# 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
- [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.
- [On Gorgona, Europe's Last Prison Island, the Men Make a Wine That Has Just Reached America](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/gorgona-prison-island-wine-frescobaldi-us): A white pressed from vineyards worked by inmates on a Tuscan penal colony has crossed the Atlantic for the first time, carrying with it a rehabilitation project now in its fourteenth year.
- [Huntington Beach Is California's First Sensory-Inclusive Certified Destination](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/huntington-beach-sensory-inclusive-certified-destination): Surf City USA trained more than 1,500 staff and public-safety workers to earn KultureCity certification, a real signal for families traveling with sensory needs even as the specifics still come down to checking each venue.
- [Roberta Sabbatini Reimagines Wedding Favours with the Italian Market](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/roberta-sabbatini-italian-market-wedding-favours): The London-based founder of ItalianTouch Events has planned weddings in Italy for couples from abroad for more than twenty years. At her Italian Market, guests fill their own bottles from an olive-oil barrel and choose produce from the region they are marrying in instead of collecting a box.
- [What a Great Time to Be Alive: Three Lessons from Sixteen Nights on the Road in Italy](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/what-a-great-time-to-be-alive-three-lessons-italy-road-trip): The second letter in the series, on leaving the hired car parked, going when the gardens and boats are closing for the season, and giving one night the weight of five.
- [Happy Table: What to Eat on Your Italy Road Trip](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/happy-table-what-to-eat-italy-road-trip-autumn): Moeche in the Venice lagoon through October and November, the Crastatone chestnut festival at Piancastagnaio from 31 October to 2 November and the white truffle fair at San Giovanni d'Asso on the weekends of 7 and 14 November set the table for our five stops from Venice to the Val d'Orcia.
- [Five Stops and One Car: Our Italy Road Trip from Venice to the Val d'Orcia This Autumn](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/italy-road-trip-venice-como-cinque-terre-florence-val-dorcia): Three nights in Venice, five on Lake Como, three in the Cinque Terre, four in Florence and one in the Val d'Orcia, driven in the weeks when Venice charges no access fee and the lake villas start closing for the winter.
- [London  Calling: Design Festival Finale, Fashion Week and Oktoberfest](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/london-this-week-14-20-september-2026): London is a great destination this autumn. What is happening in London this week? Check Covent Garden on Monday, Brentford host Chelsea on Friday night, the Pearly Kings and Queens gather at Guildhall Yard on Sunday, just to mention a few from over 150 events happening this week.
- [Almost Every US Red-Eye Flight Takes Off in the West](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/red-eye-flights-west-record-high-bts-data): Overnight flying just hit a record high, and the reason it clusters out West is the clock: a plane leaving California at midnight lands in New York at breakfast, while the same trip flown the other way would arrive in the dead of night.
- [What a Great Time to Be Alive: Explore Without Prejudice](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/great-time-to-be-alive-three-things-travel-europe): Our new series, What a Great Time To Be Alive, opens with Lessons Learned Away from Home and the editor's own experience: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a stone from the shore in your shoe, so the place walks home with you.
- [Autumn Rail Holidays in Europe Come in Two Windows, Before 10 October and After 2 November](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/autumn-rail-holidays-europe-two-windows): October has less than half of August's overnight stays across the EU and the cheapest Eurostar fare is the same £39 it was in summer, with senior cards taking up to half off the rest; the catch is that hotel rates have barely moved.
- [Golden Lions  Destination: Venice Opens Its 83rd Festival ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/golden-lions-destination-venice-opens-its-83rd-festival): The world's oldest film festival opens on the Lido with honorary Golden Lions for George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn.
- [Airport Starbucks Can Cost 56% More Than Downtown, or Almost Nothing Extra](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/airport-starbucks-prices-markup-street-pricing-238532): A handful of airports make their shops match street prices and check that they do, which is the whole reason the same five items swing by more than half depending on where you fly.
- [Jonathan the Tortoise Is 194. What His Slow Life Teaches Us About Longevity?](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/jonathan-the-tortoise-is-194-what-his-slow-life-teaches-us-about-longevity): Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise recognised by Guinness World Records, living on St Helena, is the oldest known living land animal at 194 years old, and his biology may hold real clues for human ageing research.
- [Club Med Has Finished Its Move Upmarket and Filed to Go Public in Hong Kong](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/club-med-premium-hong-kong-ipo-220679): The company that invented the all-inclusive holiday has spent twenty years closing its cheap resorts and capping its luxury tier, and now it wants public money for what comes next.
- [No More Paying to Sit With Your Own Children on a Plane](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/no-more-paying-to-sit-with-your-own-children-on-a-plane): After more than a decade stuck in negotiation, the European Parliament has approved a genuine overhaul of air passenger rights, banning airlines from charging parents to sit next to children under 14 and forcing clearer pricing from the moment you start searching for a flight.
- [London Calling: The Week Starting 31 August 2026 ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/london-calling-the-week-starting-31-august-2026): What is on in London for the week starting 31 August 2026, from Bank Holiday Monday closings to the start of Totally Thames.
- [The Fare You See When You Shop for Flights May Stop Being the Full Price](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/dot-full-fare-advertising-rule-airline-prices): A Transportation Department proposal would let airlines show taxes and fees as prominently as the all-in total, and the public comment window on the plan has just closed.
- [Four of Europe's Coolest Cities Are Set to Be Connected by a Brand New Sleeper Train](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/four-of-europe-s-coolest-cities-are-set-to-be-connected-by-a-brand-new-sleeper-train): European Sleeper and German operator RDC have announced a new overnight train connecting Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Malmö, launching April 2028.
