T Magazine: Letter From France | The Paris Hotel Scene Gets a Glitzy New Player

Photo The soon-to-open Peninsula Paris Hotel offers both a rich cultural heritage and over-the-top luxury offerings for guests.Credit At the new Peninsula Paris Hotel, not far from the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, workers are frantically...

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T Magazine: A Buzzy New Shanghai Restaurant Designed by Shigeru Ban

Amid Shanghai's futuristic mass of gleaming glass and rising towers, an airy, understated two-story new restaurant called Calypso offers a welcome reprieve from the shiny and new. A collaboration between the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese...

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In Transit Blog: Sweetening the Cruise Experience

Photo One of the chocolate confections that will be on offer as part of Princess Cruises' Chocolate Journeys program.Credit Princess Cruises Traveling on a Princess Cruises ship just became a little sweeter with the company's new Chocolate Journeys...

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T Magazine: A Ride Across America | In Idaho, Two Sisters Get a ‘Truck Farm’ Off the Ground

Over the course of eight weeks, Ben Towill, the co-owner of the Fat Radish, and the photographer Patrick Dougherty are biking 4,500 miles across the U.S. to talk to strangers about food. Each week, they'll file a dispatch for T about their discoveries....

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In Transit Blog: Now Serving Comfortable and Casual

Photo Dish at Fera at Claridge's in London, where diners in jeans are now welcome.Credit Claridge's Luxury hotels usually have formal restaurants to match their elegant ambience, but some high-end properties are creating more relaxed and casual dining...

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In Transit Blog: In Wake of Disasters, an Air Travel F.A.Q.

Photo The last Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 leaving Kuala Lumpur. The carrier has retired the flight number.Credit Olivia Harris/Reuters In the aftermath of the shooting of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 last week and the rocket strike near Ben-Gurion...

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In Transit Blog: The Brando, Both a Resort and a Lab

Photo At the Brando, a turtle finds creature comforts.Credit Pacific Beachcomber Marlon Brando first visited Tetiaroa, a 12-island atoll 30 miles north of Tahiti, while filming "Mutiny on the Bounty." He bought it five years later, and briefly ran...

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T Magazine: A Ride Across America | In Idaho, Two Sisters Get a ‘Truck Farm’ Off the Ground

Over the course of eight weeks, Ben Towill, the co-owner of the Fat Radish, and the photographer Patrick Dougherty are biking 4,500 miles across the U.S. to talk to strangers about food. Each week, they'll file a dispatch for T about their discoveries....

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In Transit Blog: One Room for Many Guests

Photo NYAH (Not Your Average Hotel) in Key West, Fla.Credit Paul Stoppi/NYAHotels For those who like traveling in groups but want an alternative to the cookie-cutter hotel room with rollaway beds, NYAH (Not Your Average Hotel) in Key...

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In Transit Blog: In Argentina, Cycles and Cameras

Photo Cuesta del Obispo Pass, Argentina.Credit Ossian Lindholm The 25-year-old bike touring company Ciclismo Classico has created a spinoff that focuses on seeing as much as doing. The charter destination for a series of photography tours — called...

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In Transit Blog: British Souvenirs Made (One at a Time) in Britain

Photo Interior of the New Craftsman, a recently opened fine craft shop in the Mayfair section of London.Credit The New Craftsman If a double-decker bus paperweight or a William and Kate mug aren't your kind of mementos, consider the "the Real British...

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T Magazine: On Capri, a Chic New Shop Takes a Stand Against Sameness

Photo Most of the items at Cabana were sourced or designed specifically for the store.Credit "This whole business was against mass prestige," explains Helen White in the intimate space of Cabana, her newly opened shop on Capri. In a world in which...

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T Magazine: An Elegant New Boutique Hotel in French-Colonial Pondicherry, India

Photo La Villa, an intimate, six-bedroom hotel, was carved out of a 19th-century home.Credit India's sliver of the Francophonie, the region where French is still the official language, occupies a grid of tree-lined boulevards just south of...

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T Magazine: Eataly-Style Food Halls Are Taking Over America

Ever since Todd English opened his upscale food court and market at the Plaza Hotel in the summer of 2010, the notion of combining communal dining space and artisan grocery shopping has caught fire in New York. English's endeavor was soon followed by...

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In Transit Blog: Love Cruises on Dry Land

Photo SinglesCruise.com guests on a Caribbean cruise in February 2014.Credit SinglesCruise.com. SinglesCruise.com – a travel agency known for turning ships into potential love boats with cocktail parties, dance lessons and karaoke nights – is taking...

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T Magazine: Where to Eat, Drink, Shop and Stay in Provincetown This Summer

To get to Provincetown, Mass., you need time and patience, which are easy things to allot yourself when you remember the town's quaint colonial cape homes, its miles of grassy dunes and the way the light plays off of Cape Cod Bay, making it wink and...

