# Rich Travel Magazine

> The Art of Getting Away

Rich Travel Magazine, for travellers who want more than a destination guide. Adventure, culture, and the art of getting away.

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## Sections
- [Destinations](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/destinations): City and country guides, itineraries and the places worth the journey
- [Luxury Travel](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/luxury-travel): Hotels, cruises, private tours and five-star experiences
- [Mindful Travel](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/mindful-travel): Wellness escapes, forest bathing and travel with purpose
- [Solo Travel](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/solo-travel): Travelling alone, safely and on your own terms
- [Food & Culture](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/food-culture): Culinary journeys, festivals and timeless traditions
- [Smart Travel](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/smart-travel): Packing, flights, money and the practical craft of travel
- [Sacred Routes](https://richtravelmagazine.com/category/sacred-routes): Pilgrimages, sacred places and journeys of the spirit

## Latest articles
- [Eight Luxury Escapes to Take Before Christmas, From Vienna's Advent Markets to the Arctic Icehotel](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/luxury-destinations-before-christmas-2026): Between November and mid-December, eight of Europe's great destinations open their winter season. Here is when each one begins and where to stay.
- [Three meteor showers peak in November before the first of three back-to-back supermoons](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/november-2026-meteor-showers-supermoon): Slow Taurid fireballs, the fastest meteors of the year and a supermoon rising beside the Pleiades make November 2026 the richest month of the autumn sky.
- [Erosion Prevention: How California Is Saving the Pacific Coast Highway Before El Niño Arrives](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/erosion-prevention-pacific-coast-highway): A crack beneath Highway 1 at Crystal Cove has prompted fast, preventive action. Here are the six methods coastal leaders use to keep the sea from taking their roads.
- [Cold Water Swimming Lifts Your Mood but Cold Shock Can Kill: 8 Rules for Swimming Safely in British Winter Water](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/cold-water-swimming-safety): Thousands of Britons now swim outdoors all winter for the rush and the company. The first minute in cold water is the most dangerous, and these rules keep you safe.
- [A Daily Winter Walk Lowers Stress and Blood Sugar: 8 Ways to Keep Going Until Spring](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/winter-walking-benefits): Walking is the simplest health habit you have, and winter is when it slips. Here is how to make it last through the cold, wet and dark months.
- [London Calling: The Week Starting 2nd November 2026](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/london-calling-the-week-starting-2nd-november-2026): Pitchfork takes over London's best venues, fireworks fill the weekend sky and Sunday brings Remembrance, Diwali and the last day of two exhibitions.
- [The Lord Mayor's Show Returns to the Thames on 14th November as Bronek Masojada Becomes the City's 698th Lord Mayor](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/lord-mayors-show-2026): A river pageant under Tower Bridge, a golden coach, 6,500 marchers and 100 years on the BBC: your free morning out in the City of London.
- [EFG London Jazz Festival Opens on 13th November With Ten Days Marking 100 Years of Miles Davis and John Coltrane](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/efg-london-jazz-festival-2026): Samara Joy, Goldie, Melody Gardot and two great centenaries: what to book at the EFG London Jazz Festival, from the Royal Albert Hall to the Vortex.
- [Punjabi Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Fought for the Vote and Nursed Indian Soldiers: See Her Story at Kensington Palace Before 8th November](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/last-princesses-of-punjab-sophia-duleep-singh): Queen Victoria's goddaughter sold The Suffragette outside her own royal home, marched on Black Friday and nursed wounded Indian soldiers. Her exhibition closes on Sunday.
- [The V&A's Schiaparelli Exhibition Closes on Sunday 8th November, Your Last Chance to See the UK's First Show on the Designer](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/schiaparelli-va-closing): Shocking pink, surrealist collaborations with Dalí and Cocteau and a revived couture house: what to see at Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art before it closes.
- [Diwali Falls on Sunday 8th November, and After Storms Cancelled Trafalgar Square, London Celebrates at Home](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/diwali-london-2026): Why the Trafalgar Square celebration was called off, what Diwali means to Hindu, Sikh and Jain families, and where London glows on Sunday night.
