Every place is real. Every day actually fits.
Those are the two things we promise, and this page shows you how we keep them. Every stop in an Odycairn plan is a real place with a source you can check. Every day is timed against a real clock before you see it: how long the drive takes, when the doors open, how much daylight you get. If a trip does not fit, we say so.
Every place comes from somewhere
Places come from Wikivoyage, written by travellers who have been there, and we keep the names, coordinates, opening hours and prices exactly as the guide records them. Then we cross-check against OpenStreetMap. Every record remembers where it came from, and so can you: tap the ⓘ beside any stop to see the source.
Real roads, real driving times
Drive times are routed along actual roads using OSRM and OpenStreetMap, so a mountain pass costs you what a mountain pass costs. Nothing here is a straight line on a map. Where a leg goes by rail or ferry we use timetable estimates, and we label them so you know which is which.
Every day is timed before you see it
We build each day against the clock. Travel between stops, how long you will want at each one, when places open and close, and how much daylight your month actually gives you. If a stop does not fit the day, it does not go in the day.
We tell you what we do not know
Sometimes the source is thin. A place with no listed opening hours, or a route with nothing matching something you asked for. When that happens the plan says so, in plain words, rather than quietly filling the gap. Knowing where the edges are is part of trusting the middle.
The facts are theirs, the words are ours
We take facts from the guides: names, addresses, hours. We never take their prose. Every description you read here is written fresh, and it can only ever attach to a place already in the catalogue. A description for somewhere that does not exist gets thrown away rather than printed.
We would rather say no than pad
If a route cannot honestly fill the days you asked for, it builds the days it can and tells you why there are fewer. You will never get an invented stop or a half-empty afternoon dressed up as an itinerary.
What every day is checked against
Every day carries the daylight for the town you are sleeping in that night, so a short winter day is planned as a short winter day rather than as if it were June. We check opening hours, seasonal closures and overnight options too, wherever the source carries them. Where it does not, the plan tells you.
Ask for the Iceland Ring Road in four days in December and we will not hand you a fantasy. You will get the daylight maths, the closest plan that genuinely works, and a straight answer about what to cut. When a trip is impossible, that is what we will tell you.
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