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Horoscope June 2023: The Best Days to Travel, and Who to Travel With This Month

Professional astrologer Kirah Tabourn reads your monthly horoscope—and spells out how it may shape your travels.
Style & Culture

Singer Ayra Starr's Guide to Lagos

The Nigerian singer on her favorite Yoruba dish, late-night jazz club, and beaches around Lagos.

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We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.

Style & Culture

How I Travel: Rachel E. Cargle Has Great Advice for Solo Trips

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
Style & Culture

How I Travel: Queen Charlotte’s Arsema Thomas Listens to Otis Redding to Sleep on Planes

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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How I Travel: Toni Collette Found Heaven on the Italian Island of Ponza

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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How I Travel: Melissa McCarthy Wants You to Be Nicer to Gate Agents

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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How I Travel: Brittany O’Grady Doesn’t Do Bougie

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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How I Travel: Chelsea Handler Bought a First Class Flight with Babysitting Money as a Teen

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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How I Travel: Regina Hall Likes a Small Hotel Room

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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How I Travel: Allison Williams Thinks Bare Feet on Planes Should Be Illegal

We peek into the airport routines and bizarre quirks of the world's most well-traveled people.
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Can Vacation Sex Save a Relationship? Catherine Cohen Investigates

Just as her relationship hits rocky ground in Europe, the comedian checks in to a sex hotel
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Gabrielle Union Celebrated Turning 50 By Visiting Ghana, Zanzibar, Namibia, and More

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with the actor about making such a major trip, which is captured in a two-part docuseries, alongside a large group of friends and family.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: New York's Chinatown Through the Eyes of a Family That's Been There for Generations

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with Ava Chin about her journey to understand her heritage, the history of the neighborhood, and more.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Living Wildly in Patagonia With Conservationist Kris Tompkins

Host Lale Arikoglu sits down with Tompkins and reminisces on her own experiences in this magical part of the world.
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The Women Reinterpreting Henna for the Modern Generation

A meaningful exploration of the history and evolution of henna, told through the mesmerizing designs of artists old and new.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Writer Elise Hu on Life in Seoul and the Rise of K-Beauty

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with Hu about her new book, which dives deep into the six billion dollar Korean beauty industry. 
Food & Drink

Lessons on Longevity and Wellbeing From Greece’s Yiayias

From fresh herbs and garden vegetables, to traditions like folk dancing and homemade wine, Greece's yiayias share their philosophies on food and life with cookbook author Anastasia Miari.
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After Loss, Helping My Mother-in-Law Find Joy Again on a Broadway Cruise

The lively sailing allowed us both to rediscover our passions—and proved that the show really does go on.
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Inside the Fight to Allow Flight Attendants and Pilots to Pump Breast Milk at 30,000 Feet

Flight attendants and pilots were recently excluded from expansive new federal laws that protect pumping in the workplace.
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The Unexpected Upsides of Traveling On Your Period

Five women on how traveling while menstruating enhanced their adventures.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: An Episode Dedicated to the Ultimate Travel Companions—Our Mothers

Host Lale Arikoglu catches up with Connie Wang about her new book ‘Oh My Mother’ and hears from listeners about their own mother-daughter trips.
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Meet Apo Whang-Od, the 106-Year-Old Woman Keeping an Ancient Filipino Tattooing Tradition Alive

The thousand-year-old practice of batok will live on, in Buscalan and around the world, thanks to the descendants Apo Whang-Od has been training and inspiring.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Lyse Doucet Likes to Think of the BBC as Her Passport

Doucet joins host Lale Arikoglu to chat about working in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Brazil, and more.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Arsema Thomas on Filming the 'Bridgerton' Spin-Off Inside English Country Homes and Traveling Across Africa

Host Lale Arikoglu sits down with the actor on the eve of the Bridgerton prequel's release.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: What It Takes to Become a Free Diver, Caring for Our Oceans, and More

Host Lale Arikoglu catches up with Black Mermaid Foundation founder, Zandile Ndhlovu.