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T Magazine: Eataly-Style Food Halls Are Taking Over America

Ever since Todd English opened his upscale food court and market at the Plaza Hotel in the summer of 2010, the notion of combining communal dining space and artisan grocery shopping has caught fire in New York. English's endeavor was soon followed by...

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In Transit Blog: First for the Press, Now for a Rest

Photo The Volkshotel opened last month in Amsterdam.Credit Leonor von Salisch Billing itself as "a place to rest, or not sleep at all," Amsterdam's revved-up Volkshotel opened last month in the former headquarters of the Volkskrant, one of the country's...

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In Transit Blog: Walkabout: Malaysia Airlines Offers Refunds

Photo A Malaysia Airlines plane prepares for landing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 21. The carrier said it would offer refunds to customers who want to cancel their tickets.Credit Mohd Rasfan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images...

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In Transit Blog: Airbnb Unveils Warm Logo as It Gets Cool Legal Eye

Photo Airbnb's new logo, whose design users can customize.Credit Airbnb, the online lodging site that has recently provoked the ire of local governments in Barcelona, San Francisco and New York City, is out to win the public's affection with its...

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In Transit Blog: Bilbo Baggins Slept Here

Photo A stop along the way in a tour in New Zealand exploring the world of Tolkien characters.Credit Hobbiton Movie Set Tours It's dinner and a movie … set. The Hobbiton Movie Set in New Zealand, as seen in the screen adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord...

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In Transit Blog: Lights, Camera, Action . . . Vacation!

Photo The Rome Cavalieri, which holds tours of places in Rome relevant to the film "La Grande Bellezza."Credit Rome Cavalieri Rome's tourists are venerated and degraded in "La Grande Bellezza" ("The Great Beauty"), a film by the Italian...

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In Transit Blog: Bilbo Baggins Slept Here

Photo A stop along the way in a tour in New Zealand exploring the world of Tolkien characters.Credit Hobbiton Movie Set Tours It's dinner and a movie … set. The Hobbiton Movie Set in New Zealand, as seen in the screen adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord...

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In Transit Blog: Airbnb Unveils Warm Logo as It Gets Cool Legal Eye

Photo Airbnb's new logo, whose design users can customize.Credit Airbnb, the online lodging site that has recently provoked the ire of local governments in Barcelona, San Francisco and New York City, is out to win the public's affection with its...

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T Magazine: Accommodations | A Buzzy Hotel Oasis in West Hollywood

In West Hollywood, the San Vicente Inn is gradually being transformed by the boutique hotelier Jeff Klein, who is garnering lots of attention for turning the historically gay, seedy hotel into a clean and chic place for the young and beautiful to...

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In Transit Blog: Lights, Camera, Action . . . Vacation!

Photo The Rome Cavalieri, which holds tours of places in Rome relevant to the film "La Grande Bellezza."Credit Rome Cavalieri Rome's tourists are venerated and degraded in "La Grande Bellezza" ("The Great Beauty"), a film by the Italian...

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In Transit Blog: In the Tetons, a Camp for Runners

Photo Running in Jackson Hole, Wyo.Credit Eric Orten Eric Orton, the motivational coach made famous in Christopher McDougall's book "Born to Run" and the author of "The Cool Impossible," will help athletes hit their strides in his new running camp...

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T Magazine: Accommodations | A Buzzy Hotel Oasis in West Hollywood

In West Hollywood, the San Vicente Inn is gradually being transformed by the boutique hotelier Jeff Klein, who is garnering lots of attention for turning the historically gay, seedy hotel into a clean and chic place for the young and beautiful to...

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In Transit Blog: Airbnb Unveils Warm Logo as It Gets Cool Legal Eye

Photo Airbnb's new logo, whose design users can customize.Credit Airbnb, the online lodging site that has recently provoked the ire of local governments in Barcelona, San Francisco and New York City, is out to win the public's affection with its...

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In Transit Blog: Bilbo Baggins Slept Here

Photo A stop along the way in a tour in New Zealand exploring the world of Tolkien characters.Credit Hobbiton Movie Set Tours It's dinner and a movie … set. The Hobbiton Movie Set in New Zealand, as seen in the screen adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord...

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In Transit Blog: By the Bees on My Chinny Chin Chin

Photo Justin Hiemstra won a trophy at last year's competition for being the crowd's favorite.Credit Clovermead Apiaries Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder. At least, that's the case in Aylmer, Ontario, on July 25, when Clovermead Apiaries hosts...

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In Transit Blog: South Africa Cycling, With Cultural Side Trips

Photo Table Mountain in South Africa.Credit VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations' new tour, Cycling South Africa: Cape Town and the Garden Route, includes more than sightseeing. Also on the itinerary are a visit...

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