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History + Culture

Stranger than Santa: 10 of Europe’s Most Unusual Christmas Characters

If you think a flying sleigh is weird, get a load of these Christmas myths.

November 23, 2015 08:09 PM
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Chris Ciolli
Air Travel News

New Flight Routes, New Airplane Cabins, New Disney Pricing: The View from AFAR

Plus: bag fees begone (there’s a catch) and Coppola joins forces with Backroads

October 16, 2015 12:39 PM
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Matt Villano
St. Lucia

Overview

September 5, 2018 06:03 PM
Other

What It’s Really Like to Be a Cabana Boy

What It’s Really Like to Be a Cabana Boy

August 6, 2015 06:18 PM
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Andrew Richdale
The Bahamas

Overview

August 6, 2018 12:54 PM
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Flash Parker
Chicago

Overview

January 17, 2019 05:27 PM
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Kaitlyn Barrett
Restaurants + Cafés

Is Slovenia the World’s Next Great Food Destination?

Here’s how one of the most prominent chefs on the planet placed Central Europe’s peak flavors on the global map.

May 8, 2015 09:00 AM
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Lisa Abend
Jamaica

Overview

May 23, 2018 03:11 PM
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Lebawit Lily Girma
Health + Wellness

Embracing the Cycle of Life in India’s Holiest City

When a traveler faces grief in Varanasi, his perspective on life and death goes up in smoke.

May 9, 2014 08:19 PM
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David Farley
Beaches

Spin the Globe: A Different Sort of Rio

AFAR chose a destination at random and sent author Paul Greenberg on 24 hours’ notice to a country where he swapped a beach vacation for a chance to catch his dinner.

August 4, 2015 01:27 PM
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Paul Greenberg
Copenhagen

Overview

May 23, 2018 03:07 PM
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Alex Berger
Water Sports

The Remote Beach Town of Your Dreams Exists in Canada

When you pull into the Pacific coast town of Tofino, you leave behind the Canada you thought you knew.

January 30, 2015 05:49 PM
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Eva Holland
Food + Drink

What a Food Writer Learned Feasting Farm-to-Table in Istria

In the Adriatic Sea’s largest peninsula, esteemed journalist Mark Bittman finds out what it really means to “eat local.”

June 19, 2012 05:47 PM
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Mark Bittman
Restaurants + Cafés

Why Aren’t We All Living the Dream on Kauai?

Chefs and cowboys, chickens and mongooses, guitars and King Kong—they’ve all found new lives on Kauai, an island where the only constant is change.

March 18, 2015 09:00 AM
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Chris Colin
In the Magazine

Spin the Globe: Mickey Rapkin is Hungary Like a Wolf in Budapest

AFAR chose a destination at random and sent writer Mickey Rapkin with 24 hours’ notice to a Central European city where tech trumps goulash.

October 2, 2014 03:30 PM
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Mickey Rapkin

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