Destinations

The Golden Eagle Silk Road Express crosses five countries, 3,862 kilometres, and six centuries of history. It is the most ambitious luxury rail departure of 2026.

This is the summer Venice has been building toward. Five-euro day-tripper fees, two new palace hotels, and an Art Biennale carrying its late curator’s poetic vision. Don’t miss it. There …

Destination weddings are up, micro-weddings are up, multi-day celebrations are up, and couples are, quite sensibly, deciding that if you’re going to go to all the trouble, you might as …

A long-read essay on Venice’s unlikely reinvention; and what three hotel brands arriving in one season actually means There is a specific kind of exhaustion that only Venice produces. It …

Bill & Coo has spent two decades quietly making the case that Mykonos was always better at dawn than midnight. There’s a version of Mykonos that involves sparkler bottles and …

Ibiza has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) reinventing itself for years now. The clubs are still there, obviously, and the sunsets remain as aggressively beautiful as ever. But …

The island’s only Michelin-starred restaurant sits inside The Club Hotel & Spa in St Helier, and is run by Head Chef Tom Earnshaw, who was named the Michelin Guide’s 2026 …

Look, Barcelona has never really needed a reason to be fabulous; it’s been quietly (and loudly) doing its thing since the Romans rocked up and called it Barcino in the …

What follows are the fifteen I would book without a second thought: a mix of iconic palaces, extraordinary boutiques, and one or two addresses so singular they barely need a …

I have a theory about truly exceptional hotels: you know you’re in one the moment you stop thinking about where you are and simply start being there. That shift happened …