Streets & Taps
One of us walks a city looking up at cornices and stained glass. The other walks it looking for the good pour. Together you get the whole city — and a realistic plan for seeing it.
Latest dispatches · Budapest
All posts →The city above eye level
What you’ll find under this byline:
- Architecture walks and neighbourhood guides
- Interiors worth queueing for — and the ones that aren’t
- Practical planning: routes, timing, light, weather backups
- The Table: food worth stopping for, and sweet wines — port, Moscato, Tokaji
The city by the glass
What you’ll find under this byline:
- Brewery and taproom reviews, no sponsored pours
- Local beer styles explained without the snobbery (well, mostly)
- Where to drink near whatever Olesia is photographing
Where we’ve been looking up — and drinking down
Budapest
Ruins, baths, taprooms and the Danube at dusk.
North East Coast
Whitby, Saltburn, Staithes — sea fret and seaside ale.
Newcastle
Victorian grandeur and one of the UK’s best beer cities.
Durham
Home: a Norman cathedral, cobbled lanes and Ian’s local taprooms.
Vietnam & Cambodia
Temples, colonial façades and a rising craft beer scene — next trip.
Two travellers, one itinerary, one of us always ten minutes behind
We’re a married couple from Durham, England, who travel the way most people actually travel: a few days per city, a budget, weather that doesn’t cooperate, and two very different lists of priorities.
This journal is what we wish existed before each trip — honest, experience-based and specific.
The Taps App — Ian’s beer map is coming
Every brewery and taproom from our travels: mapped, rated, and entirely free of sponsored opinions.
Built by Olesia. Supervised, loudly, by Ian.
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