Guided By
Tim Tendick
13-Day Tour | Bucharest, Sighisoara, Sibiu, Cluj, Bucovina, & Brasov
Discover why Romania is Europe’s best kept secret. Visit castles and cathedrals, mines and mountaintops, bistros and boulevards, to be the first of your friends to understand how the country’s intricate blend of cultural influences has created an identity all its own.
10-Day Tour | Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, & Würzberg
A holiday season journey through some of the best market towns of Europe, with some of Tim’s favorite hidden travel gems mixed in.
10-Day Tour | Rotterdam, Antwerp, & Luxembourg City
Travel through the heart of Europe on this off-the-beaten path tour to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Travel Talks
Romania & BENELUX Tours. Guided By 2024 Tours: Meet the Guides livestream. Tim presents his two small-group tours, Romania and BENELUX (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
Live From Rotterdam. Guided By Sunday Travel Talk. Tim discusses Rotterdam, Europe’s biggest port and surprising cultural hub.
Dracula. Guided By Sunday Travel Talk. Tim does a deep dive into the history and legend of Romania’s most misunderstood figure.
Romanian Food Influences. Guided By Sunday Travel Talk. Tim Tendick talks food and drink culture in Romania.
Christmas Markets. Guided By Sunday Travel Talk. New Tour for 2025: Christmas Markets!
Luxembourg City. Tim explores a favorite travel gem, hiding in plain sight in the middle of Europe.
About Tim
Tim Tendick is an unrepentant traveler, whose predilection for wandering led him to live five years entirely on the road, before he reached a happy balance of roughly half the year abroad and half in Oakland, California. But if hitch-hiking planes ever becomes a thing, he might be late for dinner.
He has a degree in Language Studies from UC Santa Cruz, with a specialization in Latin American Politics and History, but sees his best education as coming from travel, where lessons are unexpected, constant, and vast. Having taught English in half a dozen countries over four continents, his love for the sharing of knowledge synthesizes with his love of travel when he guides, which he has been doing professionally for Rick Steves’ Europe since 2015.
In his California time he enjoys cycling, rock climbing, photography, reading epic fantasy and indulgent thrillers, crocheting massive blankets, knitting hats that no one wears, and playing with a dog named Bilbo. You can read more about his travels via his blog vagabondurges.com, and sign up for his mailing list above.
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