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 […]
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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 […].
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cappadocia & other Turkish delights
Gliding over Cappadocia is everything that is and more than the pictures you’ve seen on someone else’s vacation […]
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 […]
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.
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. […]
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. […]
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! […]
The Paris I love
Like Hemingway said of Paris, “And then there was the bad weather,” at the beginning of A Moveable Feast, the […]
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 […]
A journalist’s Warsaw
I have been in a mall in Warsaw for two hours and I haven’t seen a single Asian, either as […]
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 […]
How I found my muse in Florence
Of all the nine muses, all I really needed was one — to recover, to rewrite, to reclaim the contents of my missing flash drive. But really, it was to recover myself […]
In. f*cking. Bruges.
I waited for years to get to Bruges after watching the dark comedy In Bruges. The film is beautifully written, […]
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 […]
A girl named Penny in Delphi
The Temple of Apollo at the most famous of Greece’s sacred sites, the Oracle of Delphi. (Photos by @iamtanyalara) Delphi […]
