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Taipei Is the Best City in Asia That Nobody Puts on Their List — and That’s Their Loss
There is a conversation that happens among people who have travelled seriously in Asia, usually after someone has spent time in Taipei, and it goes…
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Sarajevo Is the City Where Every Century Left Something Behind
There is a street corner in Sarajevo where you can stand and see, in a single turning of the head, an Ottoman mosque, an Austro-Hungarian…
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Syrian Food: The Cuisine at the Heart of the Levant That the World Needs to Know
Syria sits at the geographical and historical centre of the Fertile Crescent — the arc of land between the Tigris, Euphrates, and Mediterranean where agriculture…
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Oaxacan Food: The Mexican State That Cooks the Most Extraordinary Food in the Country
Mexico has thirty-one states and the food of each of them is sufficiently distinct that a person who spent a year eating their way through…
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Fez Is the City That Shows You What the Medieval World Actually Looked Like
There are cities that feel old. And then there is Fez. Fez el-Bali — the old medina of Fez, founded in the 9th century and…
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Dubrovnik Is Worth It. You Just Have to Go at the Right Time.
The honest version of a Dubrovnik travel guide has to begin with the problem, because the problem is real and pretending otherwise does nobody a…
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Tallinn Is the Medieval City That Time Forgot to Ruin
Most medieval cities in Europe exist in fragments — a cathedral here, a castle wall there, a single preserved street surrounded by centuries of rebuilding…
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Medellín Is the Most Surprising City Turnaround in the World and It’s Still Going
In 1991, Medellín had a murder rate of 381 per 100,000 people — the highest of any city on earth, in a country that was…
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Nepali Food: The Himalayan Kitchen That Feeds the World’s Highest Mountains
Nepal is a country the shape of a rectangle drawn carelessly across the southern slopes of the Himalayas — 800 kilometres long and between 150…
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Basque Food Is Not Spanish Food. It Is Better. There, We Said It.
The Basque Country — the coastal region straddling the border between northern Spain and southwestern France, centred on San Sebastián, Bilbao, and Biarritz — has…
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Oman’s Interior Is the Most Beautiful Place in the Middle East That Nobody Talks About
Everyone who goes to the Gulf goes to Dubai. The malls, the skyscrapers, the restaurants, the desert safari that takes you forty minutes from a…
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Lisbon Is the European City That Does Everything Right and Somehow Stays Humble About It
There is a quality of light in Lisbon that photographers talk about the way musicians talk about acoustics — as something structural, built into the…