CITY SLEEPERS High-end hotels bloomed in big cities this year, offering a variety of luxe options you’ll want to book for more than one night. SHANGHAI LUXURIOUS NODS TO THE CITY’S HISTORY AND TRADITIONS WERE THE RUNNING THEME IN THIS YEAR’S HIGH-eEND HOTEL BLOOM IN THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT. + Opened in September, the […]
Eddie Redmayne’s return as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald confirms the enduring magical powers of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter universe. It’s a unique and defined world, where wizards and monsters roam in a setting halfway between drab modernity and a vivid past that’s a jumble of medieval, Gothic and Art Deco
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Romance is a testimony to hope and the eternal. So often we try to express our love for each other––but how gorgeous it is when we can just feel it, maybe not uttering a word. Enjoy taking your loved one to this place on Lake Como, one of the world’s fairytale hotspots for amore. Speaking
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Traditional Greek fishing boats © Clare Thomson Lonely Planet Pathfinder, Clare Thomson of Suitcases and Sandcastles, spent a week exploring the tiny island of Koufonisia in the Small Cyclades, one of our 10 best places to visit in Europe. The Small Cyclades are some of the smallest islands in Greece. It’s no surprise that they’re
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Train platforms have arrived as a destination with amazing architecture to stop a passing traveler in his tracks. Now the site of flash mobs, oyster bars and urban farms, train platforms have arrived as a destination. – Katharine Sohn Designed by Jorge Colaço, 20,000 vintage azulejo tiles adorn São Bento station in Porto. Each octagonal coffer
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The 2007 comedy is set in a fictional British town – but where was it filmed? In the mashed-up world of 21st-century comedy, where every joke is a callback to childhood viewing and every plot a pastiche of unconnected genres, 2007’s Hot Fuzz stands apart, a delight on every rewatching. At the heart of its
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Hokkaido’s Hakodate to Shikoku’s Kochi Japan’s most rewarding cities are ones you never thought to visit. Discover storied castles, glittering panoramas and delicacies you won’t find anywhere else. When you think of urban Japan, you think of Tokyo—and maybe Osaka, or perhaps even Hiroshima. Regardless of the Japanese city in question, you probably imagine a
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