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Getting around the UK capital, Pt. 1: Public transport hacks from real Londoners

(Editor’s note: This is Pt. 1 of a two-part post with tips from actual Londoners on navigating the city’s complex transportation system....
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Lisbon’s month-long street party (is back): Sarah Nagaty’s guide to the Festival of Santo Antonio (updated)

The Festival of Santo Antonio (also known as Festas dos Santos Populares or Popular Saints’ Festival),which takes place every year in Lisbon...
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Galyna Rogovska: My ultimate guide to 32 of Phuket’s most popular beaches

Phuket is surrounded by endless beaches, covered by lush greenery and combines comfort with enormous opportunities to diversify each day with various...

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Our return after decades showed us an Izmir bigger, better and more modern than everTayyip Erdogan is an observant Muslim who has tried to pry Turkey away from the aggressive secularism of Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. In Izmir, Erdogan has not succeeding in changing anything. Oh, wait … he kinda has: it’s even more liberal than the city we arrived in back in 1999.

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