It’s easy to group Africa into broad travel ideas, but once you’re there, each place feels distinct. One country may centre on wildlife and conservation, while another focuses more on history or daily life in towns and markets. The destinations in this guide highlight that range. You’ll see how volcanic landscapes shape northern Rwanda, how…
Most trips to Europe follow a familiar pattern, moving between well-known cities and landmarks. That works, but it doesn’t always show much of what sits in between. This guide focuses on five different ways to experience Europe by spending more time in those in-between spaces. It includes rural cycling routes, alpine walking areas, smaller coastal…
The chilly cliffs of the Faroe Islands—which are located between Iceland and Norway—are the perfect backdrop for the lair of a super villain capable of taking down one of cinema’s most celebrated secret agents. In the 2021 film No Time to Die, fictional British spy James Bond finally met his match on a windswept mountain…
Planning a trip to Europe from the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada means a lot of moving parts. Flights, trains, city switches, and somewhere between all of it, you need your phone to just work. Maps loading at a busy train station, a booking confirmation pulling up at a hotel desk, a quick…
Have you ever wanted to leave everything behind and head out on the road in an old van? Most people have, at least once. That restless urge sits at the heart of Into the Wild, Sean Penn’s raw and deeply affecting film based on the real story of Christopher McCandless, the young man who renamed…
A summer holiday is a perfect opportunity to re-energise your body and mind, and to return to your daily life feeling refreshed. But to get the maximum benefit from your break, you’ll need to approach it in the right way. Let’s consider a few worthwhile tips that might allow you to do exactly that. Plan…
Prior to the 20th century, people of Greek and Turkish descent lived a fairly harmonious existence in the Turkish village of Kayakoy. Referred to as Livissi by the Greek population, the village was home to a Greek Orthodox church, rows of homes, and a school. A cultural rift between Greece and Turkey in the wake…
Like most mid-sized cities, Rockford, Illinois is home to an art museum, a natural history museum, and a children’s museum. What visitors don’t expect is a quartet of 12-foot stone statues that have been likened to stone gladiators, petrified robots, and golems that will spring to life at any moment to defend the town of…
