Building eURo TRIP
Regular updates, whenever something changes.
September 2026
"Surprise me" and other place pages: Retry now actually retries
If "Surprise me" (or any destination link) landed you on the branded "something went off track" page, clicking Retry — and even a fresh "Surprise me" pick afterward — could keep showing the exact same error, with no way through it. The offline-support layer this app installs in your browser was caching that error page under the destination's own address and quietly handing it right back on Retry, even after the underlying hiccup had already cleared server-side. Retry now clears that out first, so it's a genuine fresh attempt every time, not a replay of the same stuck page.
View this page →August 2026
A destination now opens out of its own photo
Opening a place from Browse used to swap one screen for another. Now the card's own photo lifts out of the grid and grows into the destination's hero image, name and all, while the rest of Browse steps quietly back — so it feels like arriving somewhere rather than waiting for a page, and coming back briefly marks the card you left from so you can pick up where you were. If you've asked your device for less motion, everything works exactly as before, just without the movement.
View this page →Getting Around now covers Public transport too
Paris's own Getting Around card used to say nothing about its metro at all — the previous version had no data source for transit, so the category simply never appeared, anywhere. It now reads each destination's own Wikivoyage "Get around" write-up for which real local modes it names (metro, regional rail, tram, an organized bus network, local ferries) and rates it Excellent/Good/Moderate/Limited from what's actually there — never from a city's size, so a place with genuinely little organized transport still reads "Limited" no matter how famous it is. Walking also got smarter: a small historic old town no longer loses its walking rating just because too few of its sights have exact map coordinates.
View this page →Getting Around: a quick read on walking, driving and cycling
A new compact card on destination pages — a rough Excellent/Good/Moderate/Difficult read on Walking, Car / taxi, and Cycling, each with one short reason why. Grounded in real signals this app already has (how spread out a place's own sights actually are, its population, whether its own text calls out a historic old town or genuinely mountainous terrain), never a guessed "big city = good transit" or "small town = great cycling" shortcut. Public transport isn't rated at all — there's no real data behind a transit score yet, so it's left out rather than guessed at, on every destination.
View this page →Sight categories now look like things to explore, not a filter row
"What do you want to explore?" used to offer Culture, Architecture, History, Nature, Views, and Experiences as plain icon-and-label pills. Each one is now a small photo card of its own, so picking a category feels like the start of exploring rather than filtering a list.
View this page →Seasonal Highlights: what's actually great about a place, by season
A new compact card on every destination page — up to one short line per season for what genuinely stands out about visiting then: an alpine town's summer hiking and winter skiing, a coastal town's summer beaches, a wine region's autumn harvest, a historic city's comfortable spring and autumn sightseeing. Not a "best time to visit" verdict, and never a guess from a place's single main category alone — each line only shows up with real evidence behind it, so a place with nothing genuinely seasonal to say just shows fewer lines, or none at all, rather than a generic one.
View this page →A place's name now sits right on its own hero photo
A destination page used to repeat its name twice — once as plain text just under the big hero photo, right above it again a moment later. The name now lives directly on the photo itself instead, as "Paris, France" over a gentle bottom scrim, the same photo-overlay look eURo TRIP's own homepage already uses — one clear name, not two.
View this page →Browse reliably starts at the top on a fresh visit
Opening Browse from the homepage, the nav bar, or a normal link on another page could sometimes land you partway down the page instead of at the top — a leftover scroll position from an earlier visit that should have been long forgotten. Browse now always starts fresh from the top on a genuine new visit, while "Back to Browse" still returns you to exactly where you left off — same photo, same scroll position, same filters.
View this page →Plan a Trip no longer flashes in empty
Opening Plan a Trip for the first time in a visit could briefly show just the heading with a blank gap underneath, then have the actual content abruptly snap into place a moment later. It now settles in with a short, gentle fade instead of that hard pop.
View this page →The homepage's photo carousel fades properly now
The big rotating photo at the top of the homepage was supposed to gently crossfade between photos, but it actually just popped in the instant each one finished loading, sometimes leaving a plain dark gap right before it. It now waits for a photo to be genuinely ready before starting its fade, so the crossfade always plays the way it was meant to.
View this page →That fairer shot now holds up even when it isn't a close call
The fairer competition from earlier today only kicked in when two places matched the same number of a trip's interests. A place matching two or three still automatically outweighed one matching just one, even when that one match was exactly, completely what the place is about — the same size-correlated edge in slightly different clothes. Matching more still counts for more, genuinely broader appeal still wins, but a second or third match is no longer worth as much as the whole first one on its own — real competitive routes, not just tied ones.
View this page →Smaller, characterful places get a fairer shot against big cities
A place that happens to be tagged with more themes used to have a structural edge in route planning over an equally well-matching but more narrowly-tagged one — a big city touching several of a trip's interests could out-rank a smaller town that's genuinely, entirely about the one interest they share, even when it's just as good a fit and sits right on the way. Places whose whole character lines up tightly with what a trip is actually looking for now get real credit for that focus, not just a count of boxes ticked — enough to win a close or tied call, never enough to beat a destination that's a clearly stronger match. Big, well-known cities still win when they're genuinely the better pick — this is about real competition between destinations of every size, not a thumb on the scale for small ones.
View this page →A chosen focus can no longer drag a route hundreds of km off course
Picking "Coastlines" used to mean every selected country got a coastal stop whether or not one actually fit the route — inland Germany could end up with a ~700km round trip to the North Sea and back just to check that box, even when the rest of the trip was headed the other way entirely. A focus like that still gets a real preference for suitable places, but it's never worth an unreasonable detour anymore — if the only candidate that fits the category would drag the route badly off course, the route stays coherent and that one focus simply isn't represented in that stretch, the same way it already wasn't for a region with no matching places at all.
View this page →A long drive can now get a real overnight stop along the way
When two consecutive stops end up a genuinely long haul apart (Stuttgart to Milan, say), the route now checks whether a real, worthwhile place sits close enough to the direct line between them to break the drive up — never forced in if nothing actually fits, and 300km is a trigger to go looking, not a hard limit that reroutes a trip that's fine as it is. An inserted stop always gets exactly one night and shows up clearly labeled as an overnight stop — a dashed marker and a small moon icon instead of the usual numbered pin — so it never reads as one of the trip's own planned destinations.
View this page →Generated routes stop doubling back on themselves
A route could pick a genuinely good next stop and, a step or two later, pick another good stop that happened to sit right back where the trip had just come from — each pick made sense on its own, but the route as a whole zigzagged instead of actually going somewhere. Every stop's own turn is now weighed against the direction the trip was already heading: a real curve (rounding a mountain range, the natural sweep of a loop) still costs nothing, but a stop that would send the route backtracking now has to be worth it. Nothing about focus, destination quality, or pace changed — just whether the shape the stops trace out actually reads as one trip.
