By World Travel Magazine | Christine Lee | 6/25/2025 8:36 AM
A recent visit to Tokyo reminded me that amid its kinetic energy, the city offers surprising spaces of tranquillity. Hidden behind glass doors and garden gates are cafés that feel more like greenhouses than eateries—where foliage cascades from the ceiling, sunlight dapples wooden tables, and your coffee break turns into a botanical retreat. Whether tucked […]
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By The Travel Magazine | Rupert Parker | 6/24/2025 5:09 PM
The department of Aisne, in Northern France, offers imposing medieval cathedrals, art deco cities, a workers utopia and fine champagne.
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By The Travel Magazine | Nick Dalton | 6/24/2025 6:57 AM
Fed up with package holidays offering nothing better than pub crawls, Kirk Field went…
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Gastronomic capital of France, Lyon offers a city break destination packed with both cultural and culinary surprises.
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By World Travel Magazine | Christine Lee | 6/22/2025 7:41 AM
In Japan, the profound often hides in plain sight—or just above it. While travellers flock to Kyoto’s golden pavilions or Tokyo’s design-forward cafés, a quieter, more contemplative experience revealed itself to me on a recent trip—one I had never thought to seek before. Across the country’s ancient shrines and temples, painted ceilings offer a transcendent […]
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Whether you want wildlife, history or a recharge, Lyn Hughes highlights six of the very best places to stay in KwaZulu-Natal
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While the battlefields of South Africa’s KwaZula-Natal province shine a light on its difficult past, a war on poaching is currently being won in its private reserves
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Celebrate World Rainforest Day by exploring the world's most amazing rainforests, teeming with life and hosting more than 50% of the world's animals and plants...
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With volcanic origins and royal relations, there's more to stone circles than meets the eye. Explore these iconic and lesser-known stone structures that are set in beautiful British landscapes...
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By The Travel Magazine | L T Thomas | 6/18/2025 4:35 PM
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong Hotel has been a haven of tranquillity in the heart of the action for more than 60 years.
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The five-star Courthouse Hotel in Shoreditch is home to the very jail cell where the notorious East End gangsters, the Krays were banged up.
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The city comes to life during the Holy Month, with Ramadan tents, special cultural events and more
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The first thick drops of summer rain hit as Brooklyn crossover icons Turnstile tear…
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America is home to numerous national parks. For many luxury travellers, going off the…
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The princely follies, Hobbiton-style wine cellars and subterranean labyrinths of South Moravia offer the key to a region whose appeal lies both above and below the surface, discovers Debbie Ward
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Re-enactors gather outside St Albans Cathedral every 21 June
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There’s no better way to experience the Garden City than by staying at its most iconic hotel and delving into its culture, history and nature
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After surviving colonisation, deforestation and enforced labour, Costa Rica’s Indigenous peoples are reviving traditions and ecosystems lost to the centuries – and visitors are welcome to join in
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Bringing you entertainment, humour and a wealth of knowledge for your next journey, take a listen to these inspirational travel audio chats from the world's top podcast presenters...
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We’ve teamed up with the experts at Audley Travel and award-winning Singapore Airlines to bring you all the inspiration and information you need to start planning a romantic road trip around Victoria, Australia.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 2, 2025 is:
palimpsest \PAL-imp-sest\ noun
Palimpsest in its original use refers to writing material (such as a parchment manuscript) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased; the underlying text is said to be “in palimpsest.” Palimpsest in extended use refers to something that has usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface.
// Scholars believe the motive for making palimpsests was often economic—reusing parchment was cheaper than preparing a new skin.
// The ancient city is an architectural palimpsest.
“My aim was to trace the course of … the Aqua Marcia, built between 144 and 140 B.C. by Julius Caesar’s ancestor Quintus Marcius Rex. … The original tuff arches carried the Marcia across a steep ravine. Subsequent retaining walls and buttresses have transformed the bridge into a palimpsest of building styles.” — David Laskin, The New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
Did you know?
Long ago, writing surfaces were so highly valued that they were often used more than once. Palimpsest in its original use referred to an early form of recycling in which an old document was erased to make room for a new one when parchment ran short. (The word is from the Greek palimpsēstos, meaning “scraped again.”) Fortunately for modern scholars, the erasing process wasn’t completely effective, so the original could often be distinguished under the newer writing. De republica, by Roman statesman and orator Cicero, is one of many documents recovered from a palimpsest. Nowadays, the word palimpsest can refer not only to such a document but to anything that has multiple layers apparent beneath the surface.