<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Checked In]]></title><description><![CDATA[Checked In]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:02:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.checkedin-app.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Two Montmartres: where to eat and drink on the quiet side]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skip the Place du Tertre crush for the Montmartre two streets away — Coeur Coffee on rue Ravignan, La Maison Rose, LE 975, and how to do Sacré-Cœur properly. We know a place. Everyone climbs to Place du Tertre and stops there. Keep walking. There are two Montmartres, running side by side, and most people only ever meet one. The first is the one on the postcards: the painters' square, the portrait easels, the crêpe stands, the coach groups shuffling between them. The second starts about two...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/two-montmartres-where-to-eat-and-drink-on-the-quiet-side</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab312a809ec856a564d8c16</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:43:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_5d8fffd832694f2385a172fff0f5f710~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aliki, Paros — the Greek island town that hasn't heard of you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skip Naoussa's queues for Aliki, Paros: a quiet fishing village with harbourside fish tavernas, calm swimming and long Greek lunches. We know a place. Everyone gets off the ferry at Parikia and turns left for Naoussa. Turn right instead. There's a version of Greece everyone posts and a version everyone actually dreams about. Naoussa is the first one now — beautiful, but you're queueing for it. Aliki, twenty minutes south on the same island, is the second: a small fishing village wrapped...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/aliki-paros-the-greek-island-town-that-hasn-t-heard-of-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a94f7f761ae427fcc2cc3b5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:04:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_8b4c1e8de7c5442983babefc8b1c050d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine bars worth a detour in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a certain kind of wine bar that doesn't want to be found. No sign, or a sign for a business that closed in 1987. A door you'd walk past a hundred times. Inside: forty seats, a chalkboard, someone's uncle deciding what you're drinking tonight. These are the ones worth building a day around:  LISBON Sol e Pesca, on Rua Nova do Carvalho, is a former fishing-tackle shop that now pours Portuguese wine alongside the best tinned fish of your life — conservas on bread, done so well you'll...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/the-wine-bars-worth-a-detour-in-europe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8d41c691ea1d0846e3ed5e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:39:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_5e68e8fdf625441fafd9333b5b1be9f0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York doesn't need you to plan. It needs you to walk.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The city rewards stamina, not itineraries. Every first-timer makes the same mistake in New York: they build an itinerary. Times Square, Empire State, a musical, a checklist. New York is not a checklist city. It is a walking city, maybe the walking city, and the whole point is what happens between the landmarks. So: pick a neighbourhood per day, not a list of sights. One day downtown — start with a bacon-egg-and-cheese from any deli that looks busy, walk the West Village while it's quiet,...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/new-york-doesn-t-need-you-to-plan-it-needs-you-to-walk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8e5a9f28d0cf71ca0449f9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:39:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_1ca40f20eb914b4fb6580257d848c0f8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waikiki and the North Shore are two different islands. Visit both.]]></title><description><![CDATA[One hour of driving, two entirely different ideas of Hawaii. Everyone has an opinion about Waikiki, and most of them are wrong. Yes, it's built up. Yes, there's a Cheesecake Factory. But at 6am, before the towels come out, Waikiki is one of the great city beaches of the world — longboarders on glassy rollers, Diamond Head going pink, old men swimming their morning laps. Rent a board from a beach boy stand and take the slowest, friendliest wave of your life. Eat a plate lunch. Watch the sunset...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/waikiki-and-the-north-shore-are-two-different-islands-visit-both</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8e57d4836b1f3da5f9e69a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:39:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_8f6b305857aa45f7bf490d01cc04a76c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rio, then Ilha Grande: the city and its escape hatch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three days in the loudest beautiful city on earth. Then an island with no cars at all. RIO is the only megacity on earth where the geography upstages the skyline. Granite mountains straight out of the sea, forest running through the middle of town, and beaches that function as the city's living room. Do the icons — Christ early morning, Sugarloaf for sunset (that order matters) — then live like a carioca. Start the day at Ipanema around Posto 9, drink coconut water straight from the shell and...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/rio-then-ilha-grande-the-city-and-its-escape-hatch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8e626db23c95114c726183</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:39:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_654bd3c5a2174c8f822f2c29072fdb3b~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climbing Acatenango: the hardest, best thing I've done while travelling]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 3,976-metre volcano, a group of friends, porters who put us all to shame — and a front-row seat to an eruption. I'll be honest about Acatenango: it's fun and games until it very suddenly isn't, and then it becomes one of the best things you'll ever do. I did it in January 2024 — dry season, the right call — a group of friends plus a few strangers who joined our trek and weren't strangers by the top. It starts innocently: a van out of Antigua, a farmhouse breakfast, walking poles handed out...]]></description><link>https://www.checkedin-app.com/post/climbing-acatenango-the-hardest-best-thing-i-ve-done-while-travelling</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8e68fe28d0cf71ca046f3b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:39:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e835c1_e7e7821940a145bb982edbf31a54e24e~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Adrian Logiudice</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>