Plovdiv has been continuously inhabited for approximately 8,000 years, making it among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world — older than Rome, older…

There is a photograph — taken at Deadvlei, in the Namib Desert, at sunrise — that circulates widely enough in travel photography circles that most…

Italy is the most overdescribed travel destination in Europe and possibly in the world. The superlatives have been used up by Rome and Florence and…

The concept of a living city inside a Roman palace sounds like the premise of a historical novel. In Split, it is simply Tuesday. Diocletian’s…

Most cities give you a moment to find your bearings. You arrive, you check in, you walk out into the street and the city reveals…

The comparison between Porto and Lisbon is the Portuguese version of a conversation that exists in most countries with two significant cities: which one is…

The photographs of Cartagena are accurate. This is the first thing worth establishing, because the photographs of most famous places are not accurate — they…

Japan’s tourism infrastructure is so good, and so thoroughly documented, that a visitor arriving for the first time will almost inevitably follow the same route:…

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…

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…

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…

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…