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The Danube isn't blue and Strauss knew it: the river where you wake up in a different city every morning

From Vienna to Budapest, stopping at Esztergom and Visegrád. A boat that docks in the old town centre, not twenty...

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At 06:00 the Bogorodica border is at its worst - by 22:00 the same day it is 27 minutes

Everyone leaves early to beat the queue. The forecast says that is exactly when the queue is longest - and...

06 August 2026 Read more →

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Macondo Was Built on 17,000 Square Metres in Tolima, but the Journey Starts in a Different Village

The town from One Hundred Years of Solitude does not exist. The landscape it was born from does, and it...

06 August 2026 Read more →

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1,500 Euros for One Night in a Glass Room in the Oldest Desert on Earth: The Glass Room Is the Advert, the Desert Is the Story

An oval structure of steel and glass on a rock in the Namib, with a telescope and a pool. The...

05 August 2026 Read more →

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A Thousand Lakes and a Smoke Sauna: What the World's Happiest Country Is Actually Selling

The ritual is wake, lake, forest, sauna, lake, sleep. Not one step requires a booking - and that is precisely...

04 August 2026 Read more →

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Five Coves You Cannot Reach by Car: The Filter That Works Better Than Any Reservation

Black sand thrown up by volcanoes, a spring that kept pirates hiding here for centuries, and cliffs covered in fossils....

03 August 2026 Read more →

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The Greek border live: on Sunday evening the three crossings look nothing alike

Bogorodica and Star Dojran are queued up, Medzitlija is moving. What the cameras show, when the jams hit, and what...

02 August 2026 Read more →

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Eight Places in Europe Where Summer Does Not Hurt: From 13 Degrees in the Faroes to the Soča Two Hours Away

While some queue in traffic at 38 degrees, Europe has places where the August maximum is 13. Eight addresses that...

02 August 2026 Read more →

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Neither Biarritz nor San Sebastián: Eleven Beaches on a Coast the Travel Lists Keep Skipping

They call it the French California and that isn't an agency line. Four and a half kilometres of boardwalk, eleven...

01 August 2026 Read more →

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Three Live Cameras on the Greek Border: Bogorodica, Medzitlija and Star Dojran

The state of all three Greek border crossings live, with waiting times, a seven-day forecast and reports from drivers.

31 July 2026 Read more →

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An Island Run by Women and Beaches With Nobody on Them: Estonia Is What the Mediterranean Can No Longer Offer

Six days by car from Tallinn to Parnu, a ferry to the islands, a canoe hollowed out of a single...

31 July 2026 Read more →

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A Town in the Middle of the Atlantic That Mattered Only Because It Was on the Way to Somewhere Else

Angra do Heroísmo was the first Portuguese town on the UNESCO list. Today it matters precisely because nobody passes through...

30 July 2026 Read more →