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A 2-Day Philadelphia Arts-and-Food-Focused Itinerary
Philly has long punched above its weight with its deep bench of museums and galleries and fiercely local food. New Yorker Kira von Eichel made the two-hour trip for a culture-packed two days.
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Black Books
Opinionated city guides from us and our friends, locals and insiders
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Zurich Black Book
Zurich may run like clockwork, but beneath all that Swiss polish and precision lies a looser, more eccentric side, the same spirit that made the city the birthplace of Dadaism and a longtime haven for the arts.
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The Cotswolds Black Book
There’s a reason the Cotswolds have become shorthand for English country charm—but beyond the postcard perfection, there’s a vibrant daily energy that continues to draw transplants from London.
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Our Rome Black Book 2.0
We’ve got our restaurants on repeat (and what’s open on Sundays), plus aperitivo and cocktail spots that we and our Roman friends love. We also culled our favorite old-world hotels and the design-y new openings, the best shopping streets, as well as low-key galleries and museums—so everyone in your group will leave happy!
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Travel Planners
You asked, we answered: what you need to know to plan your travels
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Turkey Travel Planner
Our network of local experts and creatives pointed us to hidden antiquities, an emerging wine scene, healing thermal pools once visited by Cleopatra, best routes for a gulet trip, and storybook towns on the Black Sea… and shared insider intel on the best ways to see the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, the beach towns with…
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Caribbean Island Travel Planner
You asked, we answered! Sweet cottages on islands you’ve never heard of, hotels that grow all their own ingredients, and the places where Slim Aarons photographed (or look like he could have!)… there’s somewhere in the Caribbean you’ll really love. We mined our experts for their insider favorites and tactics for the best islands to…
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Rajasthan Travel Planner
Our band of locals and frequent travelers demystify how to do this magical, maximalist corner of Northwestern India and its color-coded cities. From opulent palace hotels to stylish heritage homes and refined tented camps; lunch on the lawn alongside cheeky peacocks, dinner in candlelit stepwells, and drinks in ornate, candy-hued bars. Driving detours to see…
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Lists
Personal favorites near and far from us and our well-traveled friends
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City & Country: Los Angeles
LA contains multitudes, but it’s also a city that practically begs you to get in the car and keep on driving. In our latest City & Country edition, we asked our LA friends—photographers, architects, designers, writers and winemakers—to share their favorite local go-tos and the nearby escapes they love most.
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The Old-World Netherlands List
For Autumn Sonata founder Lilli Elias, the Netherlands is a living cabinet of curiosities, where traces of antiquity, from ornate canal houses to shops that feel like time capsules, quietly exist in plain sight.
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The Connemara List
Maria Murphy and Lorna Kissane share their favorite routes and tips for exploring the Great Wild Way: seaweed baths and secret coastal hikes, pubs serving seafood chowder and Guinness, artisan shops with knitwear and baskets, and even an island you can only reach at low tide, where horses race along the beach.
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Dispatches
Our “Just back from” journals from places near and far
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A 2-Day Philadelphia Arts-and-Food-Focused Itinerary
Philly has long punched above its weight with its deep bench of museums and galleries and fiercely local food. New Yorker Kira von Eichel made the two-hour trip for a culture-packed two days.
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Dispatch from Romania
Drawn by visions of Europe’s last old-growth forests and Transylvania’s traditional Saxon towns, Carly Shea followed her curiosity from Bucharest’s faded Beaux-Arts grandeur and frescoed churches to a valley of patchwork farms, where the King of England keeps a guesthouse and you never know who might show up.
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Dispatch from Lake Constance
At the crossroads of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Lake Constance is a storybook landscape of medieval towns, monastery islands, and vineyards along the water’s edge—all set against a backdrop of snow-dusted Alps.
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Guest Books
Some of our favorite hotels and what we loved about them
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Tourists Welcome, North Adams, Massachusetts
A former roadside motor lodge turned into a design-forward yet low-key retreat in the Berkshires.
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Origins Lodge, Costa Rica
Origins Lodge is a boutique eco-lodge in northern Costa Rica where barefoot luxury meets the wild. It’s a place where jungle immersion, sustainable living, and exceptional dining converge to create a stay that feels both grounding and indulgent.
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Postcard From…
Field notes from summertime travels
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Postcard from… Maine’s Midcoast
Spend a late summer weekend on Deer Isle along Maine’s Midcoast and you’ll see why the state earned its slogan, “the way life should be.” With artist studios at every turn, an endlessly craggy, untouched coastline, terrible cell service, and humble seafood shacks, Carly Shea finds the draw is its unapologetically salt-of-the-earth spirit.
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Postcard from… Wisconsin’s North Woods
In Wisconsin’s North Woods, Minocqua is pure summer nostalgia—lake swims, water-ski shows, square dancing, and fudge shops straight out of another era. Photographer Sophie Elgort has been coming back for 12 seasons and finds that its low-key appeal never gets old.
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Postcard from… Chania, Crete
Hello from Chania’s Old Town—a warren of neoclassical mansions, Ottoman domes, and flower-draped Cretan houses surrounding a stunning Venetian harbor.
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