Honest side-by-side comparisons for places people often weigh against each other.
Three sets of Indian Ocean islands, often booked as if they were interchangeable. They are not. Here is how they differ by season, by flight, by style and by the kind of traveller each one suits.
The herds do not recognise the border, so the real question is not which country but which month. Here is where the migration usually is through the year, what the river crossings are really like, and how to avoid the crowds.
Three southern Italian summers, three very different holidays. Cliffs and boats, farmhouses and white towns, or baroque cities and a volcano. What each does well, what each does badly, and who each one suits.
