Portraits of places, cultures, and journeys—and the stories they tell.
Europe
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London has been our gateway to Europe many times — four stopovers by now, when we had to spend the night. From all those times, I’ve realized this city can come in many shapes and forms, and every one of them is unmistakably Londonese
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United States
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How did Rockport manage to put itself on my travel map? I was simply looking for a place to spend Memorial Day weekend — somewhere to give my summer a proper kickoff.
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Asia
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Asia
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Southeast Asia
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I haven’t lived in the travel writing world long enough, but I have seen titles like “How traveling to that place changed me” so many times that I eventually started rolling my eyes every time I see one.
Maybe one day I’ll want to write it too, but now I only think that living in a place long enough can really change you. Visiting multiple places can just show you many things and teach you something if you are willing to learn. Every place has stories to tell, kind people to be grateful for, and memories you want to keep or you don’t.
If any of my American friends who have never traveled abroad want a softer landing on foreign soil, I’d suggest starting with an English-speaking country, especially another former British colony.
I never really wanted to go to Paris. To me, it was a place of clichés—overrun by tourists, overrated, overpriced.
We see a girl with a Russian passport in an airport passport control queue. Her nails are painted yellow and blue. An old Italian hangs a Ukrainian flag on the balcony in glamorous Positano. There is an inscription on a wall with graffiti that the local punks think about Putin in dirty Naples.
В то лето Америка сорвалась с цепи. Все срочно захотели отомстить ковиду. Самые популярные национальные парки были переполнены. Цены на гостиницы и машины взлетели так, что было ясно - на материковой части Штатов ловить этим летом нечего.