View this page →95 new destinations, chosen to close real gaps
Rather than just adding more famous cities, this batch came out of a real audit of where the curated map was thin: whole regions with almost nothing (Sardinia had zero places, Sicily had two), themes with too few options everywhere (Coastal, Active & Sports, and Food & Drink were each under a seventh of the catalogue), and — the case that started it — real gaps between countries a route has to cross, like the missing French stop between Paris and the German border that used to force a much longer detour than it should have. 500 curated places now, all working the same way everywhere: map, Browse, route generation, and (once Google re-crawls) the sitemap.
View this page →The "avoid a big jump" preference now also holds when a theme needs a guaranteed stop
A follow-up to the smarter-routes fix above: when a chosen theme (say, Relaxation) wasn't showing up in a leg of the trip yet, a separate step guarantees it a stop by swapping one in — but that swap wasn't checking distance the way the rest of route generation now does, so it could still land a stop several hundred kilometres out of the way, undoing the very preference just added. That swap now weighs distance and how well the pick fits the rest of the trip the same way every other stop in the route already does.
View this page →Smarter, more natural-feeling generated routes
Three route-generation improvements at once, found together while chasing one oddly-shaped trip: countries in a multi-country route now split more sensibly instead of one quietly getting nearly every stop; a long, uncomfortable jump between stops (like leaping straight from Paris deep into Germany) is now actively discouraged in favor of closer, more natural options, without ever ruling out a long hop outright when it's genuinely the best choice; and two destinations close enough to share one hotel — Wiesbaden and Mainz, just 10km apart, used to each get their own separate 3-night stay — now merge into one longer stay with the nearby one noted as an easy day trip.
View this page →A stuck place page now clears itself up
A place that hit a brief loading hiccup used to stay stuck on the friendly "something went wrong" screen for the rest of the day, unless someone actually pressed its Retry button — easy to miss, since seeing an error is exactly when most people just leave instead. It now quietly tries again on its own the moment anyone next opens that page, so a passing glitch clears itself up without anyone needing to notice or act.
View this page →Faster first-ever loads on place pages
Opening a place for the very first time — before anyone else had, so nothing about it was cached yet — could occasionally take much longer than it should, close to 20 seconds on a well-documented city like Cologne. The actual cause: one background data source was allowed to stall for up to 12 seconds even on the visits where it had nothing to add. It's now capped far tighter, so a slow first-ever load like that finishes several times faster — nothing about a place's sights, photos, or details changed, just how long the wait could stretch.
View this page →The homepage's own Plan a Trip preview, caught up
Plan a Trip's start screen swapped its emoji for this app's own icons a few days ago — but the homepage's echo of it, the three question cards under "Build your journey," was quietly left showing the old 📅/🎯/🥾 the whole time. It now uses the exact same calendar, focus, and pace icons as the real page, so the two finally match.
View this page →"Back to Browse" fully closes the last of the flash
A small flash could still slip through on "Back to Browse" even after the previous fix, since the link still opened Browse as a brand-new page underneath, which briefly shows before your own feed takes over. It now genuinely steps back to the Browse page you already had open, the same way a browser's own Back button would, so there's no new page underneath to flash at all.
View this page →"Back to Browse" no longer flashes to the top first
Coming back from a place or a route used to briefly show Browse at the very top before snapping down to your actual scroll position — a jarring jump, since that data was never going to be used anyway (returning to Browse always resumes your own feed, not a freshly loaded one). That unnecessary detour is gone, so "Back to Browse" now lands you exactly where you left off, with nothing to visibly jump past.
View this page →Browse reacts instantly, even while it's still loading
Opening Browse from anywhere — the nav bar, the homepage, a Back link — could sit there for a second or two with no sign anything had happened, ever since it started reshuffling for every fresh visit. It now shows the search bar, filters, and category tiles right away, with the destination grid filling in underneath, so a click always gets an immediate, visible reaction instead of what looked like a dead page.
View this page →Editorial Routes jump straight into planning, no detour
Clicking "Plan this route" on an Editorial Route used to re-fetch every stop's photos and sights over the network before you could start editing, even though the route page you were just looking at already had all of it — a long, generic loading animation for data the app already had in hand. That data is now carried straight through, so planning a curated route lands you in the editable trip view almost instantly, no read-only detour in between. On the rare occasion a wait is unavoidable, it now shows the same flag-and-photos loading screen a freshly generated trip already uses, instead of a generic skeleton.
View this page →Browse's fresh shuffle now respects an actual visit, every time
Browse's per-visit shuffle used to only change once an hour, so refreshing the page (or opening it again shortly after leaving) could quietly show the exact same lineup. It also occasionally held onto an older order after leaving Browse entirely through the main navigation and coming back later. Both are fixed: opening a place or route and coming back still lands you on the exact same feed and scroll position, but a genuinely new visit — a refresh, or leaving Browse for something else and returning later — now always gets its own fresh shuffle, for both places and editorial routes.
View this page →Save a place straight from Browse, and see a fresher mix each visit
Every destination card in Browse now has its own save star, so a place you like can go straight to Saved without opening it first. Browse also shuffles its order a little differently each visit now, instead of always showing the same lineup from the top — your own feed still stays put while you scroll or filter, so nothing jumps around mid-browse.
View this page →Small places no longer clutter the Map at a zoomed-out view
At a zoomed-out view of Europe, an individual destination with nothing nearby to group into a bubble used to show up as its own small dot right next to a "12 places here" cluster or a major city — a cluttered mess that made the busier marker hard to read. Those small dots now stay out of the way until you've zoomed in enough to actually tell them apart, fading in gradually as you get closer, exactly where clusters and major cities already keep the map readable at a glance.
View this page →Your trip now opens on the right screen, every time
Starting a brand-new route — by questionnaire or by building it yourself — now takes you straight into editing it, the way it always should have. Opening a saved trip or a ready-made route still shows its finished, read-only view first, and picking "Plan this route" on a ready-made route now jumps straight into editing it instead of pausing on an extra preview screen along the way. Ready-made routes opened from Browse also got their own "Back to Browse" link back, the same one every destination already has.
View this page →"Back to Browse" now actually returns you to your scroll position
Opening a destination from deep in the Browse feed, then coming back, used to silently dump you back at the very top — the app was already remembering exactly where you'd scrolled to, but the browser's own back-navigation was quietly overriding it. Browse now lands you back right where you left off, every time.
View this page →Ready-made routes now live right inside Browse
The 10 curated routes used to only show up in their own separate section. Browse now mixes them straight into the destination feed as occasional, larger features between groups of places — never all bunched at the top — and a new All / Routes / Places switch lets you jump straight to just the ready-made journeys, or just individual destinations, whenever you'd rather.
