The majesty of Siena’s Palio
The city’s horse race is as mad as it is old
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Monday
A far out weekend at the Vegas Sphere
Dead shows, whether Grateful or & Company, bring a bunch of disparate people together
Old texts and Bacon’s Castle: a walk through Virginia history
What Bacon’s Castle looks like inside and out has about it the undeniable strangeness of the past
Thursday
Falling in love with Montana
After ten days in Montana, New York City’s Dimes Square was an assault on the senses
The vision behind Woolsery
What happens when a Silicon Valley tycoon decides to revive a down-on-its-luck English village?
Rwanda to Uganda: a cross-border quest
Tracking mountain gorillas with my dad
Monday
The mysterious appeal of the Maldives
The scenery itself is utterly surreal
Hotel hopping in Rome
I researched five of the very best hotels, resolving to uncover their secrets — as long as they had air conditioning
Cycling and sleeping in wine country
The Hungry Cyclist Lodge is neither a B&B nor a gîte
Thursday
Why New York is a city built on the written word
To have been born there and live there all your life? It is hard to imagine any author having a greater privilege
Unplugging in the Western Ghats
No coffee, no booze, no news and no shoes at Dharana Wellness Retreat
A tale of two safaris
Why you should pair the Maasai Mara’s iconic savannah-scapes with Kenya’s Northern Frontier
Going ham in Andalusia
I didn’t think it was possible to eat all day, but when the food is this good and meticulously chosen, it is
Monday
Rewilding the world
The movement to bring back wildlife and nature is gaining steam
A mystery on Mount Everest
A century on, the outcome of George Mallory and Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine’s tragic ascent still looms large over the world’s highest mountain
Paris: a gold-medal minibreak
As the Olympic Games descend on the French capital this July, the contest that really matters for this sports-shy travel writer is where to stay
You know when you’ve been ‘Peru’d’
A South American adventure
Wednesday
Loving Las Vegas
Food tastes so much better with jetlag
On D-Day at eighty
All the sadness of lost youth hovers over Normandy
A terrible tale of a French village
With the eightieth anniversary of the Oradour massacre this summer, the descendants of the victims are making sure they are not forgotten