BBC travel : Australia’s epic 1,077km road trip
16th March 2023 – Craig Sauers Of Australia’s great road trips, the Tanami Track might be the most intimidating. But the rugged nature that defines this epic desert journey could soon change. In every direction, fire-red sand fanned out across the land. Everything that wasn’t red seemed covered in it: the boab trees, the spinifex,
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BBC travel : A Caribbean take on body positivity
By Sarah Harvey – 2nd February 2022 An important part of Curacao’s dushi (sweet) culture, Mama and Chichi sculptures can be found across the island and have come to represent the beauty of the female form. It’s impossible to travel around the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao without falling in love with the affectionate-looking, plus-sized
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BBC travel : A Caribbean secret to happiness
By Sarah Harvey – 14th February 2023 The word “dushi” is part of the national identity in Curacao – and there is much we all can learn from this Caribbean island’s sweet philosophy. A As I crunched my way through a bowl of funchi fries with hot pepper sauce at a cafe on the Dutch
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BBC Travel : Why we should record travel moments
By Jennifer Stavros – 10th February 2023 Travellers often talk about seeing the world, but it’s time we learn to listen to it, too. On a rainy summer day, I took a train to the Swiss city of Saint-Maurice and trekked through the squelching mud to a medieval fortress perched high atop a cliff. After
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BBC Travel : Greenland’s natural ‘medicine for the soul’
By Laura Hall – 28th February 2023 It’s not easy living in Greenland, where isolation combined with an inhospitable environment can be a cause of stress. But locals have found a way to deal with it: tuning into nature. N Nothing puts you more in awe of nature than sleeping on a 3km-thick slab of
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BBC travel : Ghadames : Is this the perfect desert town?
By Fiona Dunlop – 27th October 2022 Known as “the pearl of the desert”, Ghadames is so perfectly conceived for the extreme temperatures of the Sahara that its former inhabitants keep coming back. …The name of Ghadames has been known for at least 2,000 years, although its present compact structure was developed by Muslim Arabs
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BBC travel : The highest rail route in northern Europe
By Anthony Ham – 31st January 2023 Connecting Norway’s stylish capital with its most picturesque city, the 496km, 39-station Oslo-Bergen railway is one of the world’s most beautiful train journeys. …At first, there was nothing to suggest the drama that lay up ahead. As the train sped away from the city centre, there were fleeting
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BBC travel : Nalanda : The university that changed the world
By Sugato Mukherjee – 23rd February 2023 More than 500 years before Oxford University was founded, India’s Nalanda University was home to nine million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world. …Founded in 427 CE, Nalanda is considered the world’s first residential university, a sort of medieval Ivy League institution home to nine
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BBC travel : The five countries expat families love
We answer every emigrating family’s top question: where are the best places to raise children – or, for that matter, to be a child? By Amanda Ruggeri.  8th February 2023 For people looking to relocate, rankings of the world’s most liveable countries can be helpful. But with kids in tow, there are more factors to
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