View this page →Nine more ready-made routes to get inspired by
The Dutch escape wasn't staying alone for long — nine more hand-picked routes just joined it: the South of France, eastern Germany, Northern Italy's lakes, Spain's coast to Madrid, the Low Countries, Central Europe, the Baltic cities, an Adriatic escape, and England's cities and countryside. Ten journeys now, each with its own pace and personality, all ready to browse, read, and hand straight to the Trip Planner.
View this page →A real finished view for your trip, separate from editing it
A trip now has two clear modes: the polished, read-only route you'd actually pull up while traveling — stops, nights, the map, top sights, and your own notes, all in one glance — and a separate editing view for changing it, reached with a plain "Continue editing." "Back to trip" returns you to the finished view without losing anything. The little reveal animation is reserved for the moment that deserves it: right after a route is created, not every single time you open the editor.
View this page →Trip stops now hold onto their top sights
A destination in a trip would sometimes show no sights at all, even though that same place's own page had plenty — a brief hiccup while fetching a stop's data that, unlike a place page, never got a second chance. Trip stops now get that same second chance, so a well-documented destination reliably keeps its 2 top sights instead of occasionally losing them for good.
View this page →The first ready-made route: a Dutch escape from Zeeland to Amsterdam
A new way to get inspired alongside building your own trip from scratch: complete, hand-picked routes with their own story. The first one starts in historic Middelburg, swings out to the North Sea coast at Domburg, contrasts through modern Rotterdam, and finishes in Amsterdam — 13 nights, 4 stops. Browse it, read why each stop earns its place, then hand it straight to the Trip Planner to make it your own.
View this page →The error page can actually get you unstuck now
If a page like the Map failed to load, its "Try again" screen used to just re-render the same broken attempt — leaving out and back in with no real fix, sometimes stuck failing on repeat visits too. Retry now clears out whatever stale, cached data caused it — the same reset the footer's "Check for updates" already used — right where the page actually broke, without sending you back to the homepage first.
View this page →My eURo TRIP has its own name now, not the homepage's
The Saved area ("My eURo TRIP") used to show the plain eURo TRIP homepage's title and preview everywhere — the browser tab, a shared link, search results. It now has its own name — and is correctly marked as personal, so it stays out of search results rather than showing up as a stranger's browsing.
View this page →Browse loads in fully built now
Browse used to show a page of loading skeletons for a moment before any real destinations appeared, every single visit. The first screenful of real places — photos, names, and all — is already there the instant the page loads now, with the rest of the feed still arriving as you scroll.
View this page →Shared trip links show their story while loading
Opening a shared trip link used to show nothing but a blank loading spinner for the first moment. It now shows the trip's headline and stats straight away — "Your German Adventure Begins 🇩🇪 · Dresden → Leipzig · 6 nights · 2 stops · 1 country" — with the full photo-card route filling in a moment later.
View this page →Browse and the Map get their own search & sharing previews
Sharing a link to Browse or the Map used to preview as the plain eURo TRIP homepage — same title, same picture, no hint of what either page actually is. Both now have their own title, description, and a dedicated preview photo of their own — a castle in the Alps for Browse, a winding mountain road for the Map — in Google results and everywhere a link unfurls.
View this page →Every place now has its own search & sharing preview
Sharing or searching for a specific place — "Paris, France" instead of a generic "eURo TRIP" — used to show the same site-wide title, description, and picture no matter which of the hundreds of places it actually was. Every place page now generates its own: a real title and description for that destination, and its own hero photo as the preview image, in Google results, Slack, iMessage, and everywhere else a link unfurls.
View this page →Shared trip links now preview properly
A shared trip link used to preview as a generic "Plan Your Europe Trip" card everywhere — Slack, iMessage, Twitter/X, anywhere a link unfurls before it's clicked — no matter which route was actually shared. It now shows the real trip: a title like "Your German Adventure Begins", the route ("Dresden → Meissen → Plzeň"), nights/stops/countries, and its own preview image, all generated the moment the link is shared, no click needed.
View this page →A personal Journal for each saved trip
The Saved section is now called "My eURo TRIP" (same page, same Recovery ID, nothing lost) — and every saved trip has a new Journal tab next to its existing Overview. Add as many quick entries as you like for any day of the trip, each with an optional mood and an optional place, no account needed and nothing shared — it's just a personal record of the trip, saved right alongside it.
View this page →One map, tidied up everywhere it shows up
eURo TRIP's map already looked and worked the same on the homepage, the main Map page, your route, and while building your own route — this pass caught the last couple of loose threads. A route's start and end points now show the same photo-card popup every other stop does, instead of a plain line of text. And picking a replacement stop from the map now says "Use" (matching the list right next to it) instead of always saying "Add to Trip", even when it's really swapping one stop for another.
View this page →Map popups now show a preview photo
Clicking a place on the Map — browsing all places, following a route, or building your own — used to open a popup with just a name and a button. It now shows a small preview photo too, the same resolved photo every place page already uses, so you get a sense of a place before clicking through. It only loads once a popup is actually opened, so browsing the map stays just as fast.
View this page →Development Hub tidied up, with a way back
This corner of the site had no way back except the browser's own back button — it now has one, same as every other footer page. Also retired the "Developer Notes" section: a nice idea, but it never got the attention Building and Roadmap do, so it's gone rather than left to go stale.
View this page →A place you open now has a real way back
Opening a place from the homepage, the Map, or a "nearby destinations" link used to leave you with no way back except the browser's own back button — only a saved trip or Browse card offered one. Every place now shows a proper "← Back" the moment there's somewhere real to return to, and stays silent on a fresh visit (a shared link, a bookmark, a search-engine result) where there isn't.
View this page →Search the Map — and while building your own route
The Map ("All Places") and "Build your own route" both get a real search box now: type a city or place, and the map flies straight to it with a marker and its name, wherever it sits in Europe — no more panning around to find one specific place. Building your own route works exactly as before: search only locates a place, it never adds it for you — add it the same explicit way you always have, straight from its marker.
View this page →Stop notes have room to breathe now
Adding a note to a stop in your itinerary used to squeeze it into a tight corner of that stop's card, cramped up against the button below it. That one card now grows to fit its note comfortably — every other stop keeps its usual tidy size, only the one you're actually writing a note on makes room for it.
View this page →Opening a saved trip now tells its story first
Opening one of your saved trips used to drop you straight into the editor — drag handles, remove buttons, and every control at once. It now shows the same beautiful read-only story shared links already use first — a headline, the route on a map, one card per stop — with a clear "Continue editing" button whenever you're ready to make changes. Nothing about editing or saving your trips changed underneath.
