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You can tell a lot about a place by the food it serves you. Not just how it tastes but how it’s seasoned, how it’s presented, how it makes you feel while you’re eating it. For many Black travellers, food is never just fuel. It’s memory. It’s comfort. It’s culture. It’s the quickest way to tell whether a space gets you  or not. You can stay in the nicest hotel, sit by the cleanest pool, and still feel… off. And most of the time, when something feels off, it’s because the food

Every year, as December approaches, the energy shifts. Flights sell out. Group chats light up. Instagram fills with countdowns. For many in the diaspora, Detty December  isn’t just a holiday, it’s a pilgrimage. A return home to party until the new year, to reconnect, to remember who you are outside of survival mode. There is excitement in going back home that’s hard to explain unless you’ve lived abroad. The music hits different. The jokes land faster. The nights feel longer.

If you’ve ever stepped into a hotel lobby, a restaurant, or an airport lounge and taken a mental census of people who share your resemblance, then what follows will make perfect sense. For most black people, it comes naturally. It’s not paranoia; it’s awareness. It’s not something that’s taught; it’s learned. It’s survival. And for a long time, traveling has also included that thinking: Am I going to be able to feel comfortable here? Am I going to be watched? Am I going to be

Something small yet powerful is happening within the international Black community. More and more Blacks have begun to consider or undertake travel visits to the African continent or moves there, or in some way connect with the land that, in the past, their own ancestors were forced to leave. It is not guided by trends or by aesthetics. It is guided by something much more profound than this: To feel free, to feel safe, to feel whole. “Africa, therefore, can be considered a ki

When it comes to African and Black travel, choosing where to go in Europe is often about far more than beauty or budget. For many of us, it’s about comfort, safety, cultural awareness, and the ability to fully exhale  in a space that welcomes us without question. True luxury isn’t just marble lobbies and Michelin-starred meals. It’s the freedom to move through the world without having to explain yourself—your presence, your success, or your right to enjoy the best that life h