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Italy, Venice

Beyond San Marco: 5 Hidden Venice Neighbourhoods

Italy, Venice

Type “Things to do in Venice” into Google and the algorithm spits back the usual suspects: St. Mark’s Square, Rialto Bridge, Burano, the same roll-call of sights that already groan under the weight of day-trippers in matching sunhats. And yes, if it’s your first time…

Italy, Venice

Italy, Puglia, Family-Travel, Itineraries

Italy, But Slower: A Toddler’s Tour of Puglia

Italy, Puglia, Family-Travel, Itineraries

I used to travel to see it all. I’d land somewhere and immediately set out with a vague (okay fine, somewhat detailed) itinerary, and a completely unjustified confidence in my ability to figure things out on foot. I didn’t care how many buses it took or whether the train schedule hadn’t been updated since Mussolini…

Italy, Puglia, Family-Travel, Itineraries

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Sustainability, Italy

Venice: Is It Really Doomed to Sink Beneath the Sea?

Sustainability, Italy

Venice is having a bit of a moment. Again. Between the rising tides, the rising tempers of locals, and Jeff Bezos hosting a wedding spectacle fit for a Bond villain’s retirement party, you might be forgiven for thinking the city is more film set than functioning home. One minute, it’s supposedly slipping beneath the sea…

Sustainability, Italy

Santorini, Greece, Hotels

A Subterranean Dream: Inside Oia’s Luxury Cave Villas

Santorini, Greece, Hotels

There’s a particular kind of silence that falls when you open your door in the early hours and find yourself suspended above the sea, coffee in hand, the Aegean still inky and asleep, where the hum of anticipation for sunset hasn’t yet begun, and the only thing stirring is the steam rising from your private infinity jacuzzi…

Santorini, Greece, Hotels

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Switzerland, Trains

GoldenPass Belle Époque: How to Take Switzerland's Most Beautiful Train Journey

Switzerland, Trains

From the window of our early morning train out of Geneva, Lake Léman flashed in and out of view, the mountain peaks still veiled with mist. I was seven months pregnant, and after a week of carting my ever-growing bump around in the heat of the Côte d’Azur, I was craving a day that moved at the pace of an old film.

Switzerland, Trains