View this page →Opening a shared route no longer feels stuck
A shared trip link is genuinely reliable, but looking up every stop's sights and photos can take a little while — and until now, the loading screen gave no sign that a longer wait was normal, so it could look like the link had simply failed. It now says so directly once the wait runs long, instead of leaving you wondering.
View this page →Shared trip links now read like a travel story
Opening a route someone shared used to drop you straight into their trip's full editor — drag handles, remove buttons, and every other control, just with one button relabeled "Use this route." It's a proper read-only itinerary now: a headline, the route on a map, and one photo card per stop with its nights and top sights, ending in "Plan this trip" or "Build your own trip" instead of a stranger's editing tools.
View this page →The Map now tells you what you're looking at
Zoomed out, the Map used to be mostly numbered dots — no way to tell which city was which without clicking each one open. It now names Europe's best-known destinations (London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, and more) right from the first view, with more names appearing the further in you zoom — an actual reason to explore the map instead of just panning around blindly.
View this page →Your route now sits on a real map, not empty space
"My Route" used to show your trip as just a dotted line and a few numbered dots floating on a flat gray background — no coastline, no borders, nothing tying it to an actual place. It now sits on a faint outline of the countries it passes through. Selecting a country used to wash its own place markers out in the exact same color; it uses a lighter fill now so markers stay visible on top. And a stop where you're spending more nights shows up as a slightly bigger stop on the map, not the same size as a quick one-night stopover.
View this page →Browse feels like discovery again, not a database listing
Every destination card used to be exactly the same size, lined up three-per-row like a spreadsheet. Every so often now, a destination gets a bigger, more prominent card — plus a subtle vertical rhythm between the smaller ones — so scrolling through Browse feels closer to flipping through a travel magazine. Photos are never cropped differently to make this work, and it stays a plain, simple stack on a phone.
View this page →Browse's country filter finally sits with the rest of the filters
The "Countries" button used to sit by itself in a half-empty row below the Cities/Nature/Culture (and so on) tiles — seven tiles never quite fill an even grid, so it looked like a stray leftover control rather than part of the page. It's now the 8th tile in that same grid, styled exactly like the others, which also happens to complete the grid evenly at every screen size.
View this page →Plan a Trip's start screen feels like the beginning of a trip
The empty "Plan a Trip" screen used to read like a plain form: a flat headline, two solid buttons, emoji next to each question, and a bare text example route. It's more atmospheric now — subtle map-inspired art behind the hero and the two entry buttons, this app's own SVG icons instead of emoji, and the example route (Berlin → Potsdam → Leipzig) as a small polished map preview with real markers and a route line instead of plain pins and arrows.
View this page →Routes give bigger cities more time to explore
Nights used to be split evenly across every stop on a route, so a major city like London could end up with exactly as many nights as a small nearby town. Routes now lean more nights toward the biggest, most significant stop and fewer toward the smaller ones alongside it, so an itinerary spends its time where it naturally makes sense to linger.
View this page →Browse's categories now look like things to explore, not a text list
The Cities, Nature, Culture (and so on) filters on Browse used to be a row of small text pills that wrapped across three lines on a phone before you even reached the results. They're proper tiles now — a bigger icon in its own badge, a clear label, the same card look the destinations below already use — so picking a vibe feels like part of browsing instead of a database filter bolted on top of it.
View this page →A more spacious, better-balanced homepage hero on mobile
On phones, the hero's "Plan a trip" button used to shrink down to a thin little pill next to the much bigger "Browse destinations" button — a real sizing bug, not just a style nitpick. Both buttons now stack full-width at the same height, with a bit more breathing room around them, so the hero opens the homepage feeling considered on a phone the same way it already did on a tablet or desktop.
View this page →The site's own name, written the same way everywhere
A few screens still spelled the site's name slightly differently from the rest — the app icon's label, a couple of headings, the press kit — mostly leftover "eURoTRIP" or "eURo Trip" from before the name settled. It's now written the same way everywhere: eURo TRIP.
View this page →"Surprise me" now lives right on the homepage
Browse's "Surprise me" — pick a random curated destination when you don't know where to go — used to be a click away on the full Browse page. It's now right there in the homepage's own Browse section too, beside "Browse all destinations", for anyone who wants a spark of inspiration before they've even started scrolling.
View this page →Background pattern stays crisp on long pages
On longer pages, the faint background pattern could sometimes render as a few oversized, blurry lines instead of the usual fine texture. It now stays consistently crisp all the way down, however long the page is.
View this page →Get Recovery ID works reliably now
Right after launch, getting a Recovery ID reliably failed with a generic "please try again" for anyone with actual saved places or trips — only an empty, brand-new Saved list happened to go through. That's fixed at the root now: real saved data is stored correctly every time, a one-time server hiccup no longer gets stuck repeating itself, and a real failure says specifically what went wrong instead of one generic message every time.
View this page →A Recovery ID to bring your Saved data anywhere
Saved places and trips still live only in this browser by default, no account needed. Now you can optionally get a Recovery ID — a short code, no email or password — to restore everything on another device or after clearing your browser's storage. Still not an account: just a code you keep, that only you control.
View this page →Plan a Trip gets its own look when shared or searched
Sharing a Plan a Trip link, or finding it on Google, used to show the exact same photo and summary as the homepage — accurate for "discover Europe", not for "build your own route". It now gets its own preview photo and its own title and summary, written specifically for planning a personalized multi-stop itinerary, while the homepage keeps exactly what it already had.
View this page →Nearby destinations stay reliable through a long browsing streak
Clicking through a long streak of nearby destinations could, rarely, bring the same broken-page error back on one specific place minutes later — even though its photo had loaded perfectly just before — and it would only sort itself out again after a while. Background work left behind by places you'd already moved on from now gets cleared away the moment you leave, and the rare place that still gets stuck now recovers right away instead of needing time to pass.
View this page →Nearby destinations never link to a broken card
A nearby destination card could very rarely still appear even on the one visit its photo failed to load, and clicking it then sometimes landed on the calm "something went off track" screen instead of the place itself. A card like that simply doesn't appear at all now until it actually has its photo — a brief hiccup quietly sorts itself out on your very next visit, exactly as it always would have, just with nothing broken to click through to in the meantime.
View this page →Search opens a place the same way everything else does
Opening a destination straight from a search result could briefly show an empty page before anything appeared, even though clicking that exact same place from Browse, Nearby destinations, or the map landed instantly on its photo and name. Search now takes the same direct path there every other way of opening a place already does, so it gets the identical instant hero photo, name, and loading skeleton — never a blank screen in between.
View this page →Rapid "Surprise me" clicks no longer break
Clicking Browse's "Surprise me" several times in quick succession — especially backing out before a pick finished loading — could occasionally end in a broken page, the same kind of overload that once affected Nearby Destinations. Repeated picks now share the same work instead of piling up, and backing out mid-pick and trying again picks up right where you left off instead of starting a whole new one.
