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I have done both of these trips more than once, and I can tell you the argument that plays out in every group chat: Lake Tahoe vs Aspen is not really a ski comparison, it is a lifestyle comparison. Tahoe is a massive alpine lake at 6,200 feet ringed by more than a dozen ski […]

It is July 2026, and if your group chat looks anything like mine, it has been wall-to-wall World Cup all summer as the tournament sweeps across the USA, Canada and Mexico. Germany and Spain are two of the most football-obsessed nations on earth, and watching their fans pack out plazas and beer gardens for every

By the time you read this, the 2026 World Cup across the United States, Canada and Mexico will be wrapping up a summer of wall-to-wall football, and few countries have been more locked into it than England and Spain, two places where the sport sits somewhere between hobby and religion. But take a breath: this

It is a World Cup summer, and you can feel it in both of these countries: England and Italy are two of the most football-obsessed nations on earth, and with the 2026 tournament unfolding across the USA, Canada and Mexico, every pub in Manchester and every piazza in Naples has a screen glowing late into

It’s World Cup summer, and with the 2026 tournament sprawled across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, two of the countries watching most obsessively from afar are England and Germany, nations where football sits somewhere between pastime and religion. But this isn’t a football article. It’s a travel one, because sooner or later everyone planning a

It has been quite a summer to be a football-obsessed nation. With the 2026 World Cup unfolding across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, both England and France have spent the past few weeks glued to screens, arguing in pubs and cafes, and reminding everyone that nobody takes this sport more personally than they do. But

It is July 2026, and the world has spent a month glued to the World Cup across the USA, Canada and Mexico, which means football’s two great obsessions, Brazil and Spain, have been on everyone’s lips all summer. That is where the football talk ends, though, because this is a travel comparison, and as places