This newsletter arrives with some delay, but the heat got me. As you surely know, record-breaking temperatures have disrupted life across Europe, with data showing that this continent is warming ...
About 100 kilometers south of London, hidden in the shadows of its louder, flashier neighbors, Littlehampton is among West Sussex’s most-whispered secrets. The facts are all publicly available, so the ...
Despite touristic locations selling you the sun all day long, sometimes literally, like a Sardinian village that banned ...
Some cities hide their best-kept secrets in speakeasies or unmarked doorways. Basel keeps its in plain sight – on a gravel bank by the river, where perfectly ordinary people have been getting ...
The dawn sky above the southern tip of Cebu Island looks like someone spilled a watercolor palette. As otherworldly hues of pastel pink wash out the sleep in my eyes, I start thinking that Filipinos ...
Israel‘s Eurovision appearances have long attracted scrutiny far beyond the usual contest chatter. Across Europe, a growing chorus of critics questions whether one of the world’s most-watched ...
Until late last night, I was ruminating whether I should be writing this from Vienna. This week, Austria is hosting the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, a global exercise in music ...
There’s a particular kind of freedom that comes from lying on a Dalmatian pebble beach with nothing on but sunscreen. No tan lines, no swimsuit digging in. Just you, the Adriatic, and the dramatic ...
In an era when Facebook is flooded with AI images, and we genuinely pause to ask whether the Cat Olympics might be real, it’s easy to dismiss heart-shaped lakes as just another deception designed to ...
If Khao Lak is Phuket’s quieter coastal sibling, then Lam Kaen Beach is its most laid-back corner. Tucked into the southernmost part of Phang Nga’s coastal strip, with Lam Ru National Park acting as a ...