- [London Remembers at the Royal Albert Hall on 7th November, the Cenotaph on 8th November and in Silence on Armistice Day](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/remembrance-sunday-london-2026): Your guide to Remembrance in London: the Festival of Remembrance, the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph and the two-minute silence on 11th November.
- [Bonfire Night Falls on Thursday 5th November, and London's Biggest Firework Displays Run Through the Weekend](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/bonfire-night-london-fireworks-2026): Where to see fireworks in London this year, from Wimbledon Park on the night itself to Alexandra Palace, Battersea Park and Blackheath on the weekend.
- [Pitchfork Takes Over London From 2nd to 8th November, With The Avalanches Headlining the Roundhouse](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/pitchfork-music-festival-london-2026): Seven nights, more than ten venues and no main stage: how to get the best out of Pitchfork Music Festival London, from The Avalanches to the Dalston Takeover.
- [A Year After Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica Is Open](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-jamaica-after-hurricane-melissa): Negril, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio and Kingston are largely open again, while hoteliers say slow insurance payouts are holding back the rest.
- [Birdwatching Sharpens Attention and Mood at Any Age, So Start Your Children Before They Turn 11](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/birdwatching-children-europe-autumn): Brain scans show expert birders keep denser attention networks into old age. Here is what watching birds does for a child, and six places in Europe to begin this autumn.
- [Seven Treks That Carry You Across the World's Most Beautiful Borders on Foot](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/best-border-treks-world): From a cairn in an Arctic lake to a wartime escape route over the Pyrenees, these are the walks where a line on the map becomes a mountain pass you can cross.
- [Discover Five of Europe's Most Haunted Destinations, From Pendle Hill to Dracula's Castle](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/europes-most-haunted-destinations): A Lancashire witch hunt, a queen's castle sold to the world as Dracula's home, a street buried beneath Edinburgh, the bones of six million Parisians and Ireland's Bloody Chapel. Here is what happened at each one, and how to visit this Halloween.
- [Halloween Falls on a Saturday This Year for the Last Time Until 2037](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/halloween-2026-saturday-samhain-origins): A festival born more than 2,000 years ago at the edge of winter gets its longest night in years, under a waning moon, with chocolate still priced as if cocoa had never fallen.
- [Discover the Culture That Inspired Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson and W. S. Merwin](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/week-in-hawaii-culture-mark-twain-stevenson-merwin): From a queen's palace in Honolulu to the glowing crater of Kīlauea, a seven-day route across three islands follows Hawaiian heritage and the writers who found their voice there.
- [London's 10 Most Beautiful Statues, and the British Story Each One Tells](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/london-most-beautiful-statues): From a king who survived his own execution in bronze to a family standing on their suitcases at Waterloo, ten statues that trace four centuries of Britain.
- [A Roman Cup Laced with Roman Nanotechnology and Five More British Museum Treasures That Kept Experts Guessing](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/british-museum-treasures-lycurgus-cup): A cup that changes colour with the light, a vase smashed by a drunken visitor, a reliquary swapped by a forger and a skull that fooled the museum for decades. Six objects at the British Museum reward a second look.
- [Wexford Festival Opera Turns 75: Why This Irish Harbour Town Deserves a Place in Your Diary Every October](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/wexford-festival-opera-turns-75): Three operas, free pop-up performances, lunchtime recitals and wild geese from Greenland make Wexford's 75th festival the start of an October habit.
- [How a Sideways Elm in County Down Outlived the Disease That Killed Britain's Elms](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/bendy-tree-uk-tree-of-the-year-2026): The Bendy Tree, crowned UK Tree of the Year 2026, is the last of its row and one of the few mature elms left on these islands. Its survival story runs through a fungus, a beetle and four Dutch women scientists.
- [Six Opera Festivals to Travel For This Autumn, From Verdi's Parma to Jackie Chan's Turandot in Macao](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/autumn-opera-festivals-2026): From Gozo's rival opera houses to Donizetti's birthday in Bergamo, here is where to hear opera before the year ends and how to spend the days between performances.
- [All Saints in Europe: Six Places Where 1st November Becomes a Festival of Light](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/all-saints-in-europe): From Warsaw to Palermo, Europe remembers its dead with candles on the same two nights. These are six places where you can see it this year.
