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Bath, the Royal Crescent, an Abbey That Shaped Every Coronation Since, and Why You Need More Than a Day I stood at the Royal Crescent and felt time fold. I was sort of hoping I’d fall through time a la Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser! (That’s an Outlander reference for those of you who’ve never felt […]

On traveling light, traveling well, and a makeup artist who finally talked some sense into me. I was checking into the Corinthia in London when I saw them: five black Rimowa trunks, moving in procession across the lobby like a minor military operation. A couple – unhurried, immaculate, apparently unbothered by the logistics their luggage […]

At some point in a well-traveled life, the beautiful hotel starts to feel like a very comfortable version of the same thing. You’ve been to Europe. You’ve done the tours. You’ve stood in front of the landmarks and felt the appropriate amount of awe. And then you’ve gone home and wondered if there’s a version […]

Bermuda can feel, at first glance, almost impossibly self-contained. Turquoise water, white roofs, old forts, ships moving slowly across the horizon. It has the quality of a place that has always looked exactly like this, that arrived fully formed and has simply been maintained ever since. That impression is wrong, and interestingly so. Bermuda is […]

Bermuda is so visually composed, pale stones, clean lines, a kind of restrained beauty, that it’s easy to move through it without resistance. Everything sits in order. Everything holds its shape. The museum disrupts that ease. There was a moment when I stopped reading and had to go back. I needed to make sure I’d […]

Before Bermuda was ever sold as a place of rest, sailors were actively trying to avoid it. They called it the Isles of the Devil — and not without reason. The reefs were unforgiving, the wrecks were frequent, and strange cries echoed across the island at night. (Seabirds, most likely. But try telling that to […]

There’s a version of Bermuda most people recognize immediately. British. Orderly. Naval. A little bit romantic. Pink sand, pastel houses, the faint echo of a colonial blueprint that somehow… held. It’s not wrong. It’s just not the whole picture. An Atlantic Story That Didn’t Begin with Britain Before the English ever set foot here, Bermuda […]

There are trips you remember for where you went and what you did. And then there are trips you remember by moments that quietly rewire how you experience the world. My transatlantic crossing was all I had hoped for and more. Despite my transgressive hope that the connection to the world and the internet wouldn’t […]

People ask me all the time what the one thing they shouldn’t miss in Paris is. My answer is always the same, and it always disappoints them a little. Paris is about pace, and pace alone is what determines whether you come home restored or just… tired in a different city. Paris rewards the unhurried. […]

There’s a version of luxury travel that looks exactly right on the surface. The suite is beautiful, the champagne is cold, the view is everything the photos promised. And then there’s what happens before any of that. The calls that get returned, the waitlists that move, the small adjustments that never make it onto an […]