Quixoticguide

Some mountain towns shout their presence with skyscraping peaks and adrenaline-fuelled chaos. Megève doesn’t. It glides into your memory instead — like freshly groomed snow under early-morning skis, or the soft clink of coffee cups on a sunlit terrace with Mont Blanc hovering in the distance. Nestled in the Haute-Savoie, Megève feels less like a…

There are cities you walk through, and there are cities you look up to. For travelers like me, skyscrapers are not just feats of engineering — they are geographic statements of ambition, markers of moments when a city decided to announce itself to the world. From desert skylines to humid megacities, the world’s tallest buildings…

Christmas is often imagined as something fixed: the same table, the same lights, the same songs, year after year. But travel reveals another truth—Christmas is not a place, it’s a feeling, and that feeling wears many accents. In Vienna, Christmas smells like roasted chestnuts and mulled wine. Markets glow softly against imperial façades, violins echo…

There are cities you visit, and cities that quietly rearrange you. Beirut belongs firmly to the second category. At first glance, Beirut feels like a contradiction in motion. Palm-lined boulevards run parallel to bullet-scarred façades. Beach clubs pulse with music while, less than an hour away, the Mount Lebanon rise high enough to hold snow…

You will never see them on a postcard. There are no observation decks, no visitor centres, no Instagram viewpoints. And yet, coltan mines are among the most important places on Earth. Coltan—short for columbite–tantalite—is a mineral most of us have never heard of, but one we all carry. Inside your smartphone, laptop, camera, or noise-cancelling…