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Every year on 12 December, Turkmenistan celebrates National Neutrality Day — a public holiday unlike almost any other in the world. It marks the moment in 1995 when the United Nations formally recognized Turkmenistan as a permanently neutral state. In a world shaped by alliances, blocs, and military treaties, neutrality is not just a policy…

London doesn’t usually do subtlety when it comes to luxury hotels. But The Chancery Rosewood — the city’s newest ultra-luxury opening in Mayfair — is an exception. Quiet, cultured, architectural, and deeply refined, it transforms the former U.S. Embassy on Grosvenor Square into something rare: a hotel that feels both historic and modern, both grand…

A QuixoticGuide.com editorial travel post Some cities tell their story through their skyline, others through their cuisine — but UNESCO Cities of Literature tell theirs through words. These are places where literature isn’t just art: it’s heritage, identity, and urban DNA. For a traveler, they’re a global network of creative refuges — places where cafés…

How one man used travel not as escape — but as transformation. Peter the Great stands out in history not just for building St. Petersburg or modernizing Russia, but because he understood something remarkably modern: travel changes people — and changed nations.At a time when rulers rarely left their courts, Peter took the opposite path.…

Some cities grow so vast, so interconnected, and so permanently in motion that a single airport simply can’t carry their rhythm. These are the dual-airport cities — metropolises where two aviation ecosystems coexist: one usually built for long-haul reach, the other for convenience, domestic routes, or low-cost agility. As someone who checks approach charts the…

The man who mapped the world without ever intending to leave home. Mick Jagger never applied for the role of “world traveler.” No vision board, no bucket list, no Lonely Planet guide dog-eared on a nightstand. And yet, somewhere between a teenage blues band and a 60-year phenomenon, he managed to draw his own private…