Editorials
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Game of Thrones Filming Locations in Croatia: The Complete Guide
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 the entire series, and nearly a decade after the show ended, its old towns are still full of fans tracing the same cobbled streets Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister once walked.
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Bariloche and Argentina’s Lake District: A Luxury Travel Guide
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 for stopping every few miles. The region stretches through northern Patagonia, with Bariloche, Villa La Angostura and San Martín de los Andes forming the most useful route for a first trip.
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Ultimate Guide to Gay Travel in Croatia
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 before booking a trip. Is Croatia Gay-Friendly? Croatia has made real, measurable progress on LGBTQ+ rights over the past two decades.
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Istria Food & Wine Guide: Croatia’s Best-Kept Culinary Secret
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 and Italy that produces the country's best truffles, its most distinctive wines, and a version of Croatian food that owes as much to Venice as it does to the Adriatic.
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Which Side of Iguazu Falls Is Better: Argentina or Brazil?
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 short walk into something cinematic. But the two sides offer surprisingly different experiences.
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Plan Your Gay Honeymoon in Argentina
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 south to Patagonia for glaciers, mountains and remote luxury lodges. Argentina is also a great choice for LGBTQ+ honeymooners.
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Ultimate Guide to Gay Travel in Cambodia
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 with any single sight and more to do with the country as a whole.
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Vietnam or Cambodia: Which Should Come First on Your Southeast Asia Trip?
Vietnam and Cambodia sit close enough together, and complement each other well enough, that most travellers weighing one against the other eventually realise the better question is not which country to choose, but which one to see first. This guide is built around that second question, since the honest answer is that both countries reward a visit, and the order in which you see them changes the trip more than most travellers expect.
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Ultimate Guide to Gay Travel in Mauritius
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 come with a hesitation. Today, that hesitation has largely disappeared, and this guide exists to explain exactly why, along with everything else worth knowing before booking a trip.
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Oktoberfest: A Gay Travel Guide
Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest, drawing millions of visitors to Munich's Theresienwiese each year for more than two weeks of beer, brass bands and Bavarian tradition on a staggering scale. What fewer people know is that it's also home to one of Europe's longest-running LGBTQ+ traditions hiding inside a much bigger festival, one that's been building for more than forty years.
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The Best Christmas Markets in Germany for Gay Travellers
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, Germany's classic markets are worth building a trip around regardless of who you're travelling with.
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Disney’s German Roots: The Real Fairy Tale Trail
Did you know the Disney castle silhouette, the one every child recognises 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 had no place in the world he was born into.
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