Britain’s industrial past owes much to the centrally located city of Sheffield, renowned for its durable steel on the east side of the Peak District. Like Pittsburgh in the U.S., … Read more

Nearly two centuries since the rise of the UK’s first industrial city, Manchester provides a gateway for a variety of contrasting edges. Traversing the city means crossing the lines of … Read more

Located at 75 miles of San Francisco between Silicon Valley and John Steinbeck’s Salinas is Santa Cruz. The city pays tribute to its name as “Holy Cross” as a crossroads, … Read more

In centre of Liverpool, the prosperity of the port city’s industrial past is in view. To the south nearest the tidal Mersey River is the looming pink sandstone Cathedral, faced … Read more

One of Zimbabwe’s authentic, post-colonial architectural projects has been Lodge at the Ancient City, completed in the 1990s to emulate the brickwork and dimensions of the nearby ruins, known as … Read more

Every now and again, restoration projects transform a place enough to convert it into a destination and draw a crowd. The Pig hotels have done that with their renovations of … Read more

I can’t be the first to person to crave better sports facilities at airports. Even the shortest workout can be a constructive way to kill time ahead of departure, or … Read more

The accelerating pace of South Africa’s largest city is easily noticed within a few minutes of ambling around Melrose and Rosebank, two neighbourhoods that form a peanut-shaped enclave south of … Read more

Had Romeo ever been an ambitious athlete, his banishment to Mantua and beyond the endurance facilities of Verona would have represented a double curse. Though the quiet town on the … Read more

Those not quite sure of status of England’s most European-facing coast can find some certainty along the shoreline 60 miles south of London. Towns like Brighton have become escape routes … Read more

Located 40 miles north of Washington, D.C., Baltimore has been undergoing a slow renaissance as one of the legacy cities of the Eastern seaboard. The town’s coal heritage and port … Read more

Despite the turbulence of U.S. politics, a hotel half a mile north of Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill remains defiant, serving up an unrivalled range of businesses at a central venue. … Read more

Drifting south from Munich by train is a meditation in itself. As the Deutsche Bahn slides through the suburbs of the Bavarian capital, a verdant carpet opens up. First the … Read more

Science nerds and outdoor enthusiasts can both appreciate Geneva, a city that on the one hand embraces the timelessness of its alpine location, while on the other embraces the major … Read more

The Mash Inn closed in January 2023. A new venue is planned by owner Nick Mash – due to open Summer 2023. The bucolic setting of The Mash Inn is … Read more

The lure of any retreat into nature is normally one of unhindered recreation, set aside from the fumes and traffic of the city. Yet to escape to the African bush … Read more

Venturing inland from coastal Philadelphia to Pittsburgh is its kind of Pennsylvanian pilgrimage, a routing through which the passages of the industrialisation of the United States became fully realised. At … Read more

Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz is hardly a place for the self-conscious, so wrapped in glass that you’ll need to be looking your best when walking its streets. In recent decades, the … Read more

The location of Windhoek’s international airport sets itself well away from the city, especially considering the stretch of undeveloped land between the Namibian capital and the runway. This forces most … Read more

For all its credentials as a trendy European city, Berlin can be an exhausting place to spend time. Keeping up with the locals requires an unrelenting appetite for late nights … Read more