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

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

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

September is normally the time of year when Bavarians start to train for Oktoberfest, honing their celebrating tendencies and even going as far as Munich to slosh around in the … Read more

Few places beat with the same athletic pulse of San Diego, California’s southernmost beachside town and the capital of Endless Summer. Make it to the beach boardwalk in any season … Read more

Stitch five West London townhouses together and create a team including a few accomplished British designers and you’ve got one of the capital’s more exciting hotels – The Laslett in … Read more

Few pieces of real estate compare in weighty provenance to the parcel of land surrounding the public market that borders Pike Street in Seattle. As well as being graced with … Read more

By the midpoint of this decade, the model for building a hospitality business in Mexico’s Los Cabos had already been reasonably well defined. Large outposts from the world’s major hoteliers … Read more

Portland’s Chinatown is now the unlikely location of an exceptional design and engineering development, carved out in the shape of The Society Hotel, an innovative newcomer to the realm of … Read more

Completing a mental picture of Mexico’s Los Cabos filled with massive cruise ship-like hotels would be nearly entirely accurate were it not for a few hotels that recognise that “less … Read more

Only San Francisco’s most intrepid tourists will be familiar with the area surrounding Civic Center, merely blocks from the commercial heart of town and the home to major music and … Read more

Arriving at the central crossroads of Tivoli, New York in September 2017 feels a lot like giving an inspection a model village midway through its development. As a gesture of … Read more

When one of your end-of-trip objectives is to perfect your summer colour and return to Northern Europe in January in pristine form, Cape Town’s The Vineyard Hotel provides a very … Read more

Tucked away in the south-west corner of Switzerland is Whitepod, a luxury eco-camp high that’s been standing in the Valais region of the Swiss Alps since 2004. Perched at 1400m … Read more

The term “bike chalet” wouldn’t have made sense 10 years ago, at least for those who picture wooden structures laden with snow, serving a role only in the winter. Surrounded … Read more

Last weekend I completed the second iteration of Rat Race Adventure Sports’ ‘Scotland Coast to Coast’ race. This one day epic traverses 105 miles across Scotland on foot, bike and kayak.

Located in northeastern Spain near to the French border, Barcelona claims a rich history dating back to Roman times. Its strategic Mediterranean location made it a thriving trade hub and … Read more