That’s Pedernales Falls State Park in a nutshell – except the pinch won’t wake you up because this dreamscape is gloriously real, just waiting for you about an hour west of Austin near Johnson City, ...

Sue-meg State Park isn’t just another pretty face along California’s coastline – it’s the kind of place that makes you question why you ever thought paradise required a passport.

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, offering early humans a path to cross over via southward island-hopping routes.