- [Rules, London's Oldest Restaurant, Is Protected for Good After Its Owner Gave the Building to the National Trust](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/rules-london-oldest-restaurant-national-trust): J-P Mayhew has gifted the Covent Garden home of Rules to the National Trust in a donation worth £11 million, and the restaurant keeps serving as a tenant.
- [Aloha Was a Hawaiian Way of Life for Centuries Before Hawaiʻi Wrote It Into Law](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/aloha-spirit-hawaiian-heritage): Long before the 1986 Aloha Spirit Law, aloha was a shared breath, a family that never closed its doors and a love for the land that feeds you. Here is how to live it.
- [Checkout Chores Are Over: What Airbnb's New House Rules Mean for Your Next Stay](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/airbnb-checkout-chores-rules): From 20 November, Airbnb hosts can no longer require you to strip beds, wash dishes or start the laundry before you leave. Here is what changes, what hosts can still ask and how to be a guest every host wants back.
- [No Airport, No Railway, All Mountain: How to Plan a Meaningful Trip to Andorra](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/meaningful-trip-to-andorra): Europe's highest capital has no runway and has never had a railway. Here is how to reach Andorra slowly, walk its UNESCO valley and travel lightly in the Pyrenees.
- [San Marino by Train: How to Reach Europe's Oldest Republic Without Flying](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/san-marino-by-train): San Marino lost its railway in 1944, but you can still arrive by rail. Here is how to travel to the world's oldest surviving republic slowly, and what to see when you reach the top of Mount Titano.
- [A Cocktail in New York Typically Costs $16, or $10 at Happy Hour](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/nyc-cocktail-prices-happy-hour): Drinks cost less outside Manhattan, and New York's best-rated bars charge no more for a cocktail than the rest, according to a count of nearly 110,000 menu prices.
- [Tanzania Now Requires Foreign Visitors to Buy a $44 Government Travel Insurance Policy](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/tanzania-mandatory-travel-insurance): Sold through the National Insurance Corporation and valid for 92 days, the policy is required even for travelers who already carry cover from home, and visitors who arrive without one can be refused entry.
- [Credit Card Bonuses Will No Longer Count Toward the Southwest Companion Pass From 2027](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/southwest-companion-pass-2027-credit-card-bonuses): Earn the pass under today's rules before the end of 2026 and it stays unlimited through December 2027; after that, three companion trips take 95,000 tier points and unlimited trips take the new Platinum status.
- [Australia Now Has Michelin-Starred Restaurants, and All 11 Are in South Australia](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/does-australia-have-michelin-star-restaurants): Magill Estate Restaurant, at Penfolds' founding vineyard in the Adelaide foothills, holds the country's only two stars, and the ten one-star restaurants run from Adelaide out to the Barossa, the Clare Valley and McLaren Vale.
- [Back on Track: The TGV Train Turns 45 with Winter Seats to the Alps and Germany on Sale](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/tgv-train-turns-45-winter-seats-alps-germany): SNCF Voyageurs marked the anniversary with 450,000 TGV INOUI tickets at 45 per cent off, sold from 6 to 8 October only; extra Christmas-market and ski trains and a sixth daily Paris to Stuttgart service can be booked now.
- [Eight Things to Do in London This Week, from Ian Rankin to Tate Britain's 90s Show](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/things-to-do-in-london-this-week-5-12-october-2026): A free reconstruction of Edward Lloyd's coffee house at the Bank of England Museum, Michael Palin on stage at the Royal Geographical Society and a play whose co-star reads the script for the first time in front of the audience, in the week from Monday 5 October.
- [Argentina Will Offer Citizenship for $350,000 From the Fourth Quarter](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/argentina-citizenship-by-investment-350000): No time living in Argentina is required and a couple with two young children pays $500,000, though two federal appeal courts ruled in June that the 2025 decree behind the scheme could not change the country's citizenship law.
- [Alaska's Northern Lights Season Is Underway, With Strong Aurora Activity Expected for Years](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/alaska-northern-lights-season-new-lodges-tours): A new 10-room lodge near Fairbanks, a helicopter-only viewing dome above Knik Glacier and a small-group truck tour are among the new ways to watch this winter.
- [Smart Day Trips Out of Europe's Most Crowded Cities](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/day-trips-europe-crowded-cities-sintra-pompeii): Sintra, Pompeii, Chianti and Mont-Saint-Michel are all an easy ride from the icons, and when you go matters as much as where.

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