On most long-haul business class flights, wine, beer, spirits, and soft drinks are included in the fare. The selection, however, varies by airline, route, and flight. On Qatar Airways, the welcome drink worth trying might be lime and mint. On Finnair, you might save your first order for the airline’s own take on a Cosmopolitan. […]
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December is supposed to be about slowing down. Apparently, the events industry didn’t get the memo. Barcelona and Manchester City are meeting in the Champions League, with Arsenal and Real Madrid taking the field in London just 24 hours later. Tokyo is preparing for a weekend that brings together Hollywood celebrities, comic-book fans, and some […]
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November seems unable to settle on a personality, and that is precisely what makes it interesting. Melbourne dresses up for one of the world’s most famous horse races. Reykjavík turns its compact downtown into a three-night musical treasure hunt. Then November heads into its final stretch wonderfully lavishly with rally cars crossing the deserts of […]
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If you need an excuse to fly somewhere in October, the calendar is being unusually generous. Formula 1 lights up Singapore. Four of Europe’s biggest football clubs welcome four more for two nights of Champions League drama. Cascais asks whether you fancy swimming, cycling and running for most of a day, while Abu Simbel offers […]
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September has a reputation for being the month when everyone quietly returns to serious life. Summer holidays end. Out-of-office replies disappear. Calendars fill up again. The global events calendar, however, has other plans. It begins with marketers gathering in London and Formula 1 returning to Monza, where “quietly getting back to work” is not really […]
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August offers no gentle introduction to worldwide events worth flying business class for, hitting the ground running from the very start. It starts with the world’s best female cyclists racing from Switzerland into France. Then, within the space of one very busy week, Birmingham fills with athletics fans, Budapest turns an island into a five-day […]
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July is not a quiet month on the travel calendar. It is loud revving engines at Silverstone. Haute couture in Paris. Summer festival nights in Tokyo. Cyclists rolling out from Barcelona. Golf at Royal Birkdale. A creator crowd gathering in London. Race weekends stretching from the United Kingdom to Belgium and Hungary. In other words, […]
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Every summer the same question comes up for a lot of travelers in the United States. If you finally have time for a real trip, where should you actually go? There are plenty of good answers, but the best summer destinations usually share a few things. Beautiful weather, great food, somewhere interesting to explore, and […]
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London rarely wins people over immediately. The first impression is usually noise, traffic, crowds, and a feeling that everything is happening at once. Busy London can feel overwhelming, with streets packed even when nothing specific is going on. People walk fast. Buses are everywhere. It can feel like you arrived in the middle of something […]
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Rome is not a city you ease into. It is busy from the first minute, sometimes chaotic, and constantly pulling your attention in ten directions at once. You walk more than planned. You stop more than expected. You look up, a lot. And somehow the days still disappear fast. It stands as the country’s political, […]
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