Capri gets 2 to 3 million visitors a year onto an island of four square miles with about 12,000 residents. In August it’s genuinely difficult to walk down the main street. It’s also one of the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean, which is why the Romans built villas here and why everyone’s been arguing […]
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The Dolomites don’t look like the rest of the Alps. They’re pale grey limestone that goes pink at dusk, they stand up in vertical slabs and towers rather than snowy cones, and they were a coral reef about 250 million years ago. They’re also in Italy, though large parts of them speak German and a
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Puglia is the heel of Italy, and for about thirty years it was the bit everyone drove past on the way to somewhere else. That has changed considerably. What’s here: whitewashed hill towns, olive trees that are genuinely a thousand years old, a coastline with water clearer than most of the Mediterranean, and food that’s
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The Florida Keys are 113 miles of islands strung out into the Gulf on a single road with 42 bridges. You start in the Everglades and finish 90 miles from Cuba. The drive is the thing. But a lot of people treat the Keys as a corridor to Key West and blow past everything in
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You’ve got one trip, probably a week, and three islands people keep recommending. Everyone you ask gives a different answer and says it with total confidence. So let’s cut through it. These islands are genuinely different, they suit different trips, and picking wrong is the difference between a great holiday and a slightly frustrated one.
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Seattle has an image problem. People arrive expecting rain, coffee and grunge, which is roughly like going to Paris for the berets. What’s actually here: a city wedged between a sound and a lake with two volcanoes visible on a clear day, some of the best seafood in the country, and neighbourhoods that feel like
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Five national parks, roughly 1,000 miles of driving, and some of the strangest rock on the planet. Utah’s Mighty 5 is the best road trip in America and it’s very easy to do it badly. The classic mistake is trying to fit it into five days because there are five parks. That maths does not
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Everyone goes to Vermont in October to photograph trees. Fair enough, the trees are extraordinary. But you can only take so many pictures of a hillside before you want something to actually do, and this is where most foliage trips fall apart. Three days of driving and stopping at pull-offs gets old faster than people
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Boston is the rare American city where walking actually works. It’s small, it’s old by American standards, and the good bits are stacked on top of each other rather than spread across forty miles of freeway. Three days is genuinely the right amount. You can do the history, eat well, get across the river to
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Acadia is small for a national park. About 49,000 acres, most of it on an island you can drive around in ninety minutes, and yet somehow it packs in granite cliffs, a fjord, twenty-six mountains and a working fishing town. Two days is genuinely enough here, which you cannot say about most parks. You can
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