View this page →Name a collection after a country, get its flag
A still-empty collection named after a single country — "Germany", "Italy Ideas", "My Greece Trip" — now gets that country's own flag as its cover instead of a generic city photo, an instantly recognizable touch that makes a collection easier to spot at a glance. Mention more than one country, or none at all, and a collection's cover works exactly as it always has.
View this page →A clearer, more focused navigation bar
The top navigation now highlights Browse and Plan a Trip — the two main ways into the app — in indigo, while Map and Saved stay in the plain gray style. Development Hub has moved out of the main menu and into the footer, alongside Sources and the other reference pages, so the four remaining tabs read as one clean, purposeful group instead of a long, evenly-weighted list.
View this page →"Surprise me" — a random destination, one click away
No place in mind and no idea where to start? Browse now has a "Surprise me" button that picks a random destination from the full curated collection, plays a short cinematic reveal while it builds anticipation, then lands you straight on that place's own page.
View this page →A sight's detail card finally stands out from the page
Tapping a sight on a place page opened its detail card right on top of the page, but the text and photos behind it stayed exactly as sharp as before — the card read as something dropped onto the screen rather than the page actually stepping back for it. The page now properly blurs and dims behind the card (the menu bar stays sharp and usable throughout), and a stray line that used to sit under the description for no real reason is gone.
View this page →Route editing, no longer stuck at one border
Inserting a stop or swapping one for something else used to only ever suggest other places in the same country your trip started in — Paris could never show up as an option for a route through Germany, even though it's right next door. Every suggestion now looks across all of Europe, still ranked by how close it actually is, so nearby places across a border show up right alongside the ones in your own country. You can also add or change where your trip starts and ends straight from the route itself, not just at the very beginning.
View this page →Place pages now have real, readable URLs
Every destination page used to live at a bare /ort/id/{wikidataId} — technically correct, but meaningless to look at and share. Places now get a proper English address with the name right in it, like /places/Q90/paris — one clear, permanent URL per place, with every old link and bookmark still redirecting straight there.
View this page →Cleaner, English URLs across the site
A handful of pages still carried their original German working names in the URL — /meine-reise, /karte, /favoriten, /impressum — even though everything else about eURo TRIP is English. Those are now /plan-trip, /map, /saved, and /imprint, matching the rest of the site. Old links and bookmarks still work — they redirect straight to the new address instead of breaking.
View this page →A trip-length slider that actually shows you the trip
The "How much time do you have?" slider now goes up to 28 nights (was 21) for anyone genuinely planning a full month across Europe. It also got a real visual upgrade: the filled track gets more intense the further right you drag — a light indigo tint for a quick trip, deepening into the site's own bold accent color for a long one — so the bar itself tells you how much trip you've picked, not just the number underneath it. Updates live while dragging, and works the same way on desktop, tablet, and mobile.
View this page →Stay-duration recommendations, recalibrated for a route planner
The "most visitors spend around X days" note briefly had a 7-9 day top tier for any large city, purely from population — meaning it answered "how long could someone spend here if this were the only place they visited," not the more useful "how long before continuing my Europe route," which is what this app is actually for. The scale now tops out at 5-7 days, reserved for genuinely exceptional, metro-scale destinations rather than any big city. It's also more careful about what "big" even means: a compact but very well-documented historic town no longer gets bumped up to the same tier as an actual metropolis just because its sights list happens to fill up — reaching the top tiers now needs real population scale on top of real content, not either one alone.
View this page →A trip-planning order that matches how you actually plan
The wizard used to ask how long you're traveling before where you're even going. It now opens with "Where do you want to go?", then "How much time do you have?", then how you'd like to explore — destination, then time, then travel style, the order it actually happens in your head. The old transport question ("How are you getting around?" — car / train / on foot / flying) also read as a promise of exact route optimization it wasn't quite delivering on. It's now "How do you want to explore Europe?" with Road trip, Train journey, Flights + local transport, or No preference — and a short line under the question saying plainly what it actually changes: how far apart your stops can be, not a booking or timetable. Picking multiple far-apart countries (say, Portugal and Norway) without "Flights" still won't produce a silent, unrealistic overland route — it tells you honestly that the combination doesn't work with that travel style and suggests flying instead.
View this page →Smarter stay-duration recommendations
The "most visitors spend around X days here" note on every destination page used to look at exactly one thing: how many documented sights that place happened to have, capped at a flat "5-6 days" no matter how big the destination actually was — so a well-documented regional city and an actual capital like Paris or Rome got the identical recommendation. It now also factors in the place's real population and its own "Perfect for" character: a genuine major city can now recommend up to 7-9 days, a real city under-represented in its sights list gets a fairer bump instead of reading as a quick stop, and a nature or coastal destination with few formal "sights" isn't penalized down to the shortest tier just because it isn't a checklist kind of place. Small, sight-light towns still get the same honest short recommendation as before.
View this page →A more consistent desktop layout
On a wide screen, some pages (Plan a Trip, the Development Hub, a Collection) sat in a noticeably narrower column than Browse or Saved, with the same cards squeezed into far less room for no real reason — and Plan a Trip's own column width used to visibly jump wider the moment you clicked "Build your own route." All of those now share one consistent width, and the homepage's sections below the hero widened to match the hero itself instead of narrowing right where it ends. A destination page's hero photo also got a little more room to breathe, while the text below it stays exactly as easy to read as before — inspiration and readability, not a wall-to-wall layout. Mobile and tablet are untouched.
View this page →One brand color again: indigo, everywhere
The map had drifted to its own teal look, and Plan a Trip to its own magenta one — both undone. Indigo is the one eURo TRIP color again: map markers, routes, buttons and country cards, and Plan a Trip's own accents and "Build your journey" heading, all back to the same blue that's everywhere else on the site. Gold stays exactly as it was, since that one actually means something — it's Saved's own color, not a page theme.
View this page →The map no longer paints over the menu bar while scrolling
Scroll down while building your own route (or browsing any of the site's other maps) and place markers could end up rendering right on top of the logo and menu instead of staying behind it — a rare-looking but jarring glitch once you hit it. The map now always stays properly behind the menu bar, however far you scroll. The pace toggle above the map on "Build your own route" also got its own clearly framed card, so it reads as a distinct set of controls rather than blending into the page.
View this page →One consistent "Adding…" animation, everywhere
Clicking a place on the map while building your own route, and hitting "Add to eURo TRIP" on a destination page, each had their own slightly different spinner. Both — plus every other spot that adds a stop — now share the exact same little spinning ring next to "Adding…", so it feels like one consistent action no matter where you start it from.
