Travel-advice
12 Best Italian Islands To Visit
You book a week in southern Italy. The photos looked extraordinary — cobalt water, pastel fishing villages, cliffs dropping straight into the sea. Then the planning starts and you realize there are dozens of islands with no obvious way to compare them. Capri? Sicily? That volcanic one with the famous eruptions? The Sardinia place with […]
10 Tasty British Foods To Try In The UK
My first trip to the UK, I made every mistake in the book. I ate fish and chips near Leicester Square for £18 — soggy batter, pre-frozen chips, ketchup packets. I thought that was just what British food was. Then a local took me to a chip shop in Whitby, North Yorkshire, on a wet […]
11 Very Best Things To Do In Brittany, France
Most people planning a trip to Brittany make the same mistake: they put Mont Saint-Michel on their itinerary. That abbey is in Normandy. It sits on the Normandy side of the border, and Bretons will politely — or not so politely — correct you on that. Start by getting the geography right, because Brittany itself […]