Francesca A.

Francesca covers the European city itineraries, the romantic getaways, the wellness escapes — basically the trips where the goal isn't to see everything but to see the right thing properly. She's based in Lisbon, grew up in Florence, and has spent enough weekends in Paris and Rome that she could draw the Marais and Trastevere from memory.

She started in food writing — three years at a Lisbon culinary magazine — and that lens shows up in everything she writes. A 3-day Paris itinerary, in her hands, is mostly an argument about which bakery to start the morning at. She's planned weddings (twice for friends, once for herself), so the honeymoon coverage comes with strong opinions about what actually matters when two people are jet-lagged on Day 1.