View this page →"Try again" on a stuck destination now actually works
On that calm error screen, "Try again" used to just reload the exact same stuck page — so if a destination got stuck, it stayed stuck, retry after retry. It now properly clears the stale state first, so a genuine hiccup actually gets a fresh shot at loading. If it's still not budging after one try, you'll get a clear way to move on — explore other destinations, go back, or head to search — instead of being stuck retrying forever.
View this page →The friendly error screen now catches every case
Last update promised a calm, on-brand screen any time something went wrong instead of a raw technical one — but opening a destination for the very first time, right as a brief hiccup was happening elsewhere, could still slip past it and show the old plain page. That's closed now too: it's the same calm screen in every situation, first visit or not.
View this page →Saving a trip now actually finishes it
Saving used to leave the same trip sitting open in Plan a Trip right alongside its new copy under Saved, so it was never really clear the trip was done — and an old trip like that could quietly get changed later without you meaning to. Now, once you see "Trip saved! ✓", Plan a Trip resets to a clean slate and the saved version is safe under Saved. Reopening and editing an already-saved trip now shows "Update trip" instead, and updates that same trip rather than creating a second copy of it. Adding a place from its own page works the same way: if you already have a trip on the go, you'll get a quick "Add this to your current trip?" check first, instead of it happening the moment you click. Choosing "Start a new trip" when asked also sticks now — leave a draft behind and it stays left behind, even after browsing elsewhere and coming back, instead of asking the same question again.
View this page →Nearby destinations keep their photos for good
Clicking through Nearby Destinations a lot in one go could very rarely make a place lose its photo for good — a brief hiccup talking to an outside source got mistaken for "this place truly has no photo" and got remembered that way permanently. That mix-up is fixed at the source now, so a temporary blip never sticks. On top of that, if something unexpected ever does go wrong anywhere on the site, you'll now see a calm, on-brand "something went off track" screen with a clear way back — never a confusing technical error page.
View this page →Smarter routes for flight-based trips
Say you're flying to the start and/or from the end of your trip, and eURo TRIP now works out a genuinely practical route around it — beginning or ending in a real international hub city instead of a small town with no realistic flight connections, automatically, not just as a suggestion you had to notice and accept. Flying both ways now also offers a proper round trip: it optimizes the start for a good hub and closes with a note like "Return to Vienna for your flight home" instead of a second, backtracking hub city at the end — and now keeps that last stop within a reasonable 250km of the city you fly home from, so getting there is never an unplanned long haul.
View this page →A sharper logo, and a clearer search listing
The little squiggle-and-eye mark used to blur into a faint smudge at browser-tab and Google-search size — it's now cropped tighter around the same artwork so it actually reads at a glance, everywhere from your tab bar to a home-screen icon to search results, with every conventional favicon size and file browsers and search engines look for now filled in. The site's own title and description in Google search results are also cleaned up into one consistent, accurate summary of what eURo TRIP actually does.
View this page →Bigger photos on your route timeline
Each stop's photo used to be squeezed into a small, sometimes awkwardly cropped thumbnail. It's now a real hero photo next to everything you already had — nights, notes, alternatives — cropped the same consistent way your destination pages already are, so every stop's card looks like the same premium card, not a different shape for every photo.
View this page →Filter Browse by vibe or by country
Browse can now be narrowed down two ways: by "Perfect for" — nature, culture, food, and the rest of the usual categories — or by country, picked from a searchable list. Use either on its own or both together, and they stick around if you open a place and come back.
View this page →The same four colors, everywhere they matter
Browse, Map, Plan a Trip, and Saved each now carry a small label naming their step in eURo TRIP's own idea — get inspired, discover Europe, build your journey, get organized — in the same color the homepage guide already uses for that step. Small on its own, but it means the color of a button or a link is starting to mean something consistent wherever you run into it.
View this page →A homepage that tells the whole story
The homepage got a rebuild around eURo TRIP's actual idea — get inspired, discover Europe, build your journey — so it now walks you through that in order: a taste of Browse, a live look at the map, a preview of building a route, then a short guide tying it all together. "Popular Destinations" is gone in favor of a real discovery moment that leads into the full Browse page.
View this page →Round trips, and a clearer start/end
Your route can now genuinely loop — add the same place more than once, from the timeline or right on the map, for real round trips like Munich → Salzburg → Innsbruck → Munich, or Paris → Rouen → Paris. Departing and returning points also look like what they actually are now: short, clearly labeled cards instead of blending in with your real stops, still fully editable and removable, and marked "S"/"E" on the map instead of a plain, unlabeled circle.
View this page →Better main photos for places with a strong identity
Main photos now lean harder toward "would this make someone want to visit?" instead of just "is this technically the right place?". Well-known destinations — Copenhagen and London among them — now favor a recognizable landmark or historic streetscape over a forgettable generic shot; a few places had quietly regressed to a duller photo than they used to have and are back to their stronger ones; photos that are really just a close-up, a parked car, or someone else's neighboring town in disguise no longer win out over ones that actually show the destination; and any photo whose own caption calls out a heavy color filter is nudged aside in favor of a natural-looking alternative.
View this page →A proper way back to Browse
Opening a place straight from Browse now leaves a small "Back to Browse" link above its photo — the same quiet back-link style Saved and your trip already use, not a big button competing with the destination itself. Tapping it doesn't just dump you back at the top of the feed either: it returns you to the exact card you left, everything already loaded, nothing to re-scroll past.
View this page →Opening a place now feels like arriving, not waiting
The loading moment kept evolving until it stopped being a separate moment at all: opening a place now shows that exact destination's own real photo and name immediately — the same picture you just tapped, settling into place as the page's own header photo — with the rest of the page filling in around it in the same shimmering shape the finished page has, section by section, rather than one generic "preparing your destination" card popping in and then vanishing all at once. Video and nearby destinations now load in visibly after the rest, instead of holding up everything else behind them. A place also now always opens scrolled to its very top — the hero photo first — instead of sometimes landing wherever you'd scrolled to on the page you came from, most noticeably when opening one place straight from another's own "Nearby destinations". Same wherever you open a place from: search, Browse, the map, a route, Saved, Nearby, or a collection.
A new way to explore: Browse
A new Browse tab for when you don't have a place in mind yet — a scrolling feed of curated European destinations, big photo first, rather than a list to search through. Every card shows just enough to catch your eye (name, country, a couple of "Perfect for" tags) before leading straight to that place's own page to save it or add it to a route. Still know exactly where you want to go? The same search from the homepage sits right at the top.
View this page →Multi-country route flags now always show up while it builds
Building a route across two or more countries could leave one or more of its flags blank while the route came together — a single-country route's one big flag usually showed up fine. The flags were being treated as regular, deferrable images even though they're known and ready the instant the route's countries are, so this now loads every one of them right away, no matter how many countries the route spans.
