Sarah Mitchell

What Is the Best Thing to Do in St. Augustine? The best thing to do in St. Augustine is walk into the Castillo de San Marcos and put your hand on a coquina wall that has been standing since 1695. The Spanish built this fort to defend the oldest city in the United States, and […]

Oxford is the oldest university city in the English-speaking world. The university has been teaching here since approximately 1096 to 1167, making it older than most nations. The Bodleian Library – where Hermione snuck into the Restricted Section in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – has been operating since 1602 and holds over 13

Liverpool is the only UNESCO City of Music in England. Four lads from this city changed popular music forever. The Cavern Club is still there on Mathew Street, still hosting live music every afternoon and evening, still the most specific single address in the history of rock and roll. The Beatles Story at the Royal

What Are the Best Things to Do in Cambridge? The single best thing to do in Cambridge is to attend the free Choral Evensong at King’s College Chapel at 5:30 PM on any weekday – the world’s finest Perpendicular Gothic fan vault above you, one of the greatest choirs in the world performing below it,

What Are the Best Things to Do in Berlin? The best things to do in Berlin cover more history per square kilometre than any other city in Europe. The Reichstag dome is free and gives you the most historically loaded view on the continent: you look down through glass into the German parliament chamber from

What Are the Best Things to Do in Budapest? Budapest is the most underrated capital city in Europe, and almost everyone who visits says the same thing: they should have come sooner. The Hungarian Parliament Building glows amber along the Danube at night in a reflection so perfect it looks painted. The Szechenyi Thermal Baths

Paris is the most visited city on earth, which means everything here works at a scale that no other city operates at. The Louvre holds 35,000 works of art and is the most visited museum in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most visited paid monument in the world. The Mona Lisa is the

Dublin is smaller than you expect and denser than any map prepares you for. The city centre is walkable from end to end in 40 minutes, but those 40 minutes pass through 1,000 years of history, four Nobel Prize winners’ addresses, the oldest university library in Ireland, the pub where Ulysses’s Leopold Bloom had his

Glasgow has more free world-class museums than any UK city outside London. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum – Scotland’s most visited free attraction – holds Salvador Dalí’s Christ of St John of the Cross, a Second World War Spitfire suspended from the ceiling, a stuffed elephant named Sir Roger who stands 10.5 feet tall,

Nobody knows who Banksy is, and Banksy is from Bristol. The world’s most famous street artist grew up in this city and his original works are still here – on the sides of buildings, above shop doorways, on the backs of road signs – in the specific urban fabric that produced the most consequential artistic