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Momo Beach House is the most chill resort in Bohol

Momo Beach House is the most chill resort in Bohol

With only 15 rooms and the blue sea in front, Momo Beach House is for chilling and mingling with Panglao island’s locals […]

May 2, 2019 2 12
The Lannisters send their regards — from Croatia and Spain

The Lannisters send their regards — from Croatia and Spain

It feels surreal to be standing in the castle courtyard where a scene from Game of Thrones with Cersei Lannister and Little Finger was filmed a few seasons ago […]

April 17, 2019 1 3
10 things I love about El Nido’s Miniloc island

10 things I love about El Nido’s Miniloc island

One of the most Instagrammed islands in the Philippines, Miniloc was “discovered” in the 1970s by Japanese divers when they got stranded in Bacuit Bay. And who wouldn’t fall in love with the amazing waters and landscapes? […]

March 4, 2019 0 6
Cruising the Danube River on Avalon Illumination

Cruising the Danube River on Avalon Illumination

Cruising on the Danube lets you see some of Europe’s most exciting cities and the prettiest riverside towns you’ve never heard of […].

November 17, 2018 0 4
Memorable Melbourne via Cebu Pacific

Memorable Melbourne via Cebu Pacific

You only have to look to the right of Federation Square’s modern arts venue contrasting with the old railway station’s regal architecture to realize that this is a city that’s changed by time and migration but still treasures its history {…]

August 26, 2018 0 11
A scenic route of wines, truffles & rivers through the South of France

A scenic route of wines, truffles & rivers through the South of France

Taking a Scenic cruise on Burgundy’s rivers to discover its famed wines and historic chateaus […]

August 5, 2018 0 6
Midnight in Savannah’s Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in Savannah’s Garden of Good and Evil

So this is Savannah.It’s also about a murder, a book, a movie, and why we can’t really explain places that make us want to stay […]

July 5, 2018 2 3
Cathay Pacific flies cleaner, further with the new A350-1000

Cathay Pacific flies cleaner, further with the new A350-1000

Called “the future of air travel,” Cathay Pacific’s A350-1000 is the world’s newest and most modern aircraft, flying on 10 percent biofuel […]

June 24, 2018 0 5
Symphony of the Seas sails the ultimate adventure

Symphony of the Seas sails the ultimate adventure

Symphony of the Seas is the world’s biggest cruise ship, most technologically advanced and packs the most fun and adventures onboard […]

June 1, 2018 2 8
How Shangri-La Istanbul turned a tobacco warehouse into a luxury hotel

How Shangri-La Istanbul turned a tobacco warehouse into a luxury hotel

Shangri-La Istanbul is a great example of how an old, decrepit building is repurposed and turned into a luxury space […]

December 23, 2017 0 8
The weird, the beautiful & the Zen of underwater photography

The weird, the beautiful & the Zen of underwater photography

A rock star to underwater photographers, David Doubilet reveals a life shaped early in a lake, when he was an asthmatic boy of eight […]

December 15, 2017 2 6
Singapore Airlines redesigns luxury in its A380 fleet

Singapore Airlines redesigns luxury in its A380 fleet

Ten years after Singapore Airlines became the first to fly the Airbus A380 in 2007, it recently unveiled a major redesign with the hotel-like First Class Suites as the star […]

November 14, 2017 1 6
Marcel Wanders’ luminous space for Fairmont Quasar Istanbul

Marcel Wanders’ luminous space for Fairmont Quasar Istanbul

At Istanbul’s newest luxury hotel, Marcel Wanders designs a unique swimming pool deck while Wilson Associates imagines two sisters coming to the city— classic Paris and modern New York […]

October 26, 2017 8 5
Waking up to the Ottoman Empire at Çiragan Palace Kempinski

Waking up to the Ottoman Empire at Çiragan Palace Kempinski

The legendary hotel on the Bosphorous Strait that harks back to the sultans’ opulence blended with legendary Kempinski luxury […]

September 14, 2017 4 11
The subversive art & life of David Cerny

The subversive art & life of David Cerny

Meeting the Czech Republic’s enfant terrible, David Cerny, whose bizarre, sometimes offensive sculptures have put Prague on the map of modern art […]

August 29, 2017 0 6
Diving with the turtles of Apo Island

Diving with the turtles of Apo Island

Let me begin by saying that the turtles of Apo Island are as awesome as you’ve seen in pictures and the experience of swimming with them a thousand times more […]

July 25, 2017 4 12
Conrad Manila’s presidential suite is inspired by super yachts

Conrad Manila’s presidential suite is inspired by super yachts

How do you design the presidential suite of a hotel that’s shaped like a ship? Like the interiors of a luxury super yacht of course! The best part of this 1,000-square-meter suite? Stunning views of Manila Bay […]

June 5, 2017 3 8
Chasing Shakespeare—from Stratford to Verona

Chasing Shakespeare—from Stratford to Verona

This was the Bard’s bedroom, this was his desk! Did he write Twelfth Night with a quill? Were his fingers darkened black by the ink? You have to understand…I’ve been a fan of Shakespeare my entire life […]

