Food
What Not to Eat in Egypt: Koshari.
The dreaded Koshari: the monumental collective prank Egypt played on the world
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
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...
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 Built From an Archive, Not a Guess
Flâneur: an itinerary engine for people who travel because of the art. Eleven cities, 22,000 catalogued works, three traveller profiles, a thousand...
Travel
Tharros (Sardinia): The City That Is Almost Entirely Somewhere Else
Ruins by the sea and columns against the blue: everything a brochure wants. But most of what Tharros once held is scattered...
Travel
Language in Sardinia: An Island That Speaks for Itself
Call Sardinian a dialect and you will start a fight, and for once the linguists side with the locals. One island, many...