The founder of cult-favorite aromatherapy brand vitruvi advises on the most effective essential oil remedies for common travel-induced anxieties.
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Tribal Hotel, Granada: The Hoteliers Who Went From the City That Never Sleeps to a Sleepy City in Central America
Take a photo tour of Tribal Hotel, a bohemian enclave in the heart of Granada, Nicaragua, and learn how these NYC restaurateurs went from the city that never sleeps to hoteliers in a sleepy city in Central America.
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The Instagram Effect: Has Social Media Reshaped Your Relationship With Travel?
The not-so-subtle shift of technology from accessory to centerpiece has captivated the world. In an age where our phones possess more power than the computers NASA used in the first moon landing and are kept permanently within arm’s reach, it’s…
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What The Japanese Concept of Wabi-Sabi Can Teach Us About Travel
Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese philosophy that embraces modesty, imperfection, and simplicity in everyday life can teach us a lot about embracing the imperfections in travel, too.
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The Art of Slow Travel With Godai Escapes
The word ‘travel‘ implies movement and distance. It conjures impressions of crowded airports, bus and train stations, long lines and landmarks overflowing with transient visitors. As tourists, we have a natural tendency to over-pack our precious holiday time, racing around to…
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Travel Like An Artist With Dorothy Shain
Dorothy Shain has such a warm way of speaking and a soft intentional focus, that a conversation with her can make you feel like you’re the artwork on display – in a really, really good way. It’s likely this same…
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Exploring Cartagena’s ‘Coolest’ Neighborhood As An Outsider
We had spent so much time being romanced by the flower laden balconies and the saturated street colours within the 400-year-old, walled city of Cartagena, Colombia, that we had almost forgotten there was anywhere else to explore. I had read that Getsemani was worth visiting. It was a neighbourhood just outside the walled city with a dark and complicated past as a former host to drug trades and sex trafficking. With Colombia’s modern political shift towards stability, greater economic security, a
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Postcards from Phi Phi Island, Thailand, By Photographer Kris Martyn
Elsewhere’s “Postcards From…” series features photography submissions by our readers that seek to capture the energy, spirit, landscape, culture or humanity of a particular destination. Here, we enter the lens of Australian photographer Kris Martyn on his journey through Phi…
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Assouline’s Ibiza Bohemia Reflects a Revival on the Rise
I’ve never been to Ibiza. I’ve only wished to visit. When I close my eyes, I can trace the back of my eyelids to form the shape of its rugged coastline. I can hear the sound of the waves break…
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Meet the Parisian Hoteliers Running a Luxury Riad in Marrakech
Light hits the Riad Jardin Secret with a kind of ephemeral magic. It filters through the open roof terrace down to the first-floor lobby, illuminating the lush tropical garden growing as tall as the rafters allow, right up to the…
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Check In: The London Hotel, West Hollywood at Beverly Hills
Some hotels were made for escaping in, others for sleeping in, and a few for sneaking around in. In Los Angeles, hotels are are meant to be seen in. The outlook is different here in the city of angels. Not only are hotels marketing to the city’s influx of…
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