Art
Pontormo Rome Exhibition: Play Pontormo’s Pantone Guessing Game®
The Pontormo Rome exhibition opens in October. Here is a better use of the wait than counting down days: thirteen of his...
Travel
Calcio Storico Fiorentino: A Spectator’s Day Inside Florence’s Most Brutal Tradition
Once a year Florence licenses its oldest instinct. Between a Renaissance procession of staggering beauty and a sand pitch where twenty-seven men...
Travel
The Maasai of Tanzania: Noble Warriors, Backward Pastoralists, or Simply in the Way?
Who are the Maasai of Tanzania? Their real history, the Ngorongoro and Loliondo evictions, and whether tourist village visits are anything but...
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...