Canada · British Columbia · Weekend Guide Vancouver will make you question every other city you have ever lived in or visited. It does this quietly, without any particular effort, simply by existing. You step outside your hotel on the first morning and there are mountains. Not far-away, hazy, theoretical mountains. Immediate, snow-capped, absurdly photogenic…
USA · Colorado · Weekend Guide Denver will get you before you even unpack. You land, you grab your bag, you walk through the airport feeling great about life, and then you try to climb one flight of stairs and your legs feel like they belong to someone much older and less optimistic than you….
USA · Arizona · Weekend Guide Phoenix doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Most people fly through it on the way to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, or Scottsdale. They spend one night, eat a mediocre meal near the airport, and leave with no particular impression of the place. That’s a mistake. Phoenix — the fifth…
USA · Pacific Northwest · Hiking Guide Seattle is one of the best-positioned cities in the world for hiking. Within two hours in any direction, you have volcanic peaks, old-growth rainforests, alpine meadows, glacier-carved valleys, and coastline that belongs on a different continent. The Cascades rise to the east. The Olympics guard the west. Mount…
USA · Chicago · Food Guide Chicago is not a brunch city the way New York or Los Angeles is. It’s better than that. Other cities have turned Sunday morning into a performance. Think queue management, social media moments, and $22 eggs. Chicago, however, has largely kept brunch honest. The city’s food identity is built…
USA · Seattle · Food Guide Seattle has a brunch problem — in the best possible way. The city that gave the world Starbucks takes its coffee more seriously than almost anywhere else on earth, and where exceptional coffee goes, exceptional brunch tends to follow. But Seattle’s brunch scene isn’t built on trends or aesthetics….
USA · 7 days · Food, Culture & Neighbourhoods New York doesn’t ease you in. You land at JFK or Newark, take a train or a cab through a landscape that looks like every film you’ve ever seen, and then suddenly you’re in it — the noise, the scale, the smell of a city that…
Mexico · 7 days · Mexico City, Teotihuacán & Beyond Mexico City is too big to understand and too good to stop trying. Twenty-two million people. Hundreds of neighborhoods. One of the greatest food cities on earth. Pre-Columbian ruins inside the city limits. Lucha libre on Friday nights. Frida Kahlo’s blue house. Some of the…
Colombia · 5 days · Food, Culture & Nightlife Medellín gets into your bloodstream fast. It might be the weather — a city sitting at 1,500 metres in the Andes, blessed with what locals call la ciudad de la eterna primavera: the city of eternal spring. It’s 24°C and sunny almost every day of the…
Planning a trip to Brazil? Whether you’re exploring the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, hiking around Chapada Diamantina, working remotely from Florianópolis, or venturing deep into the Amazon, having reliable mobile data can make your trip much easier. Gone are the days of searching for a local SIM card at the airport or dealing with…