, beauty is not a destination here. It becomes part of ordinary life.
Booking.com — Flights are a Trap, and Vueling is the perfect Airline for It
Booking.com turned a simple flight booking into a bureaucratic ambush, while Vueling treated standard cabin baggage like an optional luxury. Hidden details, broken post-booking clarity, useless support, and a dead-end check-in process turned an ordinary trip to Barcelona into a perfect case study in how not to treat customers.
The EU’s Singing Christmas Car… and other Automotive Nightmares
There was a time, legend has it, when a driver was considered a person capable of operating a vehicle using a combination of skill, awareness, and a driver’s license. A document explicitly confirming one’s ability to steer a machine without…
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When Background Music Becomes Musical Wallpaper — and Why It’s a Crime Against Music
Music matters to me. Deeply. It is not just something pleasant in the background. It is a passion, a lifelong companion and often a source of pure joy. I love music across genres: Soul, Jazz, Experimental Fusion and yes, I…
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Swiss Premium: The Perfect Illusion of a Flight Nation
There are countries that travel efficiently. And then there’s Switzerland: A nation that supposedly invented efficiency but somehow lost it completely at Zurich Airport. Welcome to the Security Check Museum The experience begins with a trip back in time. Two…
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