Food
What Not to Eat in Egypt: Koshari.
The dreaded Koshari: the monumental collective prank Egypt played on the world
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Food
Diving
Atlaua: Waterproof Notebooks Made in Sardinia for Writing Underwater (should you ever need to…)
Stone-paper pages, a neoprene cover, and you can write on them underwater with any pencil. Atlaua makes waterproof notebooks by hand in...
Travel
THE RANT. The United headphone rule: An open letter to the degenerate watching TikTok at volume 11 on the 7:43 train
United Airlines now kicks off passengers who refuse to wear headphones. A rant celebrating this glimmer of hope for civilisation, packed with...
Travel
Wild Sardinia: Nature, Stone, Wind and Scrub
Forget the Maldives caption. Sardinia's real beauty is older and harder than its beaches: a maquis you smell before you see it,...
Travel
Qatar Airways Frequent Flyer Check In Error: How to fix it
A joint check in for two separately purchased Qatar Airways tickets kept failing with a bogus frequent flyer error, one the call...
Diving
Review of the book Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Review of the book Shadow Divers, the story of two technical divers and their obsession with a U-boat wreck
Books
Review of the book The Eloquence of the Sardine by Bill François
Review of the book The Eloquence of the Sardine by Bill François. An enjoyable and occasionally surprising read for those who love...
Diving
DiveAtlas: where to dive when
A free tool that lists the dive destinations worth travelling to for a specific species, with the months when the encounter is...
Art
THE RANT: Audio Guides, God I hate them.
Audio guides: secondhand information for people who'd rather press play than open a book. A love letter to art disguised as a...
Travel
The Complete Guide to Trains in Italy
A no-nonsense guide to trains in Italy for foreign travelers: Trenitalia vs Italo, how to book, ticket validation, strikes, unwritten rules, and...
Travel
Masua and Porto Flavia (Sardinia): The Port Carved Into the Cliff
A loading port carved into a sea cliff in the 1920s, facing the tallest stack in the Mediterranean, with a beach of...
Art
Flâneur: Art Itineraries for the cultural traveler
Flâneur: an itinerary engine for people who travel because of the art. Eleven cities, 22,000 catalogued works, three traveller profiles, a thousand...