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Vingt et Un in Paris: The Ultimate Girls’ Getaway
Where better to celebrate one’s 21st than in Paris? The question almost answers itself. The French capital is, quite simply, the ultimate girls’ getaway; celebratory, stylish, and overflowing with charm at every cobblestoned corner. As May flowers continue to bloom across the city’s window boxes and public gardens, Paris truly comes into its own in…
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Bayous, Birdsong, and Bald Cypress
Taking Refuge in the Cypress-Tupelo Swamp | Travel With Spirit Growing up on the wide-open plains of Montana, I first learned about swamps in elementary school. In my imagination, they were shadowy places filled with drifting mist, lurking alligators and the sort of restless spirits that belonged in Southern folklore. To a child raised beneath…
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Falling in love with Porto
Perched above the Douro, Porto is not so much a destination as an immersion, a place where graceful bridges, hand-painted tiles, and the scent of warm pastry conspire to make you never want to leave. Portugal’s second city has been quietly earning its superlatives for years. In 2025, the World Travel Awards named it Europe’s…
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Off The Beaten Track
The imposing Portpatrick Hotel stands, almost benevolently, above the tiny fishing village of Portpatrick, Scotland’s hidden gem on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway. It’s probably as far west as you can go in southern Scotland, and nearly as far south as you can go in western Scotland. Travelling to Portpatrick involves a…
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Calvados – The common denominator
Calvados – that rich, elegant spirit, crafted in Normandy since 1553, was the common denominator. For a group of six like-minded gentlemen from East Sussex, it was, in our opinion, a grand excuse to form the unofficial Calvados Club. Our mutual passion for this French nectar, the most famous of apple brandies, was the driving…
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Heaven is a Place on Earth
Heaven is a place on earth – and it is called Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu. It’s just a thirty-minute seaplane from the Maldivian airport of Malé, and I have never experienced a place that embodies such complete peace and ultimate luxury. Departing London Gatwick on a wet and miserable November evening, all worries, cares, and…
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
MARK TWAIN
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Amsterdam – City of Light and Water
Where 17th-century canal houses glow amber in the spring sunshine, masterpieces hang in golden rooms, and a city of barely a million people feels like the whole world – in miniature. There is a particular quality of light in Amsterdam that painters have been chasing for four centuries. It comes off the canals, refracted and…
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Madeira – Five Days, One Tent
From mist-filled forests and vertiginous trails to cliff-edge campsites and cloud-level sunrises, Ines Luque uncovers some of Madeira’s wildest landscapes — and its quietest moments. Camping in Madeira is not the obvious choice. This Atlantic island is better known for cruise ships and cliff-hugging hotels than for tents pitched beneath the stars. But for travellers…
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Burning boats, bonfires and fireworks
One of the great pleasures of travel is stumbling upon traditions that seem to have slipped through a crack in time. Those customs that appear to have little place in the modern world, yet are fiercely cherished by those who keep them alive. Even in the ever-polished United Kingdom, we still revel in the eccentric,…
