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The best time to visit Provence, I always advise when asked, is in the spring before the scorching heat and summer crowds. I have been spending time in the south of France since the early 1990s. Provence was fashionable in those days. Peter Mayle’s massively successful book, A Year in Provence, inspired thousands to pull up stakes
The snow is deep and crisp and even, the sky bluer than blue, and beneath my Black Crow skis the soft hiss of fresh powder. I’m rehearsing my excuses as I carve my wiggly way down a well-upholstered piste. “I’ve gone skiing by mistake,” I cry out on the pure mountain air. I’m almost embarrassed
The human spirit is incredibly resilient really. Even in the depth of our concern over the Israeli-American war against Iran, the worry about what might come next, we can still find time to feel a warm and comforting sense of schadenfreude over the large number of British women with stapled-on lips who are cowering in
A Real Pain was one of my favorite films of recent years, a tragicomic exploration of family, history, place and identity featuring two Americans in Poland – specifically in Warsaw and Lublin. My wife was also quite smitten – with Lublin as much as the film – and on the back of this began planning a weekend in the eastern Polish
Look out from the balcony of your room at Le Sirenuse and you’ll see the trio of rocks jutting out of the Tyrrhenian Sea that gave the hotel, one of the last true greats in the world, its name. The three jagged islets form an archipelago, which is said by the Greeks to have been
As a general rule, once a city erects turnstiles to tourist attractions which were once free to visit, it is time to go elsewhere. Never more so than in the case of Rome. Last week the Italian capital introduced a €2 charge to visit the Trevi Fountain. Tight-fisted tourists like me will still be able to
But what would you do if there was no risk of being caught? Some people want to kill
Exploring the charms of Chucktown
Villa Treville retains the director’s sense of chutzpah and style
It is a place of dreams and deceptions
Glamping in the foothills of the iconic volcano that won’t let you out of her sight
The stars of the show were the sea lions
At home with the leader of the KKK
I’d never killed one before. I’d hunted other animals: deer, rabbits, doves, ducks, turkeys and so on
Whistler Blackcomb’s world-class slopes are shaped by Indigenous stories
Finding my ikigai on Japan’s frozen edges
California’s High Speed Rail is only the latest blue-state infrastructure failure
City chic to Highlands retreat
Like so many, I first learned of the place because of Alexandra Tolstoy
How Kerala is redefining responsible tourism
How ‘the better city’ has gone from bad to worse
In Europe, I’ve felt most tired, hungry and poor – yet also most alive
Here in the west, many don’t want a trade war with the United States. They want in
Underneath its gray, foreboding exterior, it is a joyful and exciting city
In the Himalayas, physicians, doctors and therapists worked in concert to understand the root cause of my insomnia
Aspen and Vail have a lot to celebrate
Laos is now an economic vassal of China, a protectorate, or feudal satellite firmly in Beijing’s orbit
My father would have loved this new spa life. I’m not sure about my mother. But I did
From the Khoisan to springbok herds to British soldiers, many have passed without leaving a mark