Retiring abroad is a dream for many and often a shrewd decision as costs of living rise.
04.11.2023 - 15:13 / insider.com
In June, Matvey Usanov, a 28-year-old financial analyst from St. Petersburg, set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
In a bid to explore the world, the London resident embarked on a two-month, 6,800-mile journey from London to Turkey and onwards to Kazakhstan. He finished the journey in August in Uzbekistan.
A seasoned adventurer, this wasn't Usanov's first rodeo, he told Insider. He had previously driven from Saint-Tropez to Venice, London to Palermo, and St. Petersburg to Kunashir Island.
Usanov likes to travel by car for spontaneity and freedom, especially in places with limited tourist infrastructure.
"I think that it gives you an extra sense of the road," Usanov said.
Retiring abroad is a dream for many and often a shrewd decision as costs of living rise.
Soon temperatures that can dip as low as -40 (where the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet) will have Winnipeggers shivering. But this city in the heart of Canada stays warm with a surprising number of soothing options to thaw out, whether you’re a resident or just visiting.
Get ready for a fabulous new holiday parade extravaganza as the 97th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade takes to the streets this Thursday.
If you think European holiday destinations have been crowded this year, you’re right.
Uber is taking travelers to new heights with hot air balloon rides in Cappadocia, Turkey.
Tourists have stopped booking new trips to Turkey. The war in Gaza is deterring Turkey’s tourism bookings.
Major airlines in the United States are expecting record numbers of travelers this year over the Thanksgiving holiday period.
In the two years before the war in Ukraine, a private Boeing 737 linked to Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov criss-crossed the globe, taking in the French Riviera, the Maldives and Seychelles along with world capitals and financial centres.
Eighteen months ago, when the New York-based T writer at large Aatish Taseer began planning his reporting trips for this month’s three-part feature story — an exploration of religious travel in Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq — he was already well acquainted with the idea of pilgrimage. His first book, the 2009 memoir “Stranger to History,” opens with what is arguably the world’s best-known faith-motivated journey, the hajj to Mecca, and ends with what he describes as a personal pilgrimage to meet his estranged father in Pakistan. In Delhi, India, where Taseer grew up, quick trips for the purpose of worship were commonplace. “People would do a pilgrimage on an ordinary Sunday,” he says, “instead of going to an amusement park.”
About two-thirds of European destinations remain below their pre-pandemic number of international tourist arrivals, according to the European Travel Commission’s quarterly report released Tuesday. The report covered the first nine months of 2023.
The value of inbound visitors to Europe has returned to pre-pandemic levels with domestic tourism in the region also back in positive territory, reveals new research from WTM.
Once the preserve of expats, the notion of Thanksgiving is increasingly embraced in the U.K. as both a gentle practice of seeing family or friends but also as a form of autumnal appreciation; an adult-orientated extension of harvest festivals that most schools still hold in Britain. While adhering to the understandable and delicious importance of turkey and cranberry sauce, top chefs also use Thanksgiving to bring British ingredients to the table. Here are some of the best places to celebrate Anglo-American relations this year