Travelling from the UK to either one of these countries in November and plan to spend my birthday there, the plan is to spend probably 3 weeks in either and cover as much attractions, activities and things to explore and see as much as I can, and also to celebrate. Both are bucket list places that I've always wanted to go to and having a hard time narrowing down to which one I should go for.

Any suggestions/advice would be massively appreciated!

Want to see both the mtns and beach of Montenegro

What do yall think are the best cities / countries to visit in the Middle East. I’ve only been to Saudi Arabia (Jeddah only) and the UAE so far. Open to anything except Iran, Iraq and Syria.

I plan to visite Lofoten islands and Tromso in september. Airbnb and Booking are very expensive, and I can’t find another website to pay cheaper accommodations.

Hello, I'd like your help and suggestions please. I'd like to go somewhere picturesque for a long weekend in November.

Criteria

• Not Spain, Portugal, Greece or Italy
• Easy to get to from London
• Preferably a walkable city style break (but doesn't have to be a major city)
• I want to look at pretty buildings, scenery, nature if possible.

I've considered Vienna but not completely convinced. Please share your ideas! Thanks so much.

A rule came into force on 2 August that I've been following, and I'm curious whether anyone here has seen it in the wild yet.

Under the EU AI Act, AI-generated images resembling real places count as deepfakes and require a visible label when published. That includes an AI image of an actual hotel room, or a beach view. Companies can't argue it's creative work when it's advertising.

Ordinary editing stays legal, lighting, color, tidying a background. The test is whether it would make you believe something inauthentic.

I'm sceptical it changes much in practice. It only binds companies serving EU customers. Enforcement is left to each country, so it'll be inconsistent for a while. And the underlying data gets stripped whenever an image is screenshotted or re-uploaded, which is constantly on booking sites.

What I'm actually wondering: has anyone here booked somewhere and been fairly sure the photos were AI-generated rather than just heavily edited? I've seen listings where the room geometry doesn't quite work, a window in an impossible place, a bathroom that couldn't physically fit. Curious whether others have noticed the same, and whether you've found reliable tells.

For context, I research tourism technology, so this is partly professional curiosity.

My wife and I were out with come friends outside of Hua Hin, Thailand. I some how managed to drop my wife's I-phone off the pier into 12-15 ft of brown water. One of our friends said don't worry, the fisherman will find it. What? Anyway a fisherman showed up with a swimming mask and snorkel, and began to drive in the dark water. After several attempts he swam around the pier and came back with a 25-30 boat with a bright light above it (it was a squid boat). So after a few more attempts, phone under water for at least 1 hr, he pops out of the water with the phone. The phone still has the screen saver (picture of my wife and dog), and its still working. Two things ...I phones are amazing and the Thai locals are super great people!

Love this subreddit! My wife and I are going to Sardinia for 9 days and 8 nights in September. My wife will be 4 months pregnant so we will be just relaxing, beaching and eating (likely no hiking this trip). We will be renting a car.

We are flying direct to Olbia from JFK and the plan is to stay in Cala Gonone for three nights, Maddalena for 4 nights and our last night in Olbia.

In Cala Gonone, we are hoping to eat at Sa Cuchina, Zio Pedrillo, and 4 Mori...what other restaurants or cafes should we try? Any particular beaches to hit? What about a day trip?

For the rest of the trip we were planning on going to La Maddalena, do you have any recommendations for this leg? We were also thinking about stopping in San Teodoro for one night on the drive up from Cala Gonone to Maddalena.

Any insight on this potential itinerary and places to eat would be very helpful. TIA :)