Fernweh (German, noun) — a longing for faraway places.
The travel journal by Elenel Getaways
Fernweh is where Elenel Getaways goes beyond the holiday brochure.
We follow interesting journeys, question familiar travel wisdom, investigate the places behind extraordinary photographs and find the useful details that can make a good holiday considerably better.
Sometimes an Exceptional Holiday gives us the idea. Sometimes a place, photograph or question sends us looking.
Either way, the story comes first.
No runway. No direct flight. Sometimes not even a particularly convenient ferry. Yet some of Greece’s most rewarding islands may have kept their character precisely because getting there requires one more step.
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The Stones in Chicago. Elvis in Memphis. Armstrong in New Orleans. Follow the familiar names, then leave room for the music you haven’t heard yet.
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Bangkok at full tilt. Northern Thailand at elephant pace. Then seven nights beside the Andaman Sea. Perhaps the cleverest thing about this multi-centre journey is that it eventually stops moving.
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River cruising usually means the Rhine or Danube. Colombia’s Magdalena offers colonial towns, small river communities, birdlife and cumbia — but does cruising bring you closer to Colombia or keep it comfortably at arm’s length?
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Turquoise water and palm trees can make every Maldives resort look interchangeable. They aren’t. The island you choose determines almost everything about the holiday.
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