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A Wedding in the Sahara: Camels at Sunset, Bread in the Ashes and Dancing Until the Stars Came Out

Past the last paved road in Morocco, the dunes were set for a wedding — guests arriving by camel, bread…

Sixteen cities, three countries, one summer. The 2026 World Cup was the first tournament spread across a whole continent, which…

I began this tournament as a neutral. I ended it having worn the colours of five different countries, been sincerely…

Somewhere around week three I stopped pretending. I was not travelling around North America for the football. I was travelling…

Here is the thing nobody selling you a World Cup package will tell you: the best cultural experience of the…

There is a specific moment at a stadium that nothing prepares you for. You come up the concourse stairs, still…

For five weeks this summer, three countries stopped being three countries. Between 11 June and 19 July 2026, forty-eight teams…

I have now been to Moroccan weddings in the mountains, on the coast, and in a Casablanca apartment block where…

I thought I knew what a religious procession was. Then I stood in a packed Seville street at two in…

You do not simply watch flamenco. You feel it in your chest. In a tiny candlelit tablao in Seville, maybe…