Belgian beer is hard to beat, and the best of it comes from the Trappist breweries, marked [T] below. Trappist beer has to be brewed inside a monastery, by or under the supervision of the monks, with the profits going to the community and charity. Only a small number of breweries in the world qualify,
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We’ve been caught out by this more than once. A data connection that worked fine at the hotel cuts out the moment you’re on a rural road, or roaming charges kick in and you switch data off — and suddenly you’re navigating by road signs in a language you don’t speak. The fix takes two
Bank ATMs in the USA charge $3.50–$5 for non-customers. Here is where to find surcharge-free ATMs on the US East Coast — Wawa, Sheetz, Cumberland Farms — and the best travel cards to sidestep fees entirely.
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La Pelosa is, in our view (arguably), the most impressive beach in Europe. The only other one that comes close is Illetes in Formentera, the same powder-white sand, the same improbable turquoise water, the same low Mediterranean light, but La Pelosa has a medieval tower rising out of the sea just offshore and a 360-degree
A friend paid £2.5 to withdraw cash in London last month. The machine charging that fee was a freestanding unit in a newsagent’s. A free machine (a Nationwide branch) was forty steps away on the same street. We went to Alicante (Spain) two months ago. The closest ATM, by BBVA, was charging €8.5! We didn’t
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ATM surcharges now hit around 60% of UK cash machines. Here is how to find free ATMs in London and the UK, which operators charge most, and how the LINK network works.
We spent a week in Alicante recently and made it our mission to eat as well as possible — which, in a city where the fish comes straight off the boats in Santa Pola and the rice traditions run deep, turned out to be remarkably easy. Alicante doesn’t shout about its food scene the way
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On 19 March 2026, King Charles III walked two kilometres along the Seven Sisters cliffs in East Sussex and officially opened the longest managed coastal path in the world. After 18 years of planning, negotiation, and construction, you can now walk virtually the entire English coastline — 2,689 miles of it — without breaking a
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GPS map updates from manufacturers can cost £50–100+ per year. This guide shows you how to update your Garmin sat nav with the latest maps completely free using OpenStreetMap data, which is often more current than official maps. Garmin maps are simple .img files (files with .img extension). So updating or adding maps is as
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