The Reality of Montreal: The Hill Above the Skyline
A skyscraper in Montreal has to know when to stop. The city measures its towers against the summit of Mount Royal, the…
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Cheap flights to Budapest: your bank card is the airport ticket
Budapest doesn't give arriving passengers an airport train to hunt down. It gives them a bus that does the job, runs around…
The Reality of Brussels: Where Comics Climb the Walls
Turn into a side street in Brussels and a gable that should be blank has grown figures, outlines and a scene that…
Cheap flights to Málaga: let the train line choose the room
Before I book Málaga, I want the hotel pin on a map. The airport sits on a commuter railway that can carry…
The Reality of Milan: The Cathedral That Came by Water
The marble under your hand on the roof of Milan Cathedral was cut in the mountains north of Lake Maggiore, and it…
Cheap flights to Edinburgh: pick the door before the fare
Flight search results make Edinburgh look like a single destination with a single price. It has two doors: the tram outside the…
The Reality of Split: The Town Inside an Emperor’s Palace
A café chair on Split's Peristyle can sit beside a Roman column without either object seeming misplaced. That is the clue. Diocletian,…
Cheap flights to Florence: choose the airport by the train into town
A cheap ticket to Florence is not necessarily a ticket to Florence Airport. From the States, I would judge the booking by…
The Reality of Amsterdam: The Houses Built for Hoisting
Amsterdam's canal houses make convincing scenery. Stand on a bridge and the brick fronts line up along the water, gable after gable,…
Cheap flights to Chiang Mai: choose the connection before the booking
A cheap flight to Chiang Mai can be a bad booking with a nice headline. From the States, the plane does not…
The Reality of Bordeaux: The City Facing the River
Stand on the Garonne quay and Bordeaux stops looking like a city that happens to have a river. The water bends in…
Cheap flights to Hanoi: Noi Bai is not the city
A cheap ticket to Hanoi gets you to Noi Bai. That is not the same thing as getting you to Hanoi. The…