Travel Blogs

Between 2011 and 2018, HBO filmed Game of Thrones across four Croatian cities, transforming medieval old towns and Roman ruins into the capitals of Westeros and Essos without building a single set. Croatia became the most-used non-British filming location in...

Argentina’s Lake District is Patagonia at its most accessible. Instead of the glaciers and bare steppe farther south, this part of the country is a landscape of deep blue lakes, forested mountains, small alpine towns and roads that seem designed...

Croatia has spent the last decade quietly becoming one of the Adriatic’s most rewarding destinations, not just for its walled cities and island-hopping, but for how it treats the LGBTQ+ travellers who visit them. This guide covers everything worth knowing...

Ask most travellers what Croatia tastes like, and they will describe an oyster in Ston or a glass of wine on the Dalmatian coast. Ask a Croatian, and they will likely point north, to Istria, the wedge-shaped peninsula bordering Slovenia...

Iguazu Falls is one of those places that feels almost impossible to take in at once. Hundreds of cascades thunder through the rainforest on the border of Argentina and Brazil, sending mist high above the river and turning even a...

Few honeymoon destinations offer as much variety as Argentina. Start in Buenos Aires with grand hotels, late dinners and neighbourhoods made for exploring on foot. From there, you can fly west to Mendoza for vineyard stays beneath the Andes, or...

Cambodia tends to arrive on a travel list for one reason: Angkor Wat, and the sprawling temple complex that surrounds it. It stays on that list, and gets booked, for a longer set of reasons that have less to do...

Vietnam and Cambodia sit close enough together, and complement each other well enough, that most travellers weighing one against the other eventually realize the better question is not which country to choose, but which one to see first. This guide...

Ask a handful of travellers to name the most beautiful island in the Indian Ocean, and Mauritius comes up more often than almost anywhere else. Ask an LGBTQ+ traveller the same question a decade ago, and the answer might have...

Oktoberfest is the world’s largest Volksfest, and in 2026 it runs from September 19 to October 4, drawing somewhere around seven million visitors to Munich’s Theresienwiese for two and a half weeks of beer, brass bands, and Bavarian tradition on...

Germany all but invented the Christmas market, and with more than 3,000 running across the country each December, deciding where to go is the hardest part. Two markets in particular deserve top billing for LGBTQ+ travellers specifically, and beyond them,...

Did you know the Disney castle silhouette, the one every child recognizes before they can read, was never dreamed up in a studio at all? It came from a real castle in Bavaria, built by a king whose private life...