- [Miami Voters Approve a Deal to Reopen the Abandoned Marine Stadium on Biscayne Bay](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/miami-marine-stadium-vote-reopen-restoration): The August 18 vote hands a 40-year operating contract to an arena company, though the roughly $65 million restoration still depends on a bond the city has not yet issued.
- [The Scottish Riviera This Autumn](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/the-scottish-riviera-this-autumn): Dumfries and Galloway has carried the nickname for over a century, a stretch of Scotland's southwest coast warmed by the same Gulf Stream that keeps palm trees alive in gardens more usually associated with rain. Here is what is actually on this week, and how to get there from London without setting foot on a plane.
- [Escape to Europe: Slovenia in Autumn Colours ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/escape-to-europe-slovenia-in-autumn-colours): A country the size of a modest American county holds an entire autumn's worth of colour inside its borders, lakes, gorges and mountain passes turning gold and copper within an hour's drive of each other, and almost nobody there to see it happen.
- [Notting Hill Carnival 2026: The Vibes, the Heritage, and the Hard Questions Underneath Them ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/notting-hill-carnival-2026-the-vibes-the-heritage-and-the-hard-questions-underneath-them): What Notting Hill Carnival actually stands for, its Windrush-era origins, the safety measures for 2026, and how London's relationship with the event is more complicated than the party suggests.
- [US Airfares Rose 17% in a Year While Trips Barely Moved](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/us-airfares-up-17-percent-trips-flat-july-2026): Total US travel-agency air spending reached $9.6 billion in July, and fares that have climbed every month of 2026 explain why the bill keeps growing.
- [Your Travel Credit Card Barely Covers a Medical Emergency Abroad](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/travel-credit-card-coverage-gaps-abroad): Most premium travel cards pay to fly you home in a crisis, but the hospital bill that comes first is largely on you.
- [How to Choose the Best Affordable Hotels in Europe This Autumn ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/how-to-choose-the-best-affordable-hotels-in-europe-this-autumn): Best Affordable Hotels in Europe This Autumn seoDescription: How to find genuinely good, affordable hotels across Europe this autumn, from timing your booking to picking the right city.
- [Back on Track: 8 Destinations to Discover by Train in Europe This Autumn](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/back-on-track-8-destinations-to-discover-by-train-in-europe-this-autumn): New night train and Eurostar routes are opening up Europe this autumn. Here are 8 destinations to reach by rail, and why each one is worth the journey.
- [Escape to Europe: Where to Go Before the Season Turns ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/escape-to-europe-where-to-go-before-the-season-turns): The window between the last crowded weekend of August and the first cold snap of November is Europe's best kept secret. Here is where that window is widest this year, and why the destinations that made headlines for overcrowding all summer are, right now, the smartest booking on the continent.
- [Back On Track: Escape to Europe's New Routes Opening This Autumn and the World's Most Luxurious Train Suite](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/back-on-track-the-new-routes-opening-this-autumn-and-the-world-s-most-luxurious-train-suite): European rail is having its busiest year in a generation, from a restored Budapest to Belgrade line to a new Prague to Copenhagen express. But nothing matches the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express's newest carriage, an entire 1920s sleeper reimagined by the artist JR.
- [Best UK Gardens to Visit This Autumn ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/best-uk-gardens-to-visit-this-autumn): A warm, sunny summer has loaded British trees with sugar, and Forestry England is predicting an early, vivid start to autumn colour. Four UK gardens worth the drive, and what makes each one genuinely different from the rest.
- [Relocation's Cost when Moving to the World's Best Countries for High Quality of Life](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/relocation-s-cost-when-moving-to-the-world-s-best-countries-with-high-quality-of-life): Real relocation costs for the Netherlands, Switzerland and Oman, 2026's top ranked quality of life countries, from visas to healthcare.
- [Cathedrals Are Becoming Ticketed Light-Show Venues to Fund Their Own Restoration](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/immersive-light-shows-cathedrals-restoration): On October 1, an immersive video and choral production opens inside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, joining a fast-growing circuit of ticketed light shows now running in active churches from Brussels to Sao Paulo, and raising a real question about where preservation ends and spectacle begins.
- [Total Solar Eclipse 12 August 2026: Best Places to Watch, Safely ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/total-solar-eclipse-12-august-2026-best-places-to-watch-safely): For two minutes and eighteen seconds, somewhere over the Greenland Sea, day will turn briefly into night. It is the first total solar eclipse to touch Spain in 121 years as the last total eclipse was recorded on August 30, 1905 and it comes with a built-in bonus: the Perseid meteor shower, peaking the very same week.
- [The King's Path: Scotland's Royal Travel Itinerary ](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/the-king-s-path-scotland-s-royal-travel-itinerary): A Scotland travel itinerary following King Charles III's real favourite places, from Dumfries House to Royal Deeside and the Castle of Mey. Three houses, one royal family and a route across Scotland that runs from a rescued Ayrshire estate to a windswept castle near John O'Groats. Follow the places King Charles actually loves, and discover the best time to see them is usually when he is nowhere near.
- [British Travellers Are Dropping Destinations They Cannot Pronounce, Mostly for Fear of Sounding Rude](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/britons-skip-destinations-they-cannot-pronounce): Americans walk away from the booking far more often, but Britons are the ones who say they want to fix it, and nearly nine in ten of them do.
- [Backpack: Two Days by Rail From Paris to the Cinque Terre of Liguria](https://richtravelmagazine.com/article/backpack-two-days-by-rail-from-paris-to-the-cinque-terre-of-liguria): No direct train links Paris to Cinque Terre, and that turns out to be the appeal rather than the obstacle. A two-day rail itinerary through the Alps to Italy's most photographed coastline, arriving in Vernazza with nothing but a backpack. Find out what to pack light and what to eat in Vernazza.

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