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A good Christmas market has a few essentials — vendors selling homemade crafts, twinkling lights on the trees, and traditional music blaring through the speakers.

Toast the Holidays at the World’s Most Magical Christmas Markets

Thrillist Itineraries

Thrillist destination guides with local expertise to help with everything you need to know before embarking on your next adventure.

Thrillist Itineraries Destination Guides: Things to Do and Everything You Need to Know Before Traveling

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Paris might not be the first city that springs to mind when you’re looking for a sports-friendly vacation, but the capital of romance is teeming with things to do and see for athletes and sports fans alike.

How to Spend Two Sporty Days in Paris

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As the nation gears up for its 250th birthday in 2026, forget two-party politics in favor of the only trio everyone can agree upon: In Washington, D.C., breakfast, lunch, and dinner are just as celebrated as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

How to Eat and Drink Your Way through Washington, D.C.

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Satisfy your urge for IRL exploration with Thrillist Road Trips. We'll help you find the best roadside oddities, funky towns, and beautiful scenery that's just a drive away.

Thrillist Road Trips: Roadside Oddities, Funky Towns & More

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For such a small slice of the map, Northern Italy packs in a show-stopping mix of scenery.

An Action-Packed Road Trip Through Northern Italy

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A Book Lover’s Guide to Exploring Paris

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At the sound of a sharp whistle, the Harris’s hawk spread its ruddy wings and sped like a yellow-beaked bullet through the humid summer air, landing with the lightness of a fallen sheet of loose leaf on my leather-gloved hand.

Why Your Next Vacation Should Be a Skillcation

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On a sun-drenched hillside on the western side of Ikaria, an island in the Aegean about seven hours east of Athens, I found myself hauling crates of olives up a winding stone path, my palms aching and slick.

What It’s Like to Trade for Food and Lodging on Greece’s Bartering Island

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Traveling to Rome with a group adds another layer of intensity to an already whirlwind trip: more opinions, more personalities, more chances for someone to declare mutiny over an ill-advised Vatican visit during a heatwave.

A Stress-Free Guide to Traveling Through Rome With a Group

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Excitedly planning a trip to major cities in Spain, Italy, or Portugal this summer?

Should You Still Go to Europe This Summer?

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How to Spend Two Family-Friendly Days in Rome

How to See Rome’s Extensive Art Scene in Just Two Days

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The last time Mathilde N. had walked through the doors of one of Paris’s most legendary nightclubs, she was untethered, childless, and carefree.

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Toast the Holidays at the World’s Most Magical Christmas Markets

So merry, so bright.

How to Spend Two Sporty Days in Paris

The City of Lights is also a city full of hoops, stadiums, and sneakers

How to Eat and Drink Your Way through Washington, D.C.

From an iconic chili spot to a Michelin-starred Palestinian restaurant, here’s where to dine in the nation’s capital

An Action-Packed Road Trip Through Northern Italy

Experience the best of Lake Garda, the Dolomites, and Venice in just a few days

A Book Lover’s Guide to Exploring Paris

Live out your literary fantasies in the City of Light while shopping for novels along the Seine, dining at Hemingway’s favorite brasseries, and visiting Victor Hugo’s home

Why Your Next Vacation Should Be a Skillcation

Learn to cook in Italy or Scuba dive in Fiji—your brain will thank you

What It’s Like to Trade for Food and Lodging on Greece’s Bartering Island

Most travel is tethered to a credit card swipe, but not in Ikaria, where locals and tourists have been exchanging childcare, haircuts, and language lessons for decades

A Stress-Free Guide to Traveling Through Rome With a Group

With a little planning and a lot of flexibility, Rome’s private palace tours, guided wine tastings, and sprawling ruins make for a perfect group trip

Should You Still Go to Europe This Summer?

Museum strikes, water-gun attacks: what to know about the overtourism protests in Europe

How to Spend Two Family-Friendly Days in Rome

Rome may not be a theme park, but its child-inclusive culture turns cobblestone piazzas and corner cafes into Renaissance playgrounds for the whole family

How to See Rome’s Extensive Art Scene in Just Two Days

Go to major sites like the Pantheon and lesser known palazzos filled with Renaissance masterpieces

At Women-Only Dance Parties in Europe, Moms Just Want to Have Fun

Family-friendly hours, plenty of Spice Girls, and, most importantly, no men makes for one helluva good night out