Fodor's: 12 Ways to Learn a Foreign Language While Traveling
Ditch the classroom for a real-world adventure and learn a language along the way.
Vermont travel writer Jen Rose Smith covers human-powered adventure, exploration, food, and spirits from her home in the Green Mountains. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, CNN Travel, AFAR, Rolling Stone,USA Today, and Outside Online.
In addition to her work as a freelancer, Jen is the author of five travel guidebooks to Vermont and New England, including Moon New England Road Trips, which was selected for the 2018 New England Society Book Awards.
Air Chicago Magazine: Discover Cairo's New, Old Kingdom
When the billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum opens in Giza
in 2020, Egypt’s oldest treasures will gleam within a brand new
frame.
Condé Nast Traveler: Hotels Where You Can Chase the Midnight Sun
For the ultimate midnight sun experience, travel beyond the Arctic Circle—at 66˚ of latitude, that invisible line marks the place where the sun stays above the horizon for 24 hours on the solstice.
CNN Travel: Amazing destinations with almost no tourists
In 2017, nearly 87 million international tourists arrived in France. That same year, a mere 2,000 international tourists visited the South Pacific country of Tuvalu, where it's easy to find a beach — or even an entire island — to yourself.
HuffPost: Weirdest historical diets
According to historian of medicine Louise Foxcroft, fad diets have been around since the 16th century, when a tell-all weight loss book by Venetian merchant Luigi Cornaro became a surprise bestseller with tips on extreme calorie restriction.
AFAR: 11 Lost Cities You Can Actually Visit
Whether you’re among the dusty palaces at Xanadu or walking along ancient Troy’s battlements, you can channel your inner explorer while visiting these ruins, whose cultural breadth and evocativeness show how enduring lost cities can be.
Nexos: Colombia is for Cyclists
An adventurous bikepacking trip through the Andes reveals a culture where cycling is sacred.
CNN: Visiting a country that doesn't exist
A buffer zone splits this easternmost Mediterranean island in two, a 180-kilometer scar maintained by United Nations peacekeepers in one of the longest-running missions in history.
Backpacker: Hard Hikes
Whether it’s big elevation changes, big miles, or big moves, these 23 routes prove that the best hikes are often the hardest. There’s a world of adventure out there—if you’re strong enough to seize it.
Atlas Obscura: The Istanbul Food Detectives Recreating Ottoman Cuisine
Here’s a basic shopping list if you’re chef to the Ottoman sultan: The dried glands of a musk deer, a bushel of violets, ambergris from whale bellies, and handfuls of desert-harvested frankincense.
Adventure.com: The Human Carpentry of Catalonia's Castellers
Equal parts flesh and architecture, the castellers’ craft is a kind of human carpentry, using their own muscle, sinew and bone as tools.
Backpacker Magazine: Holy Hikes
Make a modern-day pilgrimage to one of these sacred sites.
AFAR: Why Your Next Trip to Europe Should Be on the Canals
Compared to urban vacations, which can rush through countries at the pace of an Instagram scroll, a European canal cruise is the definition of slow travel. The historic barges keep to a leisurely pace of four miles an hour, following man-made canals dug for transporting everything from wine casks to royal entourages.
Fodor's: The Salar de Uyuni is South America’s Most Surreal Landscape
With an ancient island of giant cacti, boiling mud pools, and hotels made entirely from salt, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni looks like something from a fever dream.
CNN Travel: 50 of the world's best desserts
Imagine the best dessert on Earth. Better yet, turn to a stranger on the street and ask them. Odds are good -- dollars to doughnuts -- their answer is different from yours.
Playboy: Welcome to the Catalan Republic
A layer of white smoke waves over the crowd, along with hand-painted banners, Catalan flags, and a shower of sparks from a sputtering flare. “Ni oblit,” the people shouted, hoisting clenched fists and small children above their heads, “Ni perdò.” Neither forgotten, nor forgiven.
CNN Travel: Is this the world's best whiskey?
In recent years, Vermont has seen a quiet craft distilling revival, and the state's bars are lined with locally made bottles. But they're not always what they seem.
Strawberry Tart with Verbena Cream, Plus Perfect Wine Pairings
As the canal barge Savannah winds through the tree-lined Canal du Midi, the boat’s French chef climbs from her compact galley kitchen to tiny garden she tends in the stern of the boat. Thyme, basil, and parsley thrive in the intense sun of southern France, but for a signature strawberry tart Lafitte plucks a handful of lemon verbena.
Air Chicago Magazine: New Zealand
For a diminutive island country at the southern edge of the world, New Zealand offers a near-mythic amount of adventure and culture.
CNN: These beloved sweets preserve sugar's history
While the story of sugar could fill a library of history and travel books, there are bits of the tale in kitchens around the world. Sugar has followed in the wake of the world's armies, from the Arab conquest to European colonialism, and it's left a trail of recipes behind it.
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