Seven wonders of the gastronomic world
What are the best restaurants? It’s a question I’m frequently asked though one I find almost impossible to answer. But I’ll say this much: …
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The real Fantasy Island
A few short years ago, Velaa Private Island in the Maldives was an uninhabited place. Now as charted in the new “Velaa: Island for…
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At home in the world at ‘Taste of Waldorf Astoria’
Sure, I love to travel, but sometimes I just like to sit back and soak it up at home. Earlier this year, I was…
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Jerusalem: City of Gardens
Known variously as the City of David, the Holy City or simply “the Golden,” Jerusalem has had many nicknames in its long history. Yet…
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Out of (South) Africa
A simple line, culled from a travel website, told me, before I knew anything else about Bushmans, that this was somewhere I wanted to…
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Cherry blossoms jubilee: D.C. hotels get makeovers
This spring, a crop of new — or newly renovated hotels — all of them with exceptional design, will make the city more inviting…
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The romantic traveler
The trouble with romance — commercialized, sanitized and wrapped in absorbent cotton for Feb. 14 — is that it’s desperately unromantic. The candlelit dinner,…
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A vacation worthy of la famiglia
Canals, boats and the possibility of awesome pizza twice a day are virtually irresistible to children, which is why — contrary to everything you…
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The Florida Keys: where it’s always a holiday
Can I out myself as a Floridaphile? I think I can. I’ve been up and down and diagonally across, from Spanish St. Augustine to neat…
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A tale of two (working) cities
If you’re looking for a great hotel for your business trip to London or Paris, now is undoubtedly the best of times. Because at…
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Indulgent Marrakech
Of all Morocco’s great cities — Tangier, Meknes, Rabat and Fez, among them — it is Marrakech rightly or wrongly that holds the traveler…
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Shopping the world
One of the many joys of traveling is shopping for clothes and bringing them back from afar. In exotic fabrics, in unfamiliar designs, in…
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Monaco, baby, is back
Weekend in Monte Carlo, darling? You bet. Monaco, which went into social if not economic decline after the death of Princess Grace 33 years…
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The Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok
Photographs by George Apostilidis. Travel, they say, broadens the mind and, in my case, unfortunately, it also broadens the waistline. Oh well, you…
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Postcards from a travel writer’s edge
What’s on my travel bucket list? Not much. That might sound odd coming from a travel writer, but while I enjoy visiting new places…
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South Florida’s blooming wetlands
Beige sand. Beige seashells. Beige buildings. Beige shorts on shockingly bare legs. Only one season: It’s called beige. The beigeness of Florida can be…
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Horse (and people) heaven
All images courtesy of the Dorchester Collection. With Easter just around the corner, the flat-racing season in England is about to begin. And…
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Ireland, rustic and regal
Photographs by Andrea Kennedy. If you’re the type to make a bucket list, standing slack-jawed in the shadow of a medieval castle should…
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Magical Mauritius
The island country of Mauritius occupies a quiet corner of the globe off the African mainland, east of Madagascar, in a part of the…
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Notes from the bush
I slept lightly that first night in the hut at the Serondella Game Lodge in South Africa. There weren’t any locks on the doors….
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