Italy’s Cammini e Percorsi: The 2017 Public-Property Reuse Programme
A castle with your name on the door is an irresistible daydream. That is why headlines about Italy giving away historic buildings travelled ...
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How Pet House-Sitting Exchanges Work: Care, Expectations and Accommodation
A temporary home, an animal to care for and time to explore a neighbourhood can make house sitting sound like a lovely way to travel. For th...
A Hotel Guest and Housekeeper Exchange Bedding Sculptures and Notes
A hotel bed can become many things in an imaginative photograph: a face, a creature or a small piece of theatre made from pillows and folded...
The Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017: Path, Timing and Viewing Context
For a brief part of 21 August 2017, people along a narrow path across the United States watched daylight change in a way that an ordinary su...
Pack Up + Go: The Idea Behind a Surprise-Destination Holiday
Opening an envelope to discover where you are going turns a familiar travel decision into part of the adventure. That is the appeal of a sur...
Solo Travel: Seven Reminders for Independence, Company and Confidence
Solo travel can feel exciting in the morning and oddly tiring by dinner. You are making the choices, finding the way and deciding when to st...
The Bahamas Swimming-Pig Deaths: What the Report Did and Did Not Establish
The swimming pigs of the Exumas became famous through cheerful photographs: clear water, a sandy shore and animals paddling towards visiting...
THIRDHOME’s Travel-Content Job Campaign: The Historical Offer Explained
In 2017, THIRDHOME advertised a three-month assignment that sounded like an unusually generous holiday: travel between luxury properties, sh...
Blue Spaces and Wellbeing: What a Waterside Visit Can Offer
You find a comfortable place by the water, take a seat and watch the surface change with the light. Nothing especially dramatic has happened...
Passport Cover Colours: Design Choices, History and Common Misconceptions
Put a few passports side by side and the covers can look like a compact design collection: burgundy, navy, green, black, bright red and many...
Stephen Burke’s Rough-Sea Video from Anthem of the Seas, February 2016
Watching a wave rise outside a ship’s window can make the distance between a comfortable cabin and a moving ocean feel very small. A clip as...
20 AirPano Aerial Views: Cities, Streets and Monumental Sites
From the street, a city arrives in fragments: a facade, a crossing, a bridge and the next corner. From above, those fragments begin to conne...
21 Countries in a Historical Expat Quality-of-Life Ranking
One country wins on transport, another on climate, another on how easily newcomers feel at home. A quality-of-life ranking can make moving a...
10 Beach Destinations and a Practical Guide to Checking Wheelchair Access
A good beach day begins before the sand. Getting from transport to the shore, finding a suitable toilet, keeping equipment secure and reachi...
Falcons in an Aircraft Cabin: The Photograph Behind the Viral Story
Rows of aircraft seats are familiar; rows of hooded falcons sitting among them are not. That contrast made this cabin photograph an instant ...
A Short Video Exploring the Scale of the Universe
A video that keeps zooming out—from a person to Earth, from Earth to the planets, and then to the stars—can produce a wonderful feeling of d...
Jeff Williams’s View of Earth from the International Space Station
Clouds curl over a coastline, a desert changes colour across the frame and the edge of Earth curves into darkness. Views from the Internatio...
Marina Piro’s Pam the Van: Converting a Renault Kangoo for Travel
Open the rear doors of a small van and there may be room for a surprising amount of imagination. In the photographs of Marina Piro’s project...
86 Travel Gift Ideas: Maps, Accessories, Keepsakes and Useful Gadgets
The best travel gift often solves a small, familiar problem: tangled cables, an uncomfortable journey or a collection of photographs that ne...
High on Life’s Three-Year Travel Montage
A few minutes of travel film can contain years of movement: a new landscape, a burst of laughter, a quick change of country and another scen...