View this page →Opening a trip or place now always leads back the right way
The back button after opening something saved didn't always return you to where you actually came from. Trips had no back link at all, however they were opened. Worse, a place opened from inside a collection incorrectly showed "Back to Saved" instead of that collection — one tap back landed you on the wrong page. Both are fixed now: open a trip or place from the general Saved overview and it shows "Back to Saved"; open either one from inside a specific collection and it shows "Back to [that collection]" instead, taking you straight back to it.
View this page →Collections now hold saved places too, not just trips
Collections were trip-only until now — a saved place had no way to get organized at all. The exact same collections a trip can go into now work for places too, side by side: an "Italy Ideas" collection can hold a saved trip through Tuscany and a couple of favorited cities at once, with one shared cover photo, one shared name, one shared page. Every saved place gets the same "Move to…" action a saved trip already had, and a collection's own page now shows its trips and its places together. Since a collection never cared what was inside it to begin with, this needed no separate system — just letting places point at the same collections trips already could.
View this page →Every collection now has its own page
A collection used to just be a filtered view toggled in place on the Saved page — opening one, then hitting refresh, dropped you right back out to the overview. Every collection now gets its own real page: its own cover photo, its title front and center, only its own trips, and a clear way back to every collection at once. That page is also where renaming and deleting a collection live now. It's a small change to look at, but it's the foundation collection sharing, descriptions, and other upcoming features will build on.
View this page →Coordinates on a place page now look (and act) clickable
The lat/lon shown on a place page already opened the map, but nothing about it looked tappable — it's now a bordered pill that highlights on hover and press. Landing on the map that way, or from a sight's own "View on map" link, now shows a "Back to [place]" button either way, so getting back doesn't depend on the browser's own back button.
View this page →Opening a place now feels like the start of a trip, not a wait
Every way of opening a place — search, the map, Nearby destinations, Popular Destinations, a trip stop, a saved place — now shows the same intentional "Preparing your destination…" screen instead of a plain skeleton or, worse, no feedback at all: a large brand-mark badge with a gentle floating motion, centered on the screen, with a rotating European travel fact underneath — reusing the exact same 20 facts and pacing as the trip-planning loading screen. It appears the instant a click registers (no waiting on the page's own data first) and disappears the moment the destination is ready, so a fast, already-cached place still opens quickly — only a genuinely slower first-time load gets to spend a little longer in it. Search specifically used to have no loading feedback at all between finding a match and actually arriving — that gap is now covered too.
View this page →Every place now gets a real vibe, not a Wikipedia sentence
The short italic line under a place's name is meant to capture its mood, not restate facts — but when there was nothing atmospheric to quote, it used to quietly fall back to a plain "X is a city in..." opening sentence instead. Places without one now get matched against 8 mood profiles (Historic & Heritage, Culture & Art, Urban & City Life, Nature & Outdoors, Coastal & Beach, Food & Local Experiences, Relaxation & Escape, Hidden Gem) using the same sight mix and "Perfect for" signals already shown on the page, then given one of several hand-written lines for that mood — decided once per place and reused every time, never recalculated on a normal visit. A genuinely atmospheric quote, when one exists, is still shown first.
View this page →A trip stop's photo now matches its own place page
A place's photo on your trip's own timeline card could be a different, older pick than the one shown on that same place's own page — sourced through a separate, weaker lookup instead of the newer Pexels-first one. Trip stops (and, following from that, a Collection's auto-picked cover photo) now pull from that exact same resolved photo, cached once and reused everywhere, the same fix "Nearby destinations" cards already got.
View this page →Sights are now something to explore, not scroll past
Sight photos kept causing the same trust problem no matter how strictly they were sourced — occasionally the wrong building for the right name. Rather than chase an ever-narrower standard, sights no longer show photos at all: a place with several things worth seeing now opens with "What do you want to explore?" and a few warm category chips (Culture, Architecture, History, Nature, Views, Experiences) — pick one to see what's there. A smaller place skips straight to its short list. Tapping any sight opens its name, description, a map link, and an official website when there is one — arguably more useful than a photo ever was for a museum or castle. Hero images (the big photo at the top of every place page) are untouched — this only ever affected the Sights section below it.
View this page →Found and fixed why place pages occasionally wouldn't load
Some visitors occasionally hit a bare "page couldn't load" error while browsing — worse, in the installed home-screen app, where there's no Safari setting to clear it. Turned out that scrolling past a page full of place cards or links was silently pre-loading every visible one in the background, not just whichever one got clicked — multiplying real load on the sources this app checks (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and more) far beyond normal browsing, occasionally slowing a page down enough to time out. Fixed everywhere this could happen: Nearby destinations, Popular Destinations, a trip's own itinerary, a saved trip, the map's "All Places" and "My Route" views, and Saved places. That background pre-loading is now off for all of those, and a request that does get rejected no longer wastes time retrying it uselessly. A service-worker fix from earlier the same day (only caching genuinely successful responses, plus an in-app "Reset & Reload" for the rare page that still can't load) stays in place as a safety net.
View this page →Nearby destination cards always show their photo now
Nearby destination cards (Malmö and Roskilde among others) were sometimes showing no photo at all, even though the same place had one on its own page — they now always show that exact same photo. And for the rare place with no good photo anywhere, a clean fallback with its name now appears instead of a blank box, both on the card and on the place's own page.
View this page →Destination pages now help you build your trip
Every destination page now shows what it's perfect for (Culture, Nature, Food & Drink, and more), a rough guide to how long most people stay, nearby places worth adding next, and a one-tap button to add it straight to your route — turning a quick look at a place into an actual next step.
View this page →Collection covers now use a real photo
A collection's cover now pulls in an actual photo where one makes sense: name a new, still-empty collection something like "Italy Ideas" and it suggests a fitting photo right away, while a collection with trips already in it shows the strongest photo among them — picking up an even better one automatically as more trips are added. Still falls back to the navy-to-indigo cover art when no good photo is available.
View this page →Collections got their own cover art
Every collection now shows as a small navy-to-indigo card of its own — a soft glow, a little dotted route forming across the middle, and its icon and trip count laid over the top. One consistent look for every collection, whether it has trips in it yet or not, rather than a plain tile.
View this page →Organize saved trips into Collections
Saved trips can now be grouped into named collections — "Summer 2027", "Italy Ideas", whatever fits — each with its own optional icon. Saving a new trip offers a quick "Save to..." choice (an existing collection, a brand-new one, or none at all), and any saved trip can be moved between collections later. Nothing is required — trips saved without picking one just stay in an easy-to-find Unsorted list.
