A Statue Draped With Snakes? In Italy, It Happens Every Year.

It was the morning of May 1, and the Italian village of Cocullo was almost unrecognizable. The typical placidity of ...
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Delta Backs Down on SkyMiles Changes After Outcry

Delta Air Lines will make “modifications” to its SkyMiles frequent flier program after receiving negative feedback from customers to changes ...
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How to Navigate the Unpredictability of Travel in the Age of Climate Change

Kia Karjalainen and her sister were vacationing in Greece when things took an unexpected turn. “We were in our hotel ...
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Travelers Who Need Visas to Visit Europe Face a Monthslong Wait

For most travelers from the United States, going to Europe is a relatively smooth experience, without the need to apply ...
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In Mountain View, Ark., Preserving the Ozark Way of Life

A merciful evening breeze kicked up, swatting away the Arkansas heat and giving wing to the melodies coming from two ...
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5 Places to See Spectacular Foliage This Fall

Heat domes, droughts, smoky skies, tropical deluges: After a record-breaking summer of extreme weather events, dare we dream of crisp ...
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A Local’s Guide to Portland, Maine and Beyond

T’s monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you might already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent ...
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Block Island’s Nature Preserves Offer Solitude and Wildlife

Had I stepped into a scene from “Planet of the Gulls”? The sky resonated with the sound of flapping wings, ...
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The Police Seized My Rental Car Reported Stolen and Avis Won’t Refund Me

Dear Tripped Up,In late May, I flew with my daughter from California to Kennedy International Airport in New York, where ...
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How to Get the Best Foreign Exchange Rate

Using foreign money wisely requires understanding the going exchange rate with the U. S. dollar and practicing the following strategies ...
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Ancient Earthworks Trodden by Golfers Become a World Heritage Site

Nine months after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a country club must sell its lease to the state historical ...
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A Q&A With Delta Air Lines’s Meteorologist

From thunderstorms and limited visibility to scorching temperatures and turbulence, the weather dictates when and where planes can fly. Severe ...
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Discovering Albania’s Timeless Vjosa River

“Farmers here are the caretakers of culture,” said Ms. Bejo, who acts as Albanik’s gardener, concierge, yoga instructor and hiking ...
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Whales, From Above

Sutton Lynch rises most days before the sun, arriving at Atlantic Beach in Amagansett, N.Y., for the early-morning calm. It’s ...
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Venice Keeps Off UNESCO World Heritage Danger List

Venice will not be included on UNESCO’s list of “World Heritage in Danger” after a panel voted on Thursday to ...
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Morocco Earthquake and Travel: What Tourists Should Know

Some of the world’s most popular tourist destinations — Turkey, Greece, Hawaii and, now, Morocco — have been ravaged by ...
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Sam Heughan’s 5 Favorite Places in Glasgow

“The part of ‘Outlander’ that I love the most is the history: the clan culture, the folklore and back stories ...
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Read Your Way Through Seoul

What books are good for savoring the layers of time in the city?One of the most captivating books from my ...
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Paddle Boarding Florida’s ‘Spring Runs’

“That sounds like a baby gator. Did you hear it?” We stopped paddling and listened. Leaves rustled, there was the ...
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What Are Your Favorite Travel Hacks?

Did you know that on most airplanes, you can raise the armrest nearest to the aisle — the one that ...
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A Long Walk on Prince Edward Island

Never underestimate the difficulty of a flat trail over a great distance. After my first five-hour day following the Island ...
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Travel Rewards Cards: How to Maximize Points, Perks and Miles

Sign-up bonuses, lounge access, cash rebates, free hotel rooms and plenty of fine print: The dizzying promotions and Byzantine rules ...
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Bali Elevator Plunges Into Ravine, Killing 5

The police in the Indonesian resort island of Bali are investigating how the cable of an elevator car snapped at ...
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UK Air Traffic Control Chaos Was a ‘1 in 15 Million’ Problem

The technical failure that led to hundreds of flight cancellations and severe disruptions for thousands of people traveling in and ...
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What to Know About New Airbnb Regulations in NYC

New York City officials on Tuesday are expected to start enforcing strict new regulations that limit residents’ ability to rent ...
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Canada Issues Travel Warning for L.G.B.T.Q. Citizens Visiting U.S.

