Windsor, North America
Windsor: Border City, Whisky & Detroit Views
You Look South to See Downtown Detroit: Windsor is the one place in Canada where you look south into the United States - from the riverfront the Detroit skyl…
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Boulder, North America
Boulder: Flatirons, Foothills & Free-Range Overachievers
The Bubble: Locals call Boulder 'the Bubble' (or '25 square miles surrounded by reality') - a wealthy, educated, outdoorsy city of ~105,000 where everyone se…
Pai, Southeast Asia
Pai: Shan Valley Slow Life Beyond the Backpacker Bubble
762 Curves Rule Your Arrival: Highway 1095 from Chiang Mai has 762 bends over 135 km. Locals treat the drive as a rite of passage and carry motion-sickness p…
Erlangen, Western Europe
Erlangen: Huguenot Grid, Berch Beer & Quiet Franconian Soul
The Fifth Season: Erlangen locals count four seasons plus the Bergkirchweih, simply called "der Berch" (the hill). For twelve days around Pentecost the whole…
Oakland, North America
Oakland: The Town, Lake Merritt & Bay Area Soul
It's "The Town", Not "Oakland, SF's Sidekick": Locals say "the Town" and bristle when you call it a suburb of San Francisco - it has its own skyline, port, a…
Phu Quoc, Southeast Asia
Phu Quoc: Fish Sauce, Pepper and Island Time
A City That Is Also an Island: Phu Quoc is Vietnam's biggest island and, since the July 2025 provincial merger that folded Kien Giang into An Giang, an admin…