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Spain is one of those countries where most visitors see two cities — Barcelona and Madrid — and leave thinking they have seen Spain. They have…
Mexico City surprised me. I arrived with certain assumptions — the traffic, the safety concerns, the sheer scale of a metropolitan area of twenty-two million people…
The eSIM has genuinely changed how I travel. Before it existed, arriving in a new country meant either paying extortionate roaming charges, queuing at an airport…
Turkey is one of those countries that keeps confounding your expectations. I first came expecting mosques, bazaars and beaches — and found all three — but…
London is one of the best cities in the world for day trips by train, and most visitors to the UK do not know half of…
The Cotswolds has a reputation for being either the most beautiful rural landscape in England or an outdoor museum of honey-stone villages preserved for wealthy second-home…
London is one of the most visited cities in the world and most of its visitors see roughly the same square kilometre of it: the area…
Machu Picchu is one of those places where the photographs prepare you for something extraordinary and the reality still exceeds them. I arrived at the Sun…
Most people who visit Peru see Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. That circuit is extraordinary and entirely worth doing. It is also about five…
I landed in Cusco on a clear afternoon, walked up the stairs from the baggage hall to the taxi rank, and by the time I reached…