Fantasy Friday: Bruges Coulda Been a Contender
Bruges is crazy beautiful. Every bit as pretty as you’d expect a Hanseatic canal city to be, and even more opulent too. Particularly in January,...
Category: Places
Fantasy Friday: the Hameau
Inspiration for a myriad Middle Eastern dictators, sundry competing Habsburgs, and, of course, the Trump Organization, Versailles needs no introduction. It’s as big, and as...
Fantasy Friday: the Matterhorn
Zermatt, a painstakingly gorgeous Swiss valley town, where medieval hay barns preserved complete with hay do battle with watch stores, designer ski wear outlets and...
Fantasy Friday: Fun in the Thun
Switzerland in winter is every bit as beautiful as you imagine it. Limpid mountain lakes; proper snow-capped Alps; cutesy choo-choo cogwheel trains; clumps of snow...
Fantasy Friday: Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik Old Town is as beautiful as you think it is, likely more so, especially on a cool, clear February morning when the shuffling cruise...
Ten Best Things to Do in Kuala Lumpur
A city whose name quite literally means “muddy river junction”, Kuala Lumpur often loses out on visitors compared to the heritage charms of Penang or...
Ten Reasons You Should Totally Visit Hangzhou
To Chinese, the city of Hangzhou, a budget airline hub that’s under an hour from Shanghai by bullet train, encapsulates the cultured, artistic leisure of...
Six of the Best Places to Beat the Crowds on Bali
One of the most bizarre elements of life on Bali is how very concentrated tourism is. Chinese tour groups seem to cluster in the Bukit...
Where to Get the Best Views of Bali’s Volcano
There are a few natural phenomena that truly impress: total eclipses, calving glaciers, avalanches, tornadoes and, yes, erupting volcanoes. Back in November, we were lucky...
Is It Safe to Travel to Bali with the Volcano Erupting?
Last updated on 29 December 2017. In mid-September, Agung, Bali’s sacred volcano, which has effectively been sleeping for the last half century or so, woke...