The Reality of Yerevan: The Capital Older Than Rome
In a museum on a hill at the southern edge of Yerevan there is a slab of basalt with wedge-shaped marks cut…
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Cheap flights to Yerevan: the London nonstop that just appeared, the one-stop menu, and the airport bus that isn’t the one you’ve read about
Here is the mistake I want you to avoid, because it is the single most common thing written wrong about arriving in…
The Reality of Riga: The City One Boom Built
Stand at the top of Alberta iela at about nine in the morning, before the tour groups arrive, and look up rather…
Cheap flights to Riga: the airBaltic hub, the airport 15 minutes out, and one ticket to three capitals
For years my standing advice on late arrivals in Riga was three digits long: get the 322. It was the night bus,…
The Reality of Dubrovnik: The Republic of Libertas
Come out of the Pile Gate tunnel at eight in the morning and the first thing you meet is the light coming…
Cheap flights to Dubrovnik: the airport behind the mountain, the city with no railway, and the season that switches the map off
The first time I planned a Dalmatian trip I did the sensible European thing and looked up the train. Split to Dubrovnik,…
The Reality of Stockholm: The City the Water Built
The boat pulls in at Slussen and nobody looks up. A woman with two supermarket bags steps aboard the way you would…
Cheap flights to Stockholm: three airports wearing one name, the 18-minute train, and when the light comes back
I once booked a Stockholm fare that was so much cheaper than the others I congratulated myself on the way to the…
The Reality of Prague: The City the Bombs Missed — and What a Real Centre Costs
There is a corner of Old Town Square that nobody photographs. It is on the north side, beside the town hall: a…
Cheap flights to Prague: the airport with no train, the terminal split that matters, and when the fairy-tale city is actually cheap
The first time I flew into Prague I did the thing I tell everyone else not to do: I assumed. Every capital…
The Reality of Fez: the city that never let the car in — what a medieval city sounds like when nothing has an engine
Fes el-Bali is widely cited by convention as the largest car-free urban area in the world. The medina's lanes are simply too…
Cheap flights to Marrakesh: the low-cost boom into RAK, the airport six kilometres from the square, and the summer the fares invert
On one of my early trips to North Africa, I booked a cheap flight to Marrakesh, planning to spend my summer exploring…