February 26, 2017 2 3
The Manila Hotel: Built for kings, queens, heads of state & history

The Manila Hotel: Built for kings, queens, heads of state & history

It occupies one of the most historic addresses in the country: One Rizal Park, Manila, a stone’s throw away from beloved Luneta and Manila Bay. It’s one of very few places from where you can see the water on one side and the beautiful parts of a reckless city on the other […]

February 24, 2017 4 6
A portrait of Ethiopia

A portrait of Ethiopia

It’s true. Ethiopia is the “Land of Origin,” where humankind and civilization started — and just to perk us up a little, where coffee comes from […]

August 29, 2016 2 7
El Nido’s ‘Island of the Sun’

El Nido’s ‘Island of the Sun’

From the top of a hill in Pangulasian Resort, you can see the sunrise and sunset, its 750-meter stretch of white-sand beach and the clear waters of El Nido. All those “best in the world” lists got it right. El Nido is paradise […]

August 1, 2016 2 9
Raffles Istanbul: Asian hospitality & European timelessness

Raffles Istanbul: Asian hospitality & European timelessness

He brought the pink balloons out on the balcony in the cold November air. “Make a wish and then let them go,” he told me. And so I did. We watched them float, carried by the autumn wind into Istanbul’s skies, until we couldn’t see them anymore […]

July 28, 2016 1 6
Coron: The best of Palawan’s thousand treasures

Coron: The best of Palawan’s thousand treasures

The gods of our islands and legends are very cruel. But what they take away with a curse and punishment they give back with an embarrassment of riches. In the case of Palawan, they gave it 1,870 islands and a 2,000-kilometer coastline […]

July 13, 2016 9 11
Postcards from Petra

Postcards from Petra

It’s a spectacular sight of rose-colored cliffs rising to meet the skies, and on the sandstone is carved The Treasury, imposing itself onto your senses. I almost cry seeing this.[…]

May 16, 2016 2 7
Big love from Bohol’s Amorita Resort

Big love from Bohol’s Amorita Resort

From sea to table, that’s how Amorita (“small love in Spanish) opened its new tapas bar Tomar. The tapas and pintxos were heavenly! […]

May 11, 2016 2 7
Cappadocia & other Turkish delights

Cappadocia & other Turkish delights

Gliding over Cappadocia is everything that is and more than the pictures you’ve seen on someone else’s vacation […]

March 7, 2016 1 6
Blissful in Bodrum

Blissful in Bodrum

This is the Bodrum we find ourselves in — at the crossroads of its hedonism and conscience, and these two roads would quickly merge because Turkish people are kind and compassionate. And the sun is always lovely on this peninsula […]

February 15, 2016 1 1
A week in Provence

A week in Provence

There is no one else around in this lavender field. In this most gorgeous of hours, in this wildly colorful swath of land in Provence, I want to tell Gautier: This is why we came here.

January 4, 2016 9 2
Falling in love with Japan, one prefecture at a time

Falling in love with Japan, one prefecture at a time

Perhaps this the reason why sakura season is so revered in Japan: it lasts only a week, and when the week is over, they begin to fall — never to be seen again until the following year […]

July 14, 2015 16 2
Oh Canadian Rockies, how beautiful you are!

Oh Canadian Rockies, how beautiful you are!

A road trip through Alberta’s spectacular national parks — Banff, Jasper and Waterton — and only one city (Calgary). I feel like a fish out of water […]

June 24, 2015 18 3
Searching for Stalin’s Boots in Budapest

Searching for Stalin’s Boots in Budapest

Discovering Budapest through its classical art and contemporary museums, the latter a remembrance of its Cold War past. […]

June 8, 2015 14
Santorini without the crowds

Santorini without the crowds

For a few days, Santorini was mine. It was like being in on a secret that made me smile — and no one had an idea why. […]

June 3, 2015 20 3
Even in miniature, France is larger than life

Even in miniature, France is larger than life

Why would I want to see a miniature Paris when I am already here…in life-size Paris, in real France? Because miniatures are so damn cute, that’s why! […]

May 27, 2015 20 3
The Paris I love

The Paris I love

Like Hemingway said of Paris, “And then there was the bad weather,” at the beginning of A Moveable Feast, the […]

March 29, 2015 20 4
Istanbul: A story told in two continents

Istanbul: A story told in two continents

I didn’t fall in love with Istanbul until I was about to leave it. And by then, I was so completely enamored of the place that I would come back two months later […]

March 17, 2015 19 4
Chasing Kafka in Prague

Chasing Kafka in Prague

Kafla’s “landscape” was Prague, his hometown. And in the Jewish Quarter, on Dusni Street, he spent most of his time wandering about and getting inspired and writing his stories […]

January 1, 2015 23 3
Two GPS and still lost in Poland

Two GPS and still lost in Poland

My friend Gautier is on the phone with Andrej, whose flat in Krakow we are renting for the night. He’s […]

January 1, 2015 22 3
Stopover Asia: 5 cities, 5 hours each

Stopover Asia: 5 cities, 5 hours each

What to do when you’re on a long layover in these five Asian cities? Locals guide us through Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok […]

August 10, 2015 18 3

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