How to read a ferry timetable before you book a slow route
Seasonal columns, foot-passenger rules and reservation windows decide whether an island hopping plan holds together. A guide to the small print that matters.
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Cover story entertainment — Why we return: the cover story of every trip is home
The journey out gets the guidebooks, the films, the itineraries. The journey back gets a delayed gate and a quiet apartment — and it may be the more honest story.
Rail Reopenings: What a Rail Reopening Actually Changes for the Traveler Who Plans Around It
A reopened railway looks like a simple win for travelers, but the changes run deeper. Here is what a new or restored rail link really alters for anyone planning a slow journey.
Cover story celia laskey — The novel as cover story: fiction about being somewhere else
A book can carry a reader further than a boarding pass, and it asks nothing at the border.
Venice charged day-trippers five euros. The city just learned what that buys.
Venice's €5 day-visitor fee ran on 29 peak days in spring 2024 — the first city in the world to charge entry — and the pilot's real result was data about who the crowds actually are.
What Europe's new border system counted in its first quarter
The Entry/Exit System went fully live on April 10, replacing the ink stamp with fingerprints and a facial scan, and its first data release shows who was turned away, and why.