Historic Prague hub between Wenceslas Square and Charles Bridge
A tour across Italy’s lesser-known towns—from Tropea in Calabria to Torre di Palme in Marche and Barga in Tuscany—highlights regional hospitality, cuisine, and luxury travel, amid new luxury hotels and evolving cultural offerings.
A wave of UK and European travel pieces are steering readers toward autumn getaways, with Cornwall topping a reader travel awards and St Ives standing out as a surf-and-art hub. Pieces highlight off-season value, non-flight stays, and regional diversity.
Travel pieces reflect on Europe’s summer hotspots, with some destinations gaining calm after peak season and readers weighing where to go next despite mixed experiences.
Protesters have gathered in Prague as the lower house advances a plan to fund Czech Television and Czech Radio from the state budget, cutting current fees by about 15%. The move, supported by PM Babis’s coalition, has drawn criticism that it could empower the government to influence public media; staff plan a strike on Nov. 3 and rallies are planned for Nov. 15.