Month: June 2024

(credit: Virgin Hotels) Situated in the heart of Shoreditch, the 120-room hotel is one of the most striking buildings in London’s East End landscape. Located at 45 Curtain Road, a stone’s throw from Spitalfields Market, Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch becomes the 17th property for the wider Virgin Hotels Collection and eighth Virgin Hotels location across the
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One of Europe’s best features is the stunning diversity of its landscapes ⁠— and that extends to its magnificent islands. Whether you want to take in whitewashed buildings that cling to rocky cliffs or see the northern lights brighten the sky from a snowy isle, Europe has the perfect spot. We’ve rounded up some unique
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If it seems like every week there’s a new competition out there revealing its list of the best boozes on the planet…Well, there is. The lucrative enterprise has blossomed into a full-fledged cottage industry. And consumers, thirsty for more knowledge on how to direct their spending, are forever eager for the guidance that this industry
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Scoop up an 18th-century French town and plop it down in the middle of coastal Tamil Nadu, India, and voilà: you have Puducherry. More familiar as Pondicherry, this breezy city was under French colonial rule from the late 17th century until 1954. Although indisputably Tamil, Pondicherry still holds onto countless traces of its Gallic past, from
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While the Mexican wine industry is the oldest in the New World, dating back to the 1500s, it has only recently begun to attract international attention. In recent years, Mexico’s wines have earned medals from international competitions including the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, and in the last two decades the industry has experienced a renaissance
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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet literally wrote the book on Brittany – or at least the chapter on the region in the latest edition of Lonely Planet’s best-selling France guidebook. The culinary heritage of Brittany is unique – and unmatched anywhere else in France. After all, this northwestern region offers very few local cheeses and practically no wines (sacré
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Mayfair is anything but lacking in restaurants. Widely considered London’s swankiest locale, chefs and restaurateurs have flocked to the neighborhood for decades hoping to attract the area’s discerning clientele. The difficulty doesn’t lie in finding a good restaurant, but finding a good restaurant worth its inevitably-sizable bill (there’s a reason Mayfair is the most expensive
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Ezra Bailey Ezra Bailey | Stone | Getty Images With burnout prevalent in the workplace, some employers are considering mandatory vacation, full office shutdowns and other ways to get workaholic employees to take a break. Only a small number of employers today — 8.7% — require workers to take a minimum amount of vacation, and
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Food, history, music, sports – whatever you enjoy, Atlanta has you covered. Even better, this lively city doesn’t make you sacrifice your love of green spaces to experience all it has to offer. Nearly half of Atlanta is covered in tree canopy, so you can appreciate the perks of big-city living without missing out on
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From watching millennial silk weavers at work on 19th-century Jacquard looms in hilltop Croix-Rousse to admiring Renaissance art and architecture at the city’s Musée des Beaux-Arts, tasting Côtes du Rhône vintages with a sommelier or learning how to craft some of the city’s finest culinary dishes, exploring Lyon is all about living your very best,
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