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A Weeklong Bike Trip Through Tuscany
A devoted solo traveler and skeptic of group trips, Tim Marvin joins Butterfield & Robinson on a guided biking and walking journey through Tuscany. He reflects on the strange intimacy of traveling as a group, having doors opened you’d never find on your own, all without schlepping a thing.
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Black Books
Opinionated city guides from us and our friends, locals and insiders
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Paris Family Black Book
Lifelong Parisian and mother of two, Voyageurs du Monde creative director Faustine Poidevin-Gros maps the city at a child’s scale—hidden gardens and ice cream parlors, small museums that hold their attention, plus the practical intel that makes it all work.
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New York City Family Black Book
From the secret subway station beneath City Hall to the Met’s kid-sized period rooms, old-school toy shops and children’s bookstores, and the date night spots worth calling the babysitter for.
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Buenos Aires Black Book
Buenos Aires can feel like a lot at first: grand yet gritty, European flair in a distinctly Latin setting, a thriving creative culture, proud culinary traditions, nights that start late and end later…To navigate the shifting energy, we asked 16 insiders to share the code to porteño culture.
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Travel Planners
You asked, we answered: what you need to know to plan your travels
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Our Safari Travel Planner
We turned to our most trusted safari experts to answer your questions (and ours), from how to catch the Great Migration without the crowds to the best bush-to-beach pairings, and their picks for the top lodges and camps—whether you’re traveling with kids, a big group, chasing great food, design, birdlife, gorillas, or the most insane…
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Turkey Travel Planner
Our network of local experts and creatives pointed us to hidden antiquities, an emerging wine scene, healing thermal pools once visited by Cleopatra, best routes for a gulet trip, and storybook towns on the Black Sea… and shared insider intel on the best ways to see the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, the beach towns with…
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Caribbean Island Travel Planner
You asked, we answered! Sweet cottages on islands you’ve never heard of, hotels that grow all their own ingredients, and the places where Slim Aarons photographed (or look like he could have!)… there’s somewhere in the Caribbean you’ll really love. We mined our experts for their insider favorites and tactics for the best islands to…
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Lists
Personal favorites near and far from us and our well-traveled friends
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The Antwerp List
Small in scale but outsized in influence, Antwerp has long been a center of art, design, and fashion—from the Flemish Masters to the Antwerp Six. Today, that legacy plays out in a city where 16th-century guild houses and avant-garde architecture coexist seamlessly, and new waves of creatives always keep things on the cutting edge of…
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The Nashville List
Sometimes it feels like everyone is moving to Nashville, and for good reason. With a lower cost of living than the coasts, it’s drawn a steady influx of designers, chefs, musicians, and makers who see it as a place where a creative life still feels possible. So we asked a group of well-connected insiders to…
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City & Country: Melbourne
Melbourne has all the makings of a great urban getaway, but part of its appeal lies just beyond the city limits, where a few hours in nearly any direction leads you to an entirely different landscape: mineral springs, vineyard-dotted coastlines, dramatic beaches, or alpine scenery and old gold-rush towns. To help map both the city…
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Dispatches
Our “Just back from” journals from places near and far
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A Weeklong Bike Trip Through Tuscany
A devoted solo traveler and skeptic of group trips, Tim Marvin joins Butterfield & Robinson on a guided biking and walking journey through Tuscany. He reflects on the strange intimacy of traveling as a group, having doors opened you’d never find on your own, all without schlepping a thing.
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Road Trip: Munich to Marseille
Pretty Hotels founder Robert Kittel maps out the ultimate European road trip—winding through the Alps, Austria’s Bregenzerwald, the lakes of northern Italy, and down the Ligurian coast into Provence.
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Dispatch from Empúries
Drawn by years of whispered recommendations, Alexander Lobrano headed to the Costa Brava to stay at Hostal Empúries, a century-old seaside hotel built for archaeologists excavating the nearby Greco-Roman ruins, and gently modernized in the years since without losing its Catalan soul.
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Guest Books
Some of our favorite hotels and what we loved about them
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The Connaught, London
The most quietly clubby and genuinely welcoming of Mayfair’s legendary hotels, with not one but three great bars.
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Orient Express Venezia, Venice
Right in the heart of charming Cannareggio, the brand new Orient Express Venezia occupies an immaculately restored 15th-century palazzo, with enchantment hiding behind every corner, embodying the true meaning of La Serenissima.
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The Newt in Somerset, UK
The Newt in Somerset is centered around a restored Georgian manor within an 800-acre estate in southwest England—encompassing more than 30 acres of formal gardens, extensive woodlands, farmland, apple orchard and even an ancient Roman villa. With endless outdoor activities and a stellar spa, it hits all the notes of an English countryside fantasy.
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Postcard From…
Field notes from summertime travels
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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.
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Postcard from… Wisconsin’s North Woods
In Wisconsin’s North Woods, Minocqua is pure summer nostalgia—lake swims, water-ski shows, square dancing, and fudge shops straight out of another era. Photographer Sophie Elgort has been coming back for 12 seasons and finds that its low-key appeal never gets old.
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Postcard from… Chania, Crete
Hello from Chania’s Old Town—a warren of neoclassical mansions, Ottoman domes, and flower-draped Cretan houses surrounding a stunning Venetian harbor.
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