Last month I spent a long weekend in Romania with my cousin on a short, guided, group trip that was exactly what I needed – not because it was “life-changing” or any of that, but because it removed the part of travel I have had zero capacity for lately: endless decision making.

So we booked the ‘Hiking and Bear Watching in Romania’ trip with Much Better Adventures, based out of Brașov – a place I’d never once thought about visiting on my own.