Ask any friend to make top favorite cities, and with a ninety percent chance there will be Istanbul among them - this place is ideal for a weekend trip, but it can easily entertain travelers for more than a week. You can fly to Istanbul by direct regular flight from thirteen Russian cities, it is cheap, tasty and very authentic.

Most of all in life I have succeeded in the game "What if ...?". I love to spontaneously buy a ticket and leave in an unexpected direction. How events will unfold, what ideas will throw life, what people I will face and what will follow after all is how to watch a TV show with your own participation. For the past five years I have been working as a freelancing web designer.

Alexandra Savina It's hard to believe, but there are still places on earth where there are much more animals than people. Some of them were created artificially to protect animals, and somewhere animals occupied the territory on their own. We talk about the island inhabited by rabbits, the temple with rats, the beach owned by pigs, and other places where you can get to know our smaller brothers better.

If winter seems to be an exceptionally unpleasant and dreary season, it means that you have never been to the mountains, just by looking at the snow-capped peaks of which naturally breath-taking - no, not because of frost, but because of incredible beauty. Admiring mountain landscapes is in fact perfectly combined with skiing and snowboarding, which is even nicer.

Third place in the top most dangerous countries; poverty, crime, popular unrest; the highest inflation in the world - in the news about Venezuela rarely say something good, and I, in spite of everything, really miss this country and soon plan to return there. I am a teacher of a foreign language by profession, but for the last five years I have worked as a military translator in Venezuela, and in my native Kazan I have been only on short visits.

My friend - the traveler and record holder of the Guinness Book of Records, Mike Horn - taught me many things. For example, the fact that material values ​​are not really valuable, but what you carry in your heart. And if you are enthusiastic about everything you do, nothing can stop you. And thanks to Mike, I discovered sports tourism.

Courchevel is a resort with a certain reputation and, in fact, a common name. But he has another side that does not fall into the gossip reports. Karina Starobina told how a hostess worked for several months in one of the resort's chalets, what Courchevel really is, who is resting there and how the life of the famous ski resort is arranged.

If we say that in the summer we especially want to go somewhere far away, then we twist our hearts. I want to travel all year round and preferably more often: in the mountains, to the ocean, in a forest hike or a city in which you have never been - all options are good. We regularly publish travelers' stories and their useful tips on what you should pay attention to during the trip, how to prepare for it, and what sights you should not miss in any case.

Stories about moving to another country usually begin with the fact that a person wanted to change something radically in his life. This story is not one of them. I don’t even like the word эми emigration ’precisely because of the hysterical and hysterical connotation that it acquired as a result of dramatic twentieth-century fractures.

My love for Barcelona began with a story worthy of a Hollywood romcom. I flew to this city exactly on the day of my majority, all alone, and spent five days in it - without a special plan, without places to visit, with zero knowledge of Spanish. I walked the streets with my mouth open, admired the balconies and thought: "I want to live here!

Russian autumn can be wonderful - with the warm days of Indian summer, golden leaves, the aroma of late apples in the garden and the strong smell of mushrooms in the forest. But sometimes it happens that cold, light rain pours continuously, the sun does not appear because of the clouds for weeks, and it is cold so that there is no desire to go outside.

IN RUBRIC ABOUT TRAVEL, our heroines tell about their trips around the world. In this issue, Bookmate creative director Nadya Yurinova talks about how to climb the mountain peaks around Mont Blanc, walk along routes with a height difference from 300 to 1100 meters and eat luxurious ban.

The word "tourism" somehow ceased to mean active leisure with a backpack and canned food. We keep fond memories of tent romance, but trying to go camping with friends always rests on the idea of ​​mosquitoes, washing dishes in cold water, amenities in the bushes and other joys. Fortunately, outdoor recreation does not always require such sacrifices: especially for the pampered city dwellers, they came up with glamping - a hybrid of camping and glamorous.

Travel season is in full swing, but even if you are not going anywhere, nothing prevents you from dreaming and making plans for the future. We talk about several beaches where one really wants to get sooner or later - so spectacular that even opponents of a beach holiday cannot stand before them. Some species of plankton in the course of evolution have developed the ability to glow in the dark.

The late arrival of the Russian spring is usually accompanied by inhuman fatigue, even if the previous six months you did not turn the bags around, but just sadly lay on the couch. Rehab, detox and smoothies promise to immediately get rid of seasonal blues, gray complexion and vitamin deficiency, but most of all lures the exciting word "wellness", promising that everything will be fine.

Fun trips with friends, familiar travels together, family vacations by the sea are wonderful. But what if you are tired, and for some reason you can only go on vacation alone? Give up the trip? Urgently to find companions - most likely, unfamiliar and not the fact that pleasant? For some, this is a suitable option, but in general it is not necessary to do so.

I stand in front of a huge showcase of trekking shoes in the AlpIndustry store and remember the movie “Wild.” Good shoes - this is important, without them, the campaign can not be in any way. This is more or less the only thing I know. "When do you leave?" - the sales assistant strictly asks me? "In a week," I reply, looking at his frowning face.

We travel no less than reading books, watching movies or listening to music, and even at the planning stage of a future trip we choose where to go and what interesting things to see there. Wonderzine has compiled a small guide to the cultural events of the fall in 10 major cities of the world, where you can go for a weekend or take a week off and relax as it should.

When we decided to go to America, we realized that we wanted to thoroughly cut it with wheels and poke tent pegs into its land. Our route began on August 4 at exactly 7 am in Chicago, Illinois, and ended on the evening of August 24 in Los Angeles, California - the full version of our travel diary with all the stops can be read on Tumblr.

It seems like long road trips are in my blood. With my parents, I managed to travel half of Russia on an old red Mercedes. I was always eagerly awaiting a regular trip - to relatives on the Sea of ​​Azov or to friends in Voronezh. I love to travel: there is nothing more exciting than to leave the comfort zone and challenge yourself.