If Khao Lak is Phuket’s quieter coastal sibling, then Lam Kaen Beach is its most laid-back corner. Tucked into the southernmost part of Phang Nga’s coastal strip, with Lam Ru National Park acting as a ...

I canceled my bus ticket and took the first train ‘home’. Seeing how patiently he commutes (he had to pay for the train ticket, but was luckily spared the ‘seat reservation’, as he spent the entire ...

The Eurovision Song Contest Live Tour effectively concentrates all its sound systems into nine (mutually bordering) countries of the continent’s west. Indeed, nine, because Germany appears twice, with ...

You might think winter in Gran Canaria is all bikinis and sunshine, but the weather can still be unpredictable. My morning runs on Playa del Inglés beach have recently been disrupted by strong winds, ...

If you somehow missed the now-routine question of why Israel is in Eurovision but Russia isn’t, the short and utterly unconvincing answer is that the European Broadcasting Union does not compare ...

There’s a moment when you step into the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza and realise the hype didn’t exaggerate but undersold. Maybe it’s when you see sunlight spilling into the atrium through geometric ...

The hotel I’m working for this summer is adults-only. This means there is no stress induced by crying babies. Well, I guess, a tantrum-throwing adult can always show up. But strictly talking about ...

It’s absurd. A fluffy Maine Coon struts down a diving board, somersaults into the air, and slices through the water with Olympic-level finesse. Welcome to the Michi Olympics, where AI-generated cats ...

Once a year, the city of Basel swaps its lab coats and precision watches for lightsabers, horns, and an alarming number of Super Marios. Wizards ride trams. Stormtroopers line up for coffee. Princess ...

Finns competing for Sweden. A Norwegian singing for Ireland. Austrians performing for Germany. The Czech Republic cheering on a Slovak. In a contest that’s technically about nations united in music, ...

Put on your Spider-Man suit, and let’s go! What is the Bisse du Torrent Neuf? The Bisse du Torrent Neuf is part of a unique network of historic irrigation canals, called bisses, found only in ...