Category: Features
The fifteen-minute city, tested on foot
Paris, Barcelona and Milan have redrawn streets around walking. What it feels like as a visitor, three years in.
How to choose a seat without paying for it
Seat fees are now the second-largest ancillary revenue line for most carriers. A few structural facts still let you avoid them.
Who repairs a medina?
In Fez, Jeddah and Cairo, the money for restoration increasingly comes from tourism. That solves one problem and creates another.
What reef recovery actually looks like
Coral restoration has become a tourism product. Some of it is meaningful science and some of it is decoration. How to tell…
Japan by local train, not bullet train
The Shinkansen is magnificent and it skips everything. Six regional lines that show a country the express network cannot.
The case for going in November
Lower prices, shorter queues and a version of the city its residents actually recognise. What you give up, and what you get.
Where to find a genuinely dark sky
Light pollution now reaches 80% of the world's population. These are the reserves, seasons and simple techniques that still deliver a full…
Eating along the Douro, slowly
A four-day route from Porto upriver, with the wine, the tinned fish and the stops that reward taking the regional train instead…
The conservancy model that changed the safari
In Kenya's Mara and Laikipia, land leased from Maasai and Samburu families now protects more habitat than the national parks. Here's how…
Why half of northern Europe is now swimming in January
Sea pools, saunas and a habit that went from eccentricity to civic infrastructure in about five years.