15 Practical Skills You Can Build While Traveling
A changed train platform, a menu you cannot quite read, an afternoon with more possibilities than hours: travel gives you plenty of small p...
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Travel Planning: Build a Trip That Fits You
The best itinerary is one you can enjoy at your own pace. Use these travel planning guides to choose a destination, compare routes and decide how much you can comfortably fit into a day. Start with your available time and budget, then build a route around the places and experiences that matter most to you.
Our destination stories add context to the planning: how places connect, what deserves a longer stop and where a simpler route can make the trip more rewarding. Check current opening arrangements and transport information before committing to a booking.
Start with Azores Travel Guide: Beautiful Islands, Smarter Planning and Your First Solo Trip: 9 Steps to Plan It and Enjoy It.
Your First Solo Trip: 9 Steps to Plan It and Enjoy It
Your first solo trip does not need to begin with a one-way ticket or a life-changing announcement. It can start with a place you would like...
5 Unusual Hotels Worth Understanding Before You Book
Some hotels make the room part of the destination. You might sleep inside a sphere among trees, look out from a converted aircraft or wake t...
Travel Expectations vs Reality: Make the Real Trip Better
The beach looks empty. The museum gallery looks silent. The person in the photograph seems to have an entire famous landmark to themselves. ...
13 Signs You Love Travel—and Ways to Enjoy That Curiosity
You do not need a passport full of stamps to have a travelling mind. Sometimes it shows up as a saved map, a question about an unfamiliar in...
Graham Hughes: Around the World Without Flying
Imagine planning a journey where the quickest answer is always off the table. An ocean cannot be crossed with a flight booking, and the next...
Sharing a Life With Someone Who Loves to Travel
Falling for someone who loves to travel can mean falling into some wonderful conversations. There are places to imagine, meals to remember a...
Dreamy Places to Rest: Find Your Kind of Outdoor Escape
A shaded chair, a view of moving water and enough time to open a book can feel like a small holiday inside a holiday. The dream does not alw...
Why Planning a Trip Can Be Part of the Fun
The trip has not started, but you have already found a bakery you want to try. There is a walk saved on your map, a museum that caught your...
House Sitting With Pets: A Traveller’s Practical Starting Guide
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...
The 2017 US Solar Eclipse: A Look Back and Planning Lessons
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...
Surprise Holidays With Pack Up + Go: Is the Idea for You?
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...
Passport Colours Explained: What the Cover Can Tell You
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...
Cruise-Ship Waves on Camera: Understanding a Dramatic Clip
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...
Quality-of-Life Rankings: Find What Matters to Your Move
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...
Accessible Beach Days: How to Find a Setup That Works
A good beach day begins before the sand. Getting from transport to the shore, finding a suitable toilet, keeping equipment secure and reachi...
A Travel Film That Sparks Ideas: Find Your Own Next Adventure
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...
Cassie De Pecol’s Expedition196: A Record-Sized Journey
Visiting every country is a goal so large that the planning becomes a story of its own. Cassandra “Cassie” De Pecol called her project Exped...
5 Memorable Dining Settings—and How to Choose Yours
A memorable meal can begin before the first plate arrives. The room, the approach and the view create a mood: sea air at the edge of a cave,...
Infinity Pools: Choose the View and the Stay That Suit You
An infinity pool seems to let the water continue straight into the landscape. The edge becomes difficult to pick out, the horizon takes over...