Just Back From
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Just Back From… Eastern Sicily
When traveling through eastern Sicily, it helps to know a guy. With an assist from knowledgeable locals, Yolanda returns to Taormina, where a turn down almost any side street reveals the gems behind the tour buses and luxury brands.
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Just Back From… Round Top, Texas
Designers Leanne Ford and Grace Mitchell have been coming to Round Top—home to the famed semi-annual Antiques Fair—for years, and share where to stay, the can’t-miss stalls, margarita spots to refuel, and how to get your haul home.
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Just Back From…Bequia
Looking for an adventure over New Year’s, Hannah Bronfman and her family headed to the low-key island of Bequia. The kind of place where kids can run around on the beach while parents supervise from a distance during long, toes-in-the-sand lunches, and happy hour means rum and Cokes set to a soundtrack of soca music.
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Just Back From… Lech, Austria
Tucked into Austria’s Arlberg region (the birthplace of modern-day skiing), Lech is a quietly elegant Tyrolean village where generations-old ski culture, serious gastronomy and traditional tastes take precedence over flash and frenzy.
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Just Back From… Seoul
For fashion-world consultant Emilie Meinadier, a trip to visit friends in Seoul with her 13-year-old, Demon Hunters-obsessed daughter became deep dive into K-Culture: royal palaces, contemporary art temples, beauty clinics, next-level shopping, and incredible food (Korean BBQ and shabu-shabu to bibimbap and night-markets).
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Just Back From… Sifnos
Métier founder Melissa Morris was craving something relaxed, beachy, and easygoing—and after much research, landed on Sifnos as the Goldilocks choice.
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Just Back From… Normandy
The twin towns of Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast have long lured Parisians for their buzzy restaurants, Neo-Norman architecture, and sandy beaches sprinkled with candy-colored umbrellas. Maddy Odom made the easy trip from Paris for a few laid-back days of shell-scavenging and sandcastle-building, waterfront meals of fresh oysters, (plus a detour to Giverny!)…
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Venice and Vicenza with Kids
For his daughter’s school break, Martins Pilens decided to revisit one of his favorite places through their eyes. With thrilling water taxi rides, nightcaps of gelato (for the kids) and Americanos (for the parents), and a picnic in the garden of a Palladian villa, the trip was equally fun for all.
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Just Back From… Cape Town
The newly revamped Cape Grace on the V&A Waterfront was home base for our photo director Linda Denahan, who spent a few days exploring the city’s vibrant cultural scene, before heading to Babylonstoren in Franschhoek for an inspiring farm stay—with its amazing healing garden, rolling vineyards and way more buffalos/chickens/donkeys than guests.