Vacations are made of freedom. Pure freedom. Our busy lives, full of obligations, mean that vacations may be the only times we can do whatever we want, wherever we want. So just how weird is it that we all spend that precious time doing the same things? That we descend en masse on the same cities, cluster around the same attractions and all visit the same picturesque neighborhoods that can't actually handle the influx?

How to be a Better Tourist takes a fresh look at making your vacation trul...

Embark on over 50 of the world's most life-affirming journeys and nurture your path to self-discovery. Packed with beautiful photography and inspiring first-person insights for each trip, from hiking Japan's sacred Shikoku pilgrimage to following the Underground Railroad in the US. This is the perfect book for anyone seeking to travel with purpose.

Els Sirejacob and Bram Debaenst love camper life: they enjoy the simplicity, the freedom, the nature, and living in the moment. And, the good food, of course: being a food stylist and recipe writer (Els) and a food photographer (Bram) means they both like to follow their noses and gut feeling – literally – where possible.

In the summer of 2022, they took their respective families on a camper road trip through Italy, the country that always sets their hearts aflutter. Els made her way from...