The Canadian government is warning L.G.B.T.Q. travelers to the United States that they may be affected by a series of ...
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Travel Apps and Websites for Last-Minute Labor Day Plans

Finding accommodationsIf you found a flight but aren’t purchasing a package, you’ll most likely need a place to stay. HotelTonight ...
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How to Eat, Drink and Gallery Hop Like a Seoul Local

South Korea’s capital is electric. Among its neon lights, K-pop and fast-paced energy, you can feel the current, the hum ...
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Tripped Up: A Traveler Says Her Insurance Wouldn’t Pay Up

Dear Tripped Up,I’m a 68-year-old solo traveler who was on a tour of Sicily in June 2022, when I fell ...
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U.K. Flights to Be Disrupted for Days After Air Traffic Control Glitch

Flights in and out of Britain will be disrupted for days, the U.K. government said on Tuesday, after a technical ...
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Price of Japan Rail Pass to Increase

Indeed, one common rule of thumb for the seven-day pass is that it essentially pays for itself after a single ...
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How to Plan Your First Camping Trip

For first-time campers, spending the night outside presents a planning wilderness, including figuring out what to bring. The following are ...
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U.S. Fines American Airlines $4.1 Million for Lengthy Tarmac Delays

The Transportation Department fined American Airlines $4.1 million on Monday, saying the carrier violated federal rules by keeping passengers stranded ...
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Book Review: “The Once Upon a Time World, “by Jonathan Miles

A century and a half later, by which time the Riviera had ceased serving as an “outdoor hospital” and become ...
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In Portugal, a Former Royal Home Opens as a Hotel

By Siobhan ReidA decade ago, the Spanish landscape designer Fernando Caruncho began working on a project that would link the ...
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Washington Island, a Speck of Old Iceland in Wisconsin

Five hours after leaving Chicago, we ran out of pavement. At the tip of the Door Peninsula in northeastern Wisconsin, ...
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In the Heart of the Australian Outback, Safeguarding a Sacred Land

Close to the geographical heart of Australia, Alice Springs feels like a true desert town. Red earth laps its edges ...
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5 Baseball Parks That Go Beyond Baseball

Like at every noteworthy speakeasy, it started with a knock.After Chad Thompson and his wife, Kitty, found the secret door ...
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Many Air Travelers With Disabilities Encounter Hurdles to Verify Service Dogs

Joanna Lubkin, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has chronic pain and fatigue and relies on her service dog, a 4-year-old black ...
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American Airlines Pilots Ratify Contract Offering Big Raises

Pilots at American Airlines approved a contract on Monday that will increase pilot compensation by more than 46 percent and ...
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Hurricane Hilary: What Travelers Need to Know

As Hurricane Hilary, a Category 4 storm, headed toward the Baja California Peninsula and the Southwestern United States on Friday, ...
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Can People Claim Spots on the Beach With Empty Chairs?

I live on Cape Cod, and I have recently noticed something of a current trend in which beachgoers claim valuable ...
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Two American Tourists Caught Sleeping in the Eiffel Tower

The opening of the Eiffel Tower was delayed on Monday morning after security officials found two American tourists sleeping in ...
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Tips for Taking Photos With Your Cellphone

For portraits, find the right backdropLook for a clean background — a natural canvas with relatively solid coloring or shape, ...
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Searching in Sweden for Berries, Herbs and Understanding

A pot of birch sap simmered on Eva Gunnare’s stove. It was an early morning in May in Jokkmokk, a ...
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Tourists Adapt to a Brutal Summer in Europe

As our hot, stuffy plane approached Bodrum, the seaside resort city on Turkey’s southwest coast, I closed my eyes and ...
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How to Make the Most of Your Trip to Amsterdam

Amsterdam doesn’t know a low season. There’s the perpetual high season, and then there are two highest seasons: April (tulips!) ...
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From Below Canyon’s Rim, Finding a New Perspective

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Walking ...
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Help! JetBlue Stranded Our Boy Scout Troop in New York City

Dear Tripped Up,I was one of three adults who led a backpacking trip to the Colorado Rockies this past June ...
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The Risks of ‘Skiplagging’

On the last day of June, American Airlines agents at Gainesville Regional Airport in Florida canceled a North Carolina teenager’s ...
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In County Donegal, Ireland, a Tiny Inn Offers a Hyper-Local Travel Experience

