Travel

The Fashionable Truth has just landed in the chill dawn of London's autumn. Tonight at the glorious Claridge's and then to Paris for the Bordeaux train and M. Arnault's Cheval Blanc harvest festival dinner. A...

On the Greek outlying islands it’s easy to imagine that this cradle of Western civilisation is still a paradise worthy of the gods. This is especially true of Spetses, one of the 227 inhabited Greek...

The architecture of the Kamalaya Wellness Spa and Retreat is deceptive. The resort has a rustic look with wooden furnishings under sloped thatch roofs, lotus ponds and trickling water features. Rooms...

Frequent business travellers know the pain of modern air travel: luggage restrictions, lost luggage or waiting at the baggage carousel; these nuisances can upset the most carefully planned...

Brody House, Budapest It has been over a month so I finally feel free to give up the inner secrets of the Scalpel Salon held in Budapest in March. The salon and its annual award for creative...

There was a dawn chorus at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodphur, but the birds were only bit players. The main performance was from sitar and drums, played by musicians who sat on steps beneath the wide terrace...

PENINSULA SHANGHAI As a child in England in the 1960s I had a dream of visiting Shanghai. The auteur in my head imagined a place of intense struggle, suppressed...

  Now that Cathay Pacific have two daily flights from Hong Kong to Tokyo’s Haneda airport, which is two hours closer to Ginza and Omotesando than Narita, it’s possible to have...

  In September, Louis Vuitton opened a unique maison in Singapore. It is the first store in the brand’s history to be dedicated to travel. The luggage maker’s peripatetic roots were laid down in...