Not content to simply swim in it, fill balloons with it, shoot it at bystanders during massive water fights or mix it with whiskey, people never cease to find amazing ways to make water even more incredible than it already is.
Blasting it sky high, illuminating it with dazzling lights, surrounding it with classical sculpture ... as the magnificent fountains below illustrate, if you're only using water to drink and do laundry, you're missing out on the fun side of our most precious commodity.

When you’ve spent more than a decade on the road, you get asked some pretty interesting questions. The one query I get most, though, is about packing: what to take, what to leave, where to put it. I’ve taken scads of trips, but every time I get back, I know I could have gone even lighter. Let’s save you some trouble and start with the basics of my lessons learned.

Are you having problems with your trip.We will give you a few tips to help you stay alive yourselves.

You've always gotten by with your high school French or Spanish overseas, but what if you're in a place so remote no one speaks anything but the local language and you haven't taken the time to learn more than "hello" and "thank you"?

If you've ever had your travel plans disrupted by a flight delayed by three hours or more, you know just how much of a headache it causes. It's possible for a passenger in this situation to seek compensation for such a delay, but airlines have historically argued with passengers about whether the flight's actual arrival time is when the wheels hit the ground, or when the aircraft doors open.