My Travel Background
The way I travel has changed over the years. I started with student Interrail trips across Europe, followed by music festivals and short road trips. Later I travelled more often on weekend city breaks, and today many of my trips are planned around family travel.
These different types of trips have taught me that planning is not only about making a list of attractions. It is also important to understand distances, transport, where to stay, and which places can realistically be visited together.
Why I Created TouristState
When I planned trips in the past, travel blogs were often the main source of information. They could be useful, but I often missed one important thing: a clear visual overview of the destination.
Europe is especially suited to map-based planning. Interesting places can be close to another city, region, or even another country. A map makes these connections much easier to see.
The same applies inside a city. Seeing attractions together with train stations, bus stops, parking areas, and other useful locations makes it easier to choose where to stay and group places into realistic sightseeing days.
That became one of the main ideas behind TouristState.
Seeing What an Attraction Is Really Like
Another problem I often found was that an attraction might be described with only one or two photos.
That is usually not enough to understand a larger place. A palace may have important interiors and gardens. A museum can contain several very different areas. A church tower may offer a view, but you may want to know what that view actually looks like before paying to go up.
For this reason, I try to show different parts of an attraction through carefully selected photo galleries. When I have suitable photos from my own visits, I use them as well.
The aim is to help you understand what a place is like before deciding whether it belongs in your trip.
How TouristState Guides Are Created
I build each TouristState guide from multiple sources rather than relying on a single viewpoint.
For each destination, I compare information from official tourism websites, attraction websites, maps, travel publications, local resources, and other travel guides. I use this research to identify the main places visitors are likely to consider and organize them into a practical guide.
I then add information that helps with actual trip planning, such as transport details, opening information when useful, maps, and visual references.
The goal is to give you a clear overview of the essential places before your trip, so you can spend more time planning the parts of the journey that matter most to you.
