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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Key West is closer to Havana than to Miami, four miles long by two wide, and has spent most of its history being a slightly lawless island that happens to belong to the United States. It briefly declared independence in 1982 as the Conch Republic, surrendered after one minute, and applied for foreign aid. That
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San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas and it feels nothing like the first. It’s older, slower, more Mexican, and built around a river rather than a freeway. It’s also the most walkable major city in the state, which in Texas is close to a miracle. Three days covers it properly. Here’s how.
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Most people’s idea of Texas is flat, brown and enormous. The Hill Country is none of those things. It’s a limestone plateau west of Austin and north of San Antonio, all rolling hills, spring-fed rivers, oak groves and small towns founded by German settlers in the 1840s. There are vineyards. There are peach orchards. You
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Both are in Andalusia, both are warm, both are much cheaper than Madrid or Barcelona, and people considering one usually consider the other. They are not remotely the same city to live in, though. One is inland, historic and intensely Spanish. The other is on the sea, international and changing fast. Here’s how they actually
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Italy is forgiving. Nobody’s going to ruin your trip because you ordered a cappuccino after lunch, whatever the internet says. But there are a handful of mistakes that genuinely cost people money, time or a decent meal, and almost everyone makes at least three of them on a first visit. Here they are, in rough
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Big Sur is 90 miles of Highway 1 between Carmel and San Simeon, cut into a mountainside that falls straight into the Pacific. It has no towns to speak of, one traffic light in the entire stretch, and almost no phone signal. Most people drive it in three hours as part of getting somewhere else,
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Milan gets a rough deal from travellers. It’s the city people fly into on the way to the lakes, give a day to, and write off as grey, businesslike and not proper Italy. Some of that’s fair. It was heavily bombed in the war, rebuilt fast, and it does not look like Florence. But it
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Washington DC has some of the best museums in the world and they’re free, which is a genuinely remarkable thing. It’s also why most visitors spend three days indoors, come out blinking, and go home having seen a city entirely through its exhibition halls. There’s a real place here with neighbourhoods, parks, markets and a
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