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  • Walking Ancient Rome: How to Read the Forum, the Palatine, and the Appian Way

    Ancient Rome has a problem that no other ruin field on earth quite shares: it sits in the middle of a working city, and it does not explain itself. Visitors walk into the Roman Forum expecting to feel two thousand years of history and instead find a sunken field of broken columns with no obvious order, hemmed in by traffic. Twenty minutes later many of them are quietly wondering if they are missin

  • The Best Things to Do in Bangkok

    Bangkok overwhelms people on arrival, and that is part of its charm. The heat hits you at the airport, the traffic looks impossible, the city sprawls in every direction, and the noise does not stop. First-timers often spend a day or two just finding their feet. But few cities in Asia reward you more once you know what to aim for, and the trick is working out which of the thousand possible things a