Image source The wedding gets the spreadsheets, the vendor calls, the color-coded timelines, and eighteen months of sustained attention. The honeymoon, by contrast, tends to get whatever energy is left over, which by the final weeks of wedding planning is frequently very little. A destination gets chosen, a resort gets booked, and the details get sorted at some point between the seating chart and...

Image source The animals are real. Everything else depends entirely on the decisions you make before you leave. There is a moment on a first safari that no amount of preparation quite readies you for. The vehicle stops. The guide cuts the engine. Fifty meters away, a leopard is lying along a branch with the complete indifference of an animal that has never needed...

Image source The ocean covers most of this planet. Choosing where to enter it matters more than most people realize. Scuba diving holidays occupy a strange position in travel. On the surface, the decision seems simple enough: you want to be underwater, you want the water to be warm and clear, you want to see things worth seeing. Book accordingly. But anyone who has...

Image source The best islands right now are the ones most people fly over on the way to somewhere else. There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes from finally visiting an island you've wanted to see for years. The water is exactly as blue as the photographs promised. The sunsets deliver. And yet something is off — the taverna that used to...

Image source The crowds will be at the usual places. These destinations reward everyone else. Every summer, the same conversation happens. Someone mentions they're thinking about Santorini and someone else mentions they were just there and it was so crowded they could barely move. Someone brings up Barcelona and the table nods, knowingly. The places everyone wants to go have become, in a certain...