The short answer is no. If you’re a US citizen, you do not need a passport to travel to Puerto Rico. You can fly there on a domestic ticket, pass through security with a driver’s license or state ID, and land without going through customs or border control. For most Americans, it feels indistinguishable from…
There are so many amazing things to do in Old San Juan, but I want to tell you about the cats first. Old San Juan has cats everywhere—lounging on the blue cobblestones, draped across the walls of the old city fortifications, slow blinking at tourists from the shade of a bougainvillea. Nobody seems entirely sure…
If you’re trying to figure out the best hotels in St Andrews, Scotland, this guide covers all of it: splurge-worthy stays on the Old Course, boutique hotels in the town center, and apartment or house rentals for groups, based on four years of actually living there as a student. I’ll walk through what each one…
I was standing at a miraduoro in Lisbon, looking out at genuinely one of the most stunning cityscapes I’ve ever seen in my life, when I noticed the couple next to me wasn’t looking at the view at all. They were looking at their phones, trying to figure out if they could still make the…
There’s a stretch of the Kinness Burn, just past Lamond Drive, where the local ducks have clearly decided the humans owe them something. I walked past most mornings on my way into town when I was a student at St Andrews, and there was always a small committee of them parked on the grass bank,…
Most people show up to St Andrews, Scotland with one of two ideas already in their head: golf, or Prince William. Both are true enough, but neither is the place you’ll actually find once you’re there: a small, walkable university town on Scotland’s east coast with three main streets, a ruined cathedral at one end,…
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