Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
Apurba Chatterjee, University of Reading In 1825, English artist George Chinnery left Calcutta for Macau, chased away by his disgruntled wife Marianne and his creditors. He’d been based in India...
The city of Cusco in Peru is an enduring showcase of architecture. Its historic center and surrounding areas draw travelers from around the world, captivated by the blend of colonial and Inca...
Travel can broaden the mind, but are we doing too much of it? And, when we do, is it causing harm? This is what the documentary film, The Last Tourist, directed by Tyson Sadler, sets out to ask. But...
There are cities that are best understood when you leave the main avenues behind and look for a place where the pace changes completely. São Paulo is one of them. After exploring one of the largest...
You might think that only a child would get any enjoyment from a trip to an aquarium, but as long as you bring some childlike wonder of your own, they can absolutely be places for adults, too....
Around 25 miles from the city of Leicester, in the English Midlands, is a 1000-acre (approx. 4 square kilometre) nature reserve that did wonders for my soul. Managed by Leicestershire and Rutland...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
Interrailing across Europe has been a long-established rite of passage for British students in ‘the A-level summer’ before university. Although no longer as cheap and carefree of an experience as...
Ushuaia wins over the traveler before they even land, when through the window the last stretch of the Andes appears, dropping toward the Beagle Channel. The southernmost city in the world has a...
