If there were a World Cup for punching above your weight, Uruguay would win it every four years. As the 2026 tournament across the USA, Canada and Mexico plays out its final week, two of the most football-obsessed nations on earth have spent the summer glued to screens like everyone else: Uruguay, which hosted and […]
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It is World Cup summer, and both England and Portugal have spent the past few weeks doing what they do best: living and dying by the fortunes of eleven men on a screen. With the 2026 tournament unfolding across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, two of Europe’s most football-obsessed nations have been in the global
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It is a strange and wonderful summer to be writing this. Canada and Mexico are co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside the United States, and for a month the world’s cameras have bounced between Vancouver’s harbour, Toronto’s skyline and the roar of a packed Estadio Azteca — two genuinely football-mad nations enjoying a rare
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If you have spent this summer anywhere near a television, you already know the 2026 World Cup across the USA, Canada, and Mexico turned the whole planet into one loud, arguing living room, and few sets of fans argue more beautifully than Argentines and Spaniards. Both countries treat football as something closer to religion than
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Halloween 2026 lands on a Saturday, which changes everything. October 31 on a weekend means the big Halloween towns will hit their highest crowds in years, hotel prices will surge for the full Oct 29–Nov 1 window, and the places that are merely “spooky adjacent” will feel like festivals. We’ve been to most of the
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Labor Day 2026 lands on Monday, September 7, which makes September 5–7 the last three-day shot at summer. Right now, about seven weeks out, is exactly when the good places are still bookable without last-resort pricing. The pattern worth exploiting: early September brings the warmest water of the year on almost every American coast and
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Twelve destinations worth booking for the Thanksgiving weekend of November 26, 2026, chosen around the variable that decides the budget: airfare. Includes where the trip costs less than hosting at home.
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We have hauled kids to beaches on three continents, and here is the honest lesson: the best family beach vacation is rarely the prettiest beach. It is the one with calm water, a bathroom within sprinting distance, food nobody fights about, and a price that does not ruin the photos. A drop-dead gorgeous beach with
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Sixteen guys trip destinations that survive group-chat planning: seven in the US and nine further afield, each with a realistic three-day budget per person and the months actually worth booking. Built for mixed groups where golf, nightlife and very different budgets all have to coexist.
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Here’s the thing nobody tells you about living in (or repeatedly visiting) Las Vegas: it might be the single best national-park base camp in America. Zion is under three hours away, Death Valley two, the Grand Canyon a long-but-doable four-plus, and Valley of Fire — which would be a headline park in most states —
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