Quick Hit Travel Stories

With no water and no clear path, the White Sands National Monument is a transformative place: lakes evaporated into gypsum fields, lizards evolved to whiteness and one hiker emerged as someone new.

This ancient Greek island, with no airport but enough goats to outnumber humans 33 to one, takes hours to reach by ferry—and is worth every minute. 

From drinking at a Finnish hockey game to drinking at a Latvian opera, Dave and Jo learn when rain and booze don’t mix—and end up in a Lithuanian hospital.

In Murmansk, Russia, Dave and Jo touch the Arctic Ocean, eat deer burgers in a bistro, and watch the final of KGV, a sketch-comedy show, in a microbrewery. 

Just when you think you’ve seen it all after a tour of Central Europe, Dario and Angeliki discover a gem of a city just by looking for the cheap way home.

Colombia is a country of vast natural gifts, and the Chicamocha Canyon is one of its most spectacular. Go for the trekking, or in this case, for the awesome whitewater rafting!

Colombia’s two biggest cities, Bogotá and Medellín, have a sibling rivalry of titanic proportions, and both are worth checking out.

Colombia is fast becoming a nation of cyclists, and Bogotá is the best place to see the locals’ wheels in action.

Story by Dave Hazzan, Photos by Jo Turner Welcome to Astana, where two climates exist at the same time. Outside, there is a foot and a half of snow and blinding winds. The…

Our Editor-at-Large in Europe never met his grandfather, Air Gunner Sergeant Alton O’Neil. Yet as he stands over his grave in the fields of Worcestershire, he wonders if he could’ve ever had his kind of courage.