Discover the world, three days at a time

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the most liveable city in Europe — a compact (population 930,000) capital of canals, ga

🇫🇷 France

Paris

Paris doesn't need an introduction — it invented the idea of the perfect city break. But knowing whe

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

London

London (population 9.7 million Greater London; 14+ million metropolitan area) is the capital of the

🇮🇹 Italy

Rome

Rome (Roma — "the Eternal City") is the most historically layered city on earth: a 2,800-year urban

🇪🇸 Spain

Barcelona

Barcelona (Catalunya's capital, not Spain's — a distinction the 1.6 million Barcelonans and 7 millio

New York

New York City (NYC — the most iconic city in the Western world: 8.3 million residents in the five bo

Asia

🇯🇵 Japan

Tokyo

Tokyo (東京 — "Eastern Capital" — renamed from Edo in 1868 when Emperor Meiji moved the imperial court

Middle East

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Dubai

Dubai is the most audacious urban experiment of the 21st century: a desert city-state of 3.5 million

Asia

🇹🇭 Thailand

Bangkok

Bangkok (Krung Thep Maha Nakhon — "City of Angels, Great City" in Thai, the capital's official name

🇵🇹 Portugal

Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is Europe's westernmost capital and its most romantic — a city of seven hills above

🇩🇪 Germany

Berlin

Berlin is Europe's most consistently reinventing city. Destroyed in 1945, divided by a wall in 1961,

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

Prague

Prague (Praha — the "Mother of Cities" according to Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who transformed i

Oceania

🇦🇺 Australia

Sydney

Sydney is one of the most naturally beautiful cities in the world — the harbour, the Heads, the beac

Asia

🇸🇬 Singapore

Singapore

Singapore (the Lion City — Singapura, from Sanskrit: Singa (lion) + Pura (city), though no lions eve

🇹🇷 Turkey

Istanbul

Istanbul is the only city in the world that straddles two continents — the Bosphorus Strait separati

Africa

🇲🇦 Morocco

Marrakech

Marrakech (the "Red City" — al-Hamra — named for the terracotta sandstone of its walls and buildings

🇦🇹 Austria

Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the great imperial city of central Europe — the capital of the Habsburg Empire for

🇮🇹 Italy

Florence

Florence (Firenze in Italian — population 362,000 in the city, 1 million in the metropolitan area —

Miami

Miami is the only major American city founded by a woman, built on subtropical mangroves and driven

Los Angeles

Los Angeles (the City of Angels — from the Spanish El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Ángeles (The Town of