Author: Carly Shea
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Dispatch from Romania
Drawn by visions of Europe’s last old-growth forests and Transylvania’s traditional Saxon towns, Carly Shea followed her curiosity from Bucharest’s faded Beaux-Arts grandeur and frescoed churches to a valley of patchwork farms, where the King of England keeps a guesthouse and you never know who might show up.
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Pharmacy Find: Propolis Spray
This tiny bottle from one of Vienna’s most charming pharmacies is travel-friendly and plays both offense and defense—helping you recover faster when you’re sick and giving your immune system a boost to prevent that from happening in the first place.
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The Travel Poncho
Thousands of years ago ponchos were created for life on the move, centuries later, the silhouette has circled the globe, reimagined by designers everywhere from New York to Tibet, all with the same enduring design that’s the easiest thing to throw over your shoulder at 30,000 feet.
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Packing with Lauren Ho
It seems like Lauren Ho, the travel director of Wallpaper*, practically lives on the road, bouncing from one far-flung corner of the globe to another. But she does, in fact, have an address in London, where she spends just enough time to swap out the contents of her suitcase between trips to Greenland or Uzbekistan.
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Rosewood Mandarina
An easy getaway in the Riviera Nayarit, Rosewood’s newest Mexican outpost is well suited for adventure or unwinding, with design and experiences grounded in the region’s Indigenous art and healing traditions.
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The Travel Wrap
Nobody wants to be burdened by a bulky extra layer just for the freezing plane. We rounded up the uber-versatile travel scarf-wrap-hybrids that don’t take up any space in your carry-on, work double-duty as an extra blanket on a red-eye and a chic accessory for dinner.
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Packing with Zach Weiss
Nobody moves through the world quite like international man of mystery Zach Weiss, luckily, we caught him in one place long enough to share his hacks for shipping things ahead, and avoiding cowboy faux pas at the airport.
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Agatha Relota Luczo
Furtuna Skin founder Agatha Relota Luczo shares inspirations from her family’s Sicilian organic estate, beauty tips picked up from her modeling days and her favorite locavore spots in Sicily.
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Postcard from… Maine’s Midcoast
Spend a late summer weekend on Deer Isle along Maine’s Midcoast and you’ll see why the state earned its slogan, “the way life should be.” With artist studios at every turn, an endlessly craggy, untouched coastline, terrible cell service, and humble seafood shacks, Carly Shea finds the draw is its unapologetically salt-of-the-earth spirit.