Seattle is a great city that people quietly get bored of after about three days. Pike Place, the Space Needle, a coffee, some rain, done. Meanwhile there’s a 4,392-metre volcano an hour and a half away that most visitors never bother with. Washington state might have the best day-trip radius of anywhere in America. Within
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Rome has roughly 12,000 places to eat and a solid chunk of them are actively trying to rip you off. Sorry, but that’s the situation. Walk within 200 metres of the Colosseum and you’ll find laminated menus with photos on them, a guy outside saying “amico, come, come”, and carbonara made with cream. The good
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Two things happen when you google Antelope Canyon. First, you see a photo so absurdly beautiful you assume it’s been edited into another dimension. Second, you find out you can’t just walk in, and the whole thing gets complicated fast. Let’s untangle it. Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend sit within about 15 minutes of each
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Ever opened a Barcelona flight at 1am, stared at it for a while, then closed the tab because you remembered what Las Ramblas feels like in August? Same. Spain is brilliant. Spain’s two biggest cities in high season are a different sport entirely. So here’s the thing nobody puts on a postcard: the good version
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Nobody warns you about the first night. They tell you solo travel is liberating and transformative, and then you’re sitting on a hotel bed at 8pm in a country where you don’t speak the language, wondering what on earth you’ve done. This is nearly universal. It’s not a sign you’ve made a mistake, and it
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Yellowstone gets around 4 million visitors a year and the overwhelming majority of them come between June and August. The park was designed in 1872 for horses. The roads, the car parks and the boardwalks have not scaled with the crowds, and summer is where that collides. None of this means don’t go. It means
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Everyone photographs the Colosseum. It’s a fine building and your photo will look exactly like the four hundred million that already exist. Rome’s real photographic quality is in its smaller, stranger corners: keyholes, staircases, orange trees, courtyards you have to know about. Here are the spots worth setting an alarm for, and roughly when the
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Almost everyone who comes to Moab does the same thing: Arches National Park, Delicate Arch, a photo, and back to the hotel. Arches is wonderful. It’s also 3 percent of what’s within half an hour of this town, and it now requires timed entry reservations while everything else on this list does not. Moab sits
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Here’s the small, slightly sad problem with travelling alone: you come home with 400 photographs of buildings and none of yourself. And the ones you do have are arm’s-length selfies with a nostril angle and half a cathedral behind your head. This is entirely fixable and it doesn’t require asking strangers or buying much. Here’s
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Barcelona has a reputation as an affordable Mediterranean city and that reputation is roughly a decade out of date. It is still cheaper than London, Paris, Amsterdam or Dublin. It is no longer cheaper than Madrid on rent, and it is a long way off Valencia. Here’s what it actually costs, and where the money
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