The back story of Breac House, a tiny hotel in northwest Ireland’s County Donegal, sounds like a cautionary tale: Two ...
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Mother Flying With Daughter Sues Southwest After Being Accused of Trafficking

Mary MacCarthy and her 10-year-old daughter, Moira, had just deplaned at Denver International Airport when two Denver police officers met ...
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How to Beat the Heat and the Crowds in Athens

First, avoid the long entrance lines by booking your tickets online (20 euros, or about $22, for a single-entry adult ...
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How to Visit Aspen on a Budget

Over an $8.50 pint of craft beer from Aspen Brewing Company, which is comparable to what I pay at home ...
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Summer Travel and Climate Change: Will Vacation Be a Thing of the Past?

You can’t escape the orange. That’s what travelers this summer have been reckoning with — swaths of tangerine, traffic cone ...
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A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks

In March, as she planned for an upcoming trip to France, Amy Kolsky, an experienced international traveler who lives in ...
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What to Know about the E.U.’s New ETIAS Entry Requirement

The days of unrestricted privileges for leisure travel across much of Europe are numbered.Currently, travelers from dozens of countries, including ...
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A Slice of Big Sky Country You Won’t See on ‘Yellowstone’

Recently, western Montana and cities like Bozeman are experiencing a surge in popularity because of the wildly successful drama “Yellowstone” ...
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How to Avoid Crowds in Venice

Take in a Roman Renaissance palaceThe walkways of Venice might be overcrowded, but many of its museums are not. According ...
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How Grand Canyon National Park Works to Prevent Heat-Related Deaths and Injuries

Watching weary day hikers start the long uphill hike from Phantom Ranch, a ranger station at the bottom of the ...
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In Milan, Giving Aperitivo a New Twist

To understand how central the aperitivo is to Milan culture, you need only stand in the middle of the Piazza ...
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Wildfires and Heat Transform Italy and Greece Into Tourism Nightmares

As a family sat vigil over a coffin containing the body of an elderly relative, the wooded hills around their ...
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A High-Water Year for River Rafting

Midmorning on the Dolores River, you could feel how recently the water had been snow. “It’s probably about 48 degrees ...
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U.S. Moves to Improve Airplane Bathrooms for People With Disabilities

The Transportation Department announced on Wednesday that it had finalized new regulations to require more commercial aircraft to have accessible ...
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Travel 101: Our Favorite Hacks, Hints and How-Tos

Flight delays and cancellations are unfortunate inevitabilities, especially in summer, when more people are flying and severe weather tends to ...
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Read Your Way Through Maine

Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books.In American fiction, my state is code ...
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The Wind, the Water, the Islands: Exploring Stockholm’s Archipelago

The moment the motor turned off, I was hooked.It was 20 minutes into my first Swedish sailing trip on a ...
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The Lower East Side Fabric Store That Helped Outfit ‘Bridgerton’

Step behind the unassuming facade of Mendel Goldberg Fabrics on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and you’ll suddenly find yourself surrounded ...
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Tripped Up: What to Do If Your Travel or Tour Company Goes Bankrupt

Dear Tripped Up,In 2021, my husband, my sister and I signed up for a five-day Tremendous Tawas Lake Huron tour ...
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Is it Safe to Travel During Europe’s Heat Wave? Here’s What to Know

Southern Europe is baking, thanks to a relentless heat wave with temperatures breaking records across Italy, Spain and Greece. This ...
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Why Did 488 Golden Retrievers Gather in Scotland?

What is the sound of 488 golden retrievers barking?Imagine the sense of helplessness you might feel when someone’s baby is ...
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L.A. by Subway

There are plenty of free and cheap things to do in Los Angeles. As a traveler, the issue is getting ...
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Ghibli Park Celebrates “Totoro” And Other Miyazaki Movies

One of our first infractions at Ghibli Park was hoisting our 1-year-old onto the polyester tummy of a woodland spirit ...
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Younger Generations of Passengers Consider the Cruise Option

“The general ocean ship cruising with 30 restaurants and 4,000 people, I don’t know how long that is actually going ...
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How to Avoid Crowds in Paris

Summer has arrived in Paris, and the world with it. By day, international hordes pile into the Musée d’Orsay to ...
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Tours for the Swimming-Obsessed

During the pandemic, when Miriam Leitko couldn’t swim because pools were closed, the lifelong swimmer built a lap pool at ...
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A Perfect Weekend in Telluride