View this page →Pick your trip by vibe, not a checklist
The old plain list of interests (Cities, Nature, Culture, ...) is now a set of visual mood cards — Slow & Relaxed, Adventure, Arts & Culture, Food & Wine, Summer Escape, City Escape. Pick one as your main pick and add more if you like; your route gets built around it exactly like before, just with a way of choosing that actually feels like planning a trip instead of filling out a form.
View this page →A short cinematic reveal once your route is ready
The finished route used to just appear the moment it was done. Now there's a brief, calm reveal first — a title picked for your actual trip ("Your Italian Adventure Begins", "Your Alpine Escape", and a handful of other patterns depending on where you're headed), your day/country/city counts, then the route drawing itself on a small map before handing off to the full itinerary. Over in a few seconds, with a "Skip" always available, and only ever shown right after a fresh route is built — not when reopening a saved trip or refreshing the page.
View this page →Watch your route come together while it builds
Building a route used to just show a generic placeholder animation. Now your route's own country flag(s) appear up top, each place's photo shows up in a strip below the moment it's ready, and a rotating line of Europe trivia keeps the wait interesting — so the screen shows real progress instead of a loop.
View this page →The flight-connection heads-up now asks first
That new heads-up used to show up any time you gave a starting or ending point, even if you were actually driving or taking the train there. Now it only checks once you say yes to a quick "are you flying?" toggle right under that field — no more irrelevant airport warnings if you're not flying.
View this page →A heads-up when your start or end city is hard to fly from
If you've given a starting or ending point, we now check whether the first or last stop is realistically well-connected for flights — and if it's a small town, a gentle, dismissible note offers a bigger, better-connected city nearby, addable in one tap.
View this page →Your route stays the star of the map
Adding a distant starting/ending point (say, Melbourne) used to zoom the map out so far your actual stops shrank to a speck. The map now always frames your real route first — the starting/ending point still shows, just without shrinking everything else to fit it. The "Departing from"/"Returning to" line also got a layout pass: its icon now lines up properly with the text, with a bit more breathing room around it.
View this page →Starting and ending points are now independent
Already in Europe with a known arrival city but no idea where you'll end up (or the other way around)? The old single starting-point field is now two separate ones — starting and ending — each with its own equally easy "Skip" option, so either can be filled in, skipped, or both, independently.
View this page →Routes now pace themselves better
Generated routes used to be ordered purely by distance, which could stack two busy city stops back to back. Where a nearby calmer alternative exists, the route now leans toward it instead — without adding a real detour or overriding what you actually asked for.
View this page →Sight photos: fixed for good this time
Several rounds of fixes cleaned up photos that were broken, blurry, or oddly cropped — some kept quietly slipping back to a worse version, and one (a place's own main photo) turned out to be requested at too low a resolution for how large it's actually shown on screen. Both root causes are now fixed.
Starting-city picks now cover every country in a route
Building a route across two or three countries used to only offer starting cities from the first one — the picker (and the "Surprise me" option) now draws from all of them, so your trip can genuinely start wherever you like.
View this page →Your saved trip's name now travels with it
Open a trip you've saved under its own name, and that name now shows right at the top of the route itself, not just in the Saved list you opened it from.
View this page →Routes now match your trip focus more closely
"Plan a Trip" also picked up a new focus of its own, Coastal & Beach, and every focus you pick — Nature, Culture, and the rest — is now guaranteed at least one matching stop in the route whenever your chosen region actually has one, not just a "best effort" nudge.
View this page →A clear way back from a place page
Open a stop from your route or a place from Saved, and a small "Back to your trip" or "Back to Saved" link now takes you straight back to it — no more re-finding your way through the menu.
View this page →July 2026
22 new small-town hidden gems added
More characterful little stops now show up between the big cities — places like Dinkelsbühl, Rocamadour, and Civita di Bagnoregio, spread across nine countries — so routes have more substance beyond the usual capitals.
View this page →The installed app updates properly now
eURo TRIP added to your iPhone or iPad home screen was getting stuck on an old version after a new release — it now reliably picks up updates, with a manual "check for updates" option in the footer as a backup.
View this page →Cancel out of a search or a route mid-build
A search taking too long, or a trip you don't want to finish planning after all — both can now be cancelled outright, with a quick "are you sure?" if you'd already made some choices.
View this page →The homepage search animation, tidied up
The little plane animation that shows while searching had a dot cut in half and felt randomly placed — it now sits inside its own card right under the search box, sized up and lined up properly.
View this page →A homepage nudge to install the app
A quiet new section near the bottom of the homepage shows how to add eURo TRIP to your home screen — a one-tap install button where the browser supports it, clear step-by-step instructions everywhere else.
View this page →eURo TRIP now installs like a real app
Add eURo TRIP to your home screen on iPhone or iPad and it opens full-screen, with no browser bar and its own splash screen. Places you've already looked at also stay visible if your connection drops.
View this page →Roadmap and Notes get real preview tiles
Both tiles on the Development Hub overview now tease actual content instead of "Coming soon" — a peek at what's in progress, and the latest developer note's opening lines.
View this page →Introducing this Development Hub section
This very corner of the site: a running, honest look at what's being built, what's next, and what's on my mind while it happens.
View this page →About, Sources, and Privacy pages added
New pages explain what eURo TRIP is about, where its data comes from, and how it handles your privacy. Some behind-the-scenes work also makes the site easier to find on Google.
View this page →Planning and Saved are now separate
"Plan a Trip" and "Saved" used to blur together in the menu — they're now two clearly separate places.
View this page →Build your own route, now in teal
Prefer picking your own stops? Click places right on the map to build a route by hand, now with its own consistent teal look.
View this page →The map got a lot less cluttered
Places that are close together now group into a single number until you zoom in, instead of showing up as a couple hundred overlapping dots.
View this page →A fresh, redesigned eURo TRIP logo
The logo got a full redesign, giving the site a clearer, more distinctive look.
View this page →Saved trips now have a permanent home
Once you save a trip, it sticks around for good — come back to it, export it, or share it whenever you like.
View this page →eURo TRIP goes live
Official launch day: eURo TRIP moved onto its own domain, go-eurotrip.eu, and opened up to everyone.
View this page →Mark and revisit your favorite places
Places you like can now be starred, so you can find them again later, all in one spot.
View this page →Turn your route into a PDF, or share it
Finished routes can now be exported as a PDF or shared with a link, so you don't need the site open to keep them handy.
View this page →Sights and attractions, now with photos
Every place got its own list of nearby things worth seeing, each one with a photo.
Answer a few questions, get a route
A first trip planner arrived — answer a few quick questions about what you enjoy, and it puts together a route for you.
View this page →An interactive map of Europe to explore
The first places appeared as pins on a real, interactive map of Europe, instead of just a plain list.
View this page →eURo TRIP's very first version goes live
The first working version of the site went online: search for any town or city in Europe and see quick facts pulled straight from Wikipedia.
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