While there may be novels that change lives, it’s enough for me that one changed my thoughts on home decor. When an interview was relocated from New York City to Prague, I thought, “I must see the glass room.”

Photos by Peter Hunt
If you are feeling arty, fly straight to Prague.
From Frank Gehry’s Dancing House (also known as Fred and Ginger House), the streets are awash with visual treats. You turn a corner and there are some weird babies with TVs for faces, by David Cerny, crawling towards you. Out on the river, there’s [...]

I am standing on the spot where the course of history changed. I am in Prague, perhaps 100 yards from Frank Gehry’s famous 1996 building, The Dancing House, but it is not modern architecture I have come to see.
Instead, I have walked into the crypt of a church you could easily stroll past and [...]

Photos by Petr Novy
We do love an obscure museum, especially one that is hard to reach yet delivers all it promises. It is unlikely you will be just passing through Jablonec nad Nisou, a small town about an hour and a half by car from Prague. However, if you love glass, you should make the [...]

Photo by Peter Hunt
They’ve been shucking oysters and stacking shellfish over ice into platters of “fruits de mer” at Brasserie Terminus Nord since 1925. This Paris brasserie is still superb and the best news, it is bang opposite the Eurostar terminal.
The chic way to travel; arrive at Gare du Nord two hours ahead of departure [...]

Story by Karen Walker
Photos by Mikhail Gherman
Three Prague Must Do’s
St Nicholas’ Church, Old Town
Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of Baroque architecture in the world yet you can almost walk past St Nicholas’s Church. It’s once you get in that the magic happens. There are frescoes, marble, gold and statues that [...]