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In our journey information roundup this week: how airways ensure your pilot is sober, what actually occurs inside a Turkish bathtub, and why there’s a worldwide sprint to safe second passports.
Starting over in Germany and Sweden
Dual citizenship — the capability to be a citizen of multiple nation — has lengthy been the dream of many vacationers and expats. Right now, a global rush for second passports is intensifying as nations round the world tighten necessities. For those that get hold of the proper to dwell overseas, whether or not by citizenship or visa, the transfer might be transformative.
Kate Raidt moved along with her son from Atlanta to Germany a yr and a half in the past and went by the “long and challenging process” of getting a visa. It was all value it, she says, as the relocation’s gone “way better than anyone could have imagined.”
She now lives in the southern metropolis of Ulm, near the pure fantastic thing about the Danube River and the Bavarian Alps, and is having fun with a brand new outdoorsy life-style. It’s accomplished wonders for her psychological and bodily well being, she says.
In 2022, San Diego lady Arabella Carey Adolfsson moved to a Swedish island along with her husband, a Swede. The winters “can be quite brutal,” she tells NCS, and he or she misses her household again house. “There was a huge slice of my life that was taken away and I still haven’t figured out what to replace it with.”
The large factor she’s realized is {that a} psychological reset is vital to adapting to a brand new nation. “It’s a matter of reworking the program in your head that you were used to running,” she says, “and running a new program.”
Thinking of slicing again on the booze for 2026? It’ll make you much less prone to get right into a spot of hassle on a aircraft, for one factor. There’s one widespread theme on the subject of in-flight passenger incidents, a criminology professor tells NCS: “Alcohol. Alcohol. Alcohol.”
The aviation trade is in settlement that drunk airline passengers are an issue. The large headscratcher is find out how to repair it. Banning dangerous apples? Limiting drinks at the airport? We took a take a look at this complicated debate.
It’s not simply cockeyed prospects who may cause hassle in the skies; pickled pilots are additionally a trigger for concern. While it’s uncommon for business crews to try to fly below the affect, a string of incidents lately has introduced the subject to the forefront. Read our story about the precautions airways take to ensure your pilot is sober.
Alcohol-free carousing is a rising motion amongst youthful individuals and it’s taking the international get together scene in an surprising path. From South Korea to Paris, revelers at the moment are having fun with sober raves, dancing at dawn in healthful venues reminiscent of bakeries and low retailers.
Hamams, or Turkish baths, are a social ritual in Turkey courting again greater than a thousand years, however what actually goes on inside these temples of steam and cleaning soap?
A heat, tranquil world the place you might be washed clear by an attendant is a return to childhood, even to the womb. Here’s why followers say it leaves them feeling brand new.
The Finnish custom of sauna (sweating it out in a wood field) has additionally unfold past Scandinavia and is a rising wellness development worldwide.
Going from the sizzling sauna to a chilly plunge is the most difficult little bit of the sauna expertise, however when you love going au naturel all yr spherical, might we advocate our roundup of the finest nude beaches in the US?
Don’t go disrobing with out figuring out the etiquette, although: right here’s our Twenty first-century information to taking off your clothes.
See what’s drawing Americans to this picturesque a part of the British countryside
Drawn by historic houses, seclusion and a slower tempo of life, a rising variety of Americans are settling in England’s Cotswolds — swapping US life for village routines, honey-colored cottages and quiet consolation.
A primary look inside an historical Roman house.
History buffs can now virtually tour a former aristocratic residence that’s greater than 2,000 years previous.
The world’s strongest passports of 2026.
The fortunate residents of this country can go to greater than 190 locations visa-free.
A NASA mission. A cell outage. A metropolis on edge.
What do you bear in mind from the week that was?
Young persons are touring the world for free.
And they’re risking everything to do it.