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In defense of the overpriced club sandwich eaten in a hotel robe at an unreasonable hour. Room service at 2AM is the most honest luxury in travel, and I will not be taking questions.
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There are two ways to eat in Mykonos. The first involves a reservation you made three weeks ago, a table overlooking the water, a menu with no prices, and a bill that arrives face-down like a diagnosis. The second involves a plastic chair, a paper tablecloth, and the best meal you’ll have on the island. […]
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I timed it. Not with a watch — I’m not that precise. But I’ve been here long enough to feel it: that window between the sun deciding to set and the sky deciding to let it. Twenty-three minutes, give or take. The light goes from white to gold to rose, and everything it touches becomes […]
Every travel guide in the world will tell you to go to Atmosphere, the bar on the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa, for “the view.” They’re not wrong about the view. They’re wrong about the bar. The cocktails are hotel-lounge-at-altitude mediocre, the dress code exists to make you feel underdressed, and the minimum spend […]
I’m sitting at a corner table at Le Cinq — the three-Michelin-star restaurant at the Four Seasons George V — and the sommelier has just told me, with a straight face, that the wine I ordered is “an adventurous choice.” I think he means it’s cheap. Not cheap by normal standards. Nothing at Le Cinq […]
A woman at the table next to me just paid $38 for a smoothie called “Cosmic Alignment.” It contains mango, spirulina, ashwagandha, “activated” charcoal, and something listed on the menu as “intention.” She photographed it from four angles before taking a sip. I watched the whole thing with the same expression I imagine anthropologists wear […]
You will be offered limoncello approximately forty-seven times during a week on the Amalfi Coast. After dinner. At the hotel bar. By the man selling ceramic bottles shaped like lemons at the shop on the stairs in Positano. After lunch. Before dinner. As a nightcap. As a greeting. As a farewell. As a concept. Most […]
I haven’t checked a bag in three years. Not as a challenge, not as a flex, not because I read some minimalist packing blog that changed my life. I stopped checking bags because I watched my luggage circle a carousel in Lisbon for forty-five minutes while the taxi meter outside ran, and I decided that […]
The hostess at a restaurant in Rome once looked at me with genuine pity when I said “just one.” She glanced behind me, as if someone might materialize from the street. Then she gave me the table by the kitchen — the one they keep for people they feel sorry for. I ate a cacio […]
The restaurant had no sign. I knew this because I walked past it twice, checking the address on my phone, convinced I’d made a mistake. A narrow door between a convenience store and a stairwell leading to what appeared to be an accounting office. Tokyo does this — hides its best things in places that […]