Departures: Year-round Experience: Royal Caribbean International’s 28-strong fleet of colossal ships (with more debuting in 2025) sail everywhere from Alaska to Auckland. Royal Caribbean also holds bragging rights to several of the world’s largest ships, including the 1,198-foot-long, liquefied natural […]
Can Culleteres is Barcelona’s oldest restaurant, opened in 1786. Its interior reflects this age via faded murals, bright Portuguese-style tiles, and signed portraits of famous guests. Yet ask a native of Barcelona about the restaurant, and it’s likely he or
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The annual Google Year in Search was just released, chronicling the major sports, news, and pop culture trends of 2024. With over 8.5 billion searches per day, Google is privy to heaps of data on what people are looking for
One of the most iconic artifacts of ancient Japan is the Shakōki-dogū (“goggle-eyed clay idol”), which was found at the Kamegaoka archaeological site in Aomori Prefecture in 1887 and is held at the Tokyo National Museum today. The image often
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Soon, travelers everywhere will start planning their 2025 holidays. How about… Greenland? The Faroe Islands? Or maybe Tromsø, Norway, where the summer sun barely dips below the horizon – and hygge-filled winter nights last practically all day. In a world
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Don’t litter; don’t vandalize public property; don’t chew gum. Singapore, which Condé Nast Traveler readers named one of the best cities in the world in 2024, has laws so famously stringent that T-shirts gently poking fun at them make popular
Whenever Pizza Hut Taiwan releases a new flavor, the internet braces itself. In my decade covering the island’s food scene, I’ve noticed few dishes spark as much excitement—and outrage—as their pies. One commenter on Reddit called their 2022 scalloped pizza
