Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, sitting at 1,900 metres on the California and Nevada border, and it is one of very few places that is genuinely a headline destination in two completely different seasons. Most places have an obvious best time. Tahoe doesn’t. It has two, and they suit different
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Verona sits between Milan and Venice, and most people either skip it or give it two hours built entirely around a balcony that was added to a building in the 1930s. Which is a shame, because Verona has a Roman amphitheatre still in use, a genuinely lovely river, and one of the best squares in
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Hawaii is the most photographed place a lot of people never quite understand before they arrive. The pictures show beaches and waterfalls. They don’t show the drive times, the prices, or the fact that it rains. None of this is a reason not to go. It’s the most extraordinary place in the United States and
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Both are in northern Italy, both have mountains, both have ferries and pretty towns. And people booking a first trip to the Italian lakes agonise over which one for weeks. They are genuinely different, and the right answer depends almost entirely on who you’re travelling with and what you want to do all day. Here’s
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I live in Spain, so this is written from the inside rather than from a fortnight’s holiday. The short version: Spain is one of the easiest countries in Europe for a woman travelling alone, and the things that make it easy are not the things people usually list. Here’s what it’s actually like day to
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Philadelphia sits between New York and Washington and gets treated as a stop rather than a destination, which is a mistake that works in your favour. It’s the birthplace of the country, it has the best food market in America, an art museum in the top rank, and prices roughly half what you’d pay ninety
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Two days in Rome is not enough. Let’s get that out of the way, because every guide pretends otherwise and then hands you a list of nine things per day. What two days is enough for: the ancient core, the Baroque centre, one great meal a day, and one evening that you’ll actually remember. The
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Glacier is up against the Canadian border in northern Montana, and it is the most consistently spectacular national park in the lower 48. That’s a claim, and I’ll defend it. What it has that the others don’t: peaks that go straight up out of lakes, water in colours that look edited, and a road cut
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Almost everything written about solo travel is aimed at someone in their twenties with a backpack, a hostel bunk and unlimited time. That’s a small slice of the people actually doing it. The fastest growing group of solo travellers is over 40, and a lot of them are doing it after a divorce, after the
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Jet lag is not tiredness. That’s the thing most advice gets wrong. It’s a mismatch between your body clock and local time. Your circadian rhythm is still running on the old timezone, telling you to sleep, eat and release hormones on a schedule that no longer matches the world outside. Which is why sleeping on
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