/* eslint-disable */ // Multi-City — itinerary-shape hub. Mirrors the three-day template's editorial vocabulary // (cream/teal/tan, Playfair + DM Sans/Mono, numbered sections, hero masthead). const { useState: useMCState } = React; /* ---------- HERO ---------- */ const MCHero = () => (
); /* ---------- I · TWELVE REGIONS ---------- */ const MCPlaces = () => { const [region, setRegion] = useMCState("All"); const regions = ["All", "Europe", "Asia", "Americas", "Africa"]; const filtered = MC_PLACES.filter(p => region === "All" || p.region === region); return (
I

Twelve regions,the multi-country routes.

Picked because the region actually rewards a multi-country trip — borders that cooperate, transport that connects, and a route that reads like a single line on a map. Each card opens a hand-built plan walked by the desk.

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); }; /* ---------- II · FIELD NOTES (essay quote, dark band) ---------- */ const MCField = () => (
II

Field notes.Why the multi-country form is harder than it looks.

The opening pages of the Itineraries Desk's house essay on the multi-country trip — what makes it work, what kills it, and the rule that turns five countries into three good ones.

Read the full essay
"The multi-country trip is the one where the planning matters most. A bad three-day trip in Lisbon is a bad weekend. A bad three-week trip across Europe is a thousand small decisions you can't take back — the wrong border, the wrong bus, the country that needed five days you only gave it two. The form rewards a route drawn in one motion and a calendar with two empty days in it."

The most common mistake is treating a multi-country trip like a list. Five countries in fourteen days reads well on a tab in a browser; on the road, it's two days per country, which is no country at all. The form's iron rule is four to five days per country, no exceptions. A two-week trip is two countries done well. A three-week trip is three or four. Five countries is a month, and even then you're protecting the route, not the count.

The trip is built around three locked things — the open-jaw flight in and out, the first night, and the last night. Everything between gets booked one to two weeks ahead, from a café in the country you're already in. The flexibility is the form. Lock too much and the trip can't tell you what it wanted to be.

— Iris Mendoza, Itineraries Desk · House essay Nº 12

); /* ---------- III · ITINERARIES BY CHARACTER ---------- */ const MCItins = () => (
III

Eight itineraries,by character.

Same form, eight different trips. Efficient, slow, multi-city, business, flexible, overland, hub-and-spoke, border-savvy. Each is a complete day-by-day with a budget that holds in 2026 and a route tested across borders.

All multi-country plans
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); /* ---------- IV · BY CHARACTER (table) ---------- */ const MCByStyle = () => (
IV

The multi-countrymatrix.

Six shapes the multi-country trip takes. Pick the row that matches the route, not the row that matches the country list.

Pace planner
Trip character
Days
Guides
Best examples
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); /* ---------- V · READING LIST ---------- */ const MCReading = () => (
V

Eight reads,by depth.

The pieces sitting one click below this page. The first is the seed essay; the rest are method, packing, and the cost-of-borders math. Read in order or skip to the question you're already mid-Googling.

All Itineraries essays
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); /* ---------- VI · DESK / VOICES ---------- */ const MCVoices = () => (
VI

The Itineraries desk.Three editors on the form.

The multi-country trip is the one the desk teaches youngest writers on. These are the people writing it — what they go for, and what they keep coming back to.

Desk masthead
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); /* ---------- VII · THE BRIEF ---------- */ const MCPractical = () => (
VII

The brief.Six tips, in order of importance.

The non-obvious things. Tested on the road, ordered by how much they matter when the trip crosses a border.

Full planning guide
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); /* ---------- VIII · FAQ ---------- */ const MCFAQ = () => { const [open, setOpen] = useMCState(0); return (
VIII

The questionsreaders send in.

Lightly edited reader letters about the multi-country trip. If yours isn't here, the planning desk reads every email.

Ask the desk →
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ONE OPEN-JAW TICKET · FOUR DAYS PER COUNTRY · ONE MAP

Plan a multi-country tripthat actually holds.

Open a region, copy the route, read the brief, book the open-jaw. Two countries or six, one ticket, one direction, no zigzag.

Open Europe, the multi-country build → ↑ Back to Itineraries
MULTI-CITY · FORM Nº 12 · UPDATED 06.05.2026
FIELD DESK Nº 211
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