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Worth the eleven hours: long-haul trips that still repay the journey
A long flight has to buy something unavailable closer to home. These trips clear that bar in 2026, and two celebrated ones now struggle to.
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What 300 Pounds Covers in Europe Now: City Breaks Priced by the Basket
The Post Office prices the same twelve items in 50 cities. Sarajevo comes out at 248 pounds and Oslo at 734, and the gap is not where most people assume.
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Twelve Eruptions and a Lodging Tax: The Ring Road Now
Reykjanes has erupted twelve times since 2021, the accommodation tax came back and then rose, and the government has signalled it wants more of tourism's margin.
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Porto, Hoi An and Kyoto: three old towns, three answers to the same crowd problem
One charges a small nightly tax, one sells a ticket at the entrance, one has priced the top of the market. What each approach means for a week on foot.
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Oaxaca’s 210-Peso Gate
INAH more than doubled admission to Monte Alban and Mitla on 1 January 2026. That, two Mondays in July and a weekly market rota set the shape of an Oaxaca trip.
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Medellin Past the Slogan: The City That Regulated Its Own Boom
1.2 million foreign visitors in 2025, a sex-work ban in the neighbourhoods those visitors fill, and a national advisory at Level 3. The transformation story came with conditions.
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Kyoto is at record crowds and Oaxaca is half empty: two heritage cities in opposite trouble
One raised its lodging tax tenfold at the top end in March 2026. The other saw festival occupancy fall to 38 per cent. The same trip, two very different problems.
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Hoi An After 5.62 Metres
The Thu Bon broke a record that had stood since 1964, the province Hoi An belonged to no longer exists, and the Old Town ticket now comes in two tiers.
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Cape Town or the Scottish Highlands for a two-week self-drive
Both are big-landscape driving trips with a coast road at their heart. The differences that matter are crime advice, daylight and what the car actually costs.
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Where the sun actually is in January, sorted by hours in the air
Cape Verde for a fortnight, Oman for dry heat and empty roads, and a blunt look at what the Canaries now cost and charge.
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Traveling Abroad? Here’s Why More Travelers Are Switching to eSIMs
Landing in a new country should be exciting. Instead, for many travelers, the first few minutes look something like this: Searching for airport Wi-Fi. Trying to
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Take the slow way: weekends where the journey is the point
Paddington to Penzance in a berth, Harwich to the Hook by ship, and a new Paris to Berlin sleeper. Plus when the long way simply costs too much.
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