The author
I built and run the 2026 city network.
Nine personal guides to the cities — and the places, rooms and nights inside them — worth the trip. One editor, one standard, every city. What you read here is what I’d tell a friend before they fly: specific, opinionated, and kept current.
Founder & editor
Jordan
Founder and editor of the 2026 city network — nine personal city guides to the places, rooms and nights worth the trip. I travel the cities, write the guides, and stand behind every recommendation on every site.
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A guide should come from someone who actually goes.
Most city guides read the same — written for a stranger, by a stranger, the same handful of venues recycled year after year. They age the day they’re published.
The 2026 network is built the other way. Each site is written and kept current by one editor who travels the city — eats in it, stays in it, goes out in it. The standard is plain: tell you exactly where to go, in euros and by name, and be right about it.
“The list is not for sale. A venue can pay for a clearly-labelled placement — it cannot pay to be recommended.”
The standard
Four rules. No exceptions.
Seen, not scraped
Recommendations come from being on the ground — eating, staying, going out. Where a city is still research-led, every guide there says so plainly.
Specific, or it doesn't run
Never 'a lovely spot in the old town'. A recommendation is a name, an address, a price in euros. If it can't be that exact, it isn't ready to publish.
Editorial is not for sale
A venue can buy a clearly-labelled Featured or Promoted placement. The guides themselves cannot be bought. Any commercial relationship is disclosed on the page it appears on.
Current, not eternal
A 2026 site carries 2026 recommendations. When a place closes or slips, the site reflects it within days — and an outdated guide comes down.
The full money-and-disclosure detail lives on how this works.
The network
Nine cities, covered one at a time.
The network grows the honest way — in person, city by city. The cities below carry first-person editorial today. The rest are research-led, labelled as such on every guide, and rewritten the moment I land.
- Ibiza· in person
- Formentera· in person
Research-led, rolling out: Barcelona · Madrid · Greece · London · Leeds Uni Students · Lisbon · Dubai.
Read the work
Latest from Madrid
Words are easy. The guides are the work — start here. Until I’m on the ground in Madrid, each one here is research-led — read it accordingly.
3 Days in Madrid 2026: The Perfect Itinerary
A day-by-day Madrid itinerary balancing the Prado and the Royal Palace with the barrios, the tapas crawls, and the late nights. Where to go, in what order, built for a 2026 city break.
3 min read
Where to Eat in Madrid 2026: The Honest Food Guide
Madrid eats late, eats well, and eats cheap if you know where. The tapas barrios, the markets worth your time, the dishes to order, and the tourist traps to walk past. An honest 2026 food guide.
4 min read
Madrid Nightlife Guide 2026: Where Locals Actually Go Out
Madrid goes out later and harder than almost any city in Europe. The clubs locals use, the barrios for bar-hopping, the rhythm of a proper Madrid night, and the tourist traps to skip. Updated for 2026.
6 min read
Tell me I’m wrong
Know somewhere better than what I’ve listed? Found a guide that’s slipped out of date? Send it. The best intelligence on a city comes from the people who love it — I’d rather hear it than miss it.