#NGTRadar: Travel Lately

The Radar–the best of the travel blogosphere–is a regular feature on Intelligent Travel every other Wednesday.

You can play, too. Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTravel and tag your favorite travel stories #NGTRadar to help us find the crème de la crème on the Web.

Here are our latest picks:

• Feeling like you want to sail away? Better think twice before packing your bags for these seven islands around the world–each with a history more star-crossed and cursed than the next. @atlasobscura 
• You may not find Newry on many tourist itineraries these days, but this ancient market town in Northern Ireland has long been a “crossroads for cultures and faiths.” Find out more about one of the oldest towns on the Emerald Isle. @perceptivetrav 
• Travel can challenge us. It can inspire us. It can help us see the world–and our place in it–in a new way. Travel can also help us let go–of expectations that aren’t our own, of preoccupations with time, of the illusion of control. @umarket

Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTravel and tag your favorite travel stories from the Web #NGTRadar. Then check back every other Wednesday for our Travel Lately roundup.