Post-adventure, go for the summer version of après-ski at a trio of spots around Mountain Village. On the ground floor ...
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To One Traveler, Smart Tech Is Ruining the Hotel Experience

At my boutique hotel high in the Swiss Alps, I returned from dinner, jet lagged and a tad tipsy, to ...
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Swimming With Whale Sharks at Australia’s Ningaloo Reef

All we wanted after a magnificent snorkeling session off the coast of Western Australia was for the stupid motor home ...
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How to Navigate Dubrovnik Without the Crowds

The Pile and Ploce Gates, the two entrances into Dubrovnik’s Old Town, once had drawbridges that lifted during the overnight ...
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An Art-Filled Swiss Idyll in Lausanne and the Joux Valley

The museum has a collection of more than 10,000 pieces, dating from 1816. Many are by Swiss artists, including the ...
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Travel Confessions: Tell Us About the Time You Crossed the Line

Last month, a video went viral showing a man etching his name (and that of his girlfriend) into the wall ...
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5 National Park Destinations That Aren’t Parks

Many of the 63 national parks across the United States have seen an explosion of visitor numbers both during and ...
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What It’s Like to be a Female Tour Guide in Saudi Arabia

Fatimah Al Zimam likes to walk around in black leggings and casual tops, and she wears her curly hair loose ...
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6 Paris Bistros to Try Now

Paris has recovered its scents, and the city is suddenly ravenous. The whiffs of shallots sautéing in butter, bread baking, ...
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Exploring a Volcanic Island in Portugal’s Azores Archipelago

It was 6 a.m. — 2 a.m. to my raddled East Coast brain — and my husband, daughter and I ...
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David Gilmour, Who Turned a Tiny Island Into a Resort, Dies at 91

David Gilmour, a Canadian-born entrepreneur who in the 1990s built a luxury resort on Wakaya, a tiny island he owned ...
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Large Crack in Carowinds Roller Coaster Prompts Its Shutdown in North Carolina

A roller coaster at an amusement park in Charlotte, N.C., was shut down on Friday after a visitor spotted a ...
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Traveling to France? What You Need to Know About the Protests.

Violent protests have spread across France over the past week since the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in a ...
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Florida Tourism Rolls On Despite Travel Advisories and Political Battles

For months leading up to Jean Franco Rivera’s one-year wedding anniversary, he had the perfect plan to celebrate: Travel to ...
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5 Electric Vehicle-Friendly Road Trips With Ample Charging Stations

“It’s a different mind-set, but it doesn’t bother me that I might have to stop for 20 minutes, or even ...
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Fourth of July Travel: What to Expect This Weekend

A dayslong disruption of flights into and out of the Greater New York area is raising concerns about how prepared ...
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Help! A British Travel Agency Has Our $3,891 and We Want It Back.

Dear Tripped Up,In August 2020, we booked a trip to Iceland for $3,891 via Jetline Vacations, a deal we found ...
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4 LGBTQ-Friendly Towns in Red States That May Be Worth a Visit

A wave of legislation targeting L.G.B.T.Q. people has swept conservative-led statehouses since 2021, when Arkansas passed a law banning hormone ...
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Going to Europe This Summer? You’re Not Alone.

Sicily isn’t the only European destination bustling with tourists ahead of the peak summer season in July and August. After ...
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Titan Submersible Tragedy Sheds Light on Lack of Safeguards for High-Risk Travel

Mountaineers have long climbed atop Mount Everest, and scientists in submersibles have descended into the Antarctic Ocean. In recent decades, ...
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Hamish Harding, Explorer Who Knew No Bounds, Dies at 58 During Titanic Dive

Hamish Harding, an aviation tycoon and ardent explorer, made it his quest to probe the heavens as well as the ...
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88 Temples, 750 Miles, Untold Gifts: Japan’s Shikoku Pilgrimage

Three weeks into my trek, as I ascended a steep path toward Yokomine-ji, the 60th of 88 temples along the ...
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Lefferts Historic House Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too

Before the restoration, the Lefferts house catered mostly to families; children could plant potatoes, harvest flax, play with reproduced artifacts ...
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Walking 36 Miles Through the Wales Countryside

Nine hundred years ago, the Lord Rhys, ruler of the ancient Deheubarth kingdom, established a great seat of religious learning ...
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