Sitting at a waterfront table at the Nambawan Café in Port Vila, Vanuatu, I gazed out to sea and coveted the sight before me. Blue skies, even deeper blue sea, and the tallest, most elegant sailing ship I’d ever laid eyes on. Worth a cool USD $100 million, it was the floating home of [...]

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A good travel companion can go a long, long way: an engaging book to read on a long flight; a buddy in shotgun who stays awake the entire drive; a loyal parrot for the dangerous journey to the East Indies in search of spices and tea. Add to that list Votre Vu [...]

This Copenhagen guide is written by a native who has lived in New York for the past ten years, meaning, this is more a story of re-locating and not so much the do’s and don’ts of visiting. I know this city and grew up here and yet my point of references seem to be [...]

The section between Cusco and Lima is called The Gringo Trail. I questioned Randy, our trip leader, about the name and he gave me a very simple answer, “That is where all the gringos go.” Peru is the most touristy of all the countries and gringos go to Puno to see Lake Titicaca, [...]

San Francisco…when you get there, do all the usual suspects: Golden Gate Bridge, fresh crab in Fisherman’s Wharf, shopping on Maiden Lane, burritos in the Mission District, “water pipes” in Upper Haight.
Then do some other things that you might have never done here before.
1. Stay at the newly re-opened Hotel Vertigo. It’s in the midst [...]

I grew up in the LA. I went to all the clubs and the Hollywood spots and beaches well before I could legally drive. So, it’s hard to have a new experience whenever I visit. I don’t see the novelty of palm tress and paparazzi, of shopping and freeways. I see a place recycled over [...]

Granada, some say named by invading Arabs in the 8th century, is a university town in Andalusia. It is also the birthplace of the beautiful Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was shot here by the Nationalist Militia in 1936.
Perched above the old town, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, stands the Alhambra. The [...]

When your little hotel becomes a favorite of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Calder and Braque who all spent time here over their long summers in the South of France, it’s the makings of something pretty special. Short on funds, these masters and others, painted for their supper, donating original works by the bundle. Thus the atmosphere [...]

Istanbul in summer is a city teaming with both sensory delights and horrors. Humidity is high and walking through the streets on a hot summer’s day can be unbearable but as soon as you hit the coast the cool breezes off the Bosphorus are a sweet relief and sipping tea onboard a ferry is a [...]

Words by Kira Poskanzer
Photos by Jono Rotman
Summer in New York City certainly has its charms: concerts in the park, dining in the garden at the back of the restaurant, dark and cool movie theaters. But sometimes, you just have to get out of town. We decided to forgo the standard Manhattan summer jaunt [...]