Paris: the place to be as a royal in exile
For the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Paris wasn’t the hardship it might have been
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
March 17, 2023
Snow problem: getting slushed in Verbier
Gray skies and high winds up top. I pack a hip flask to take the edge off
March 14, 2023
Surviving your first winter in Idaho
Forget Florida: the Gem State is small, remote and conditions rugged individualism
March 9, 2023
The liberal rednecks of Northern California
Just outside San Francisco where red lifestyles and blue politics collide
February 27, 2023
A literary pilgrimage to Dublin
Every Dublin trip should end with drinks, live music and cheeky cigarettes with friends new and old
Underwater yoga: taking wellness to the extreme
Today’s jet-setting yoga lover is spoiled for choice
Avoiding the brash side of Amsterdam
Best to concentrate on the aspects of the city that have remained timeless for centuries
February 23, 2023
What I saw in East Palestine, Ohio
‘The distrust I’ve witnessed is shocking to me’
February 18, 2023
The earthquake that will devastate Seattle
What happened in Turkey is a sign of what’s to come in the Pacific Northwest
February 14, 2023
A year in Gaziantep before the earthquake
Those looking for the new Casablanca would not have been disappointed with this Turkish city
February 12, 2023
A love letter to Philadelphia
Philly is used to dealing with let-downs, and the Super Bowl was no different
January 25, 2023
Florida’s equestrian field of dreams
Ocala is a playground for the 1 percent
January 8, 2023
Self-preservation in Sweden and Denmark
The trip grew from my preoccupation with two Nordic lifestyle concepts currently in vogue: Swedish lagom and Danish hygge
December 20, 2022
‘Country collectors’ go to war over Ukraine
The close-knit, extreme-travel community is divided over the conflict
November 29, 2022
How to tour London like a royal
Play your cards right, and you might even sit next to a prince in a cocktail bar
November 21, 2022
Married in Meteora
Agios Stefanos is replete with God’s presence — despite the tourists
Heart and Seoul
South Korea is rising while still maintaining the cultural hallmarks of its poorer days
November 14, 2022
Wining and walking in Turin and Genoa
Turin has an easy elegance that speaks to its role as a major center of Italian industry
With the vintage car enthusiasts at Lime Rock
A usually quiet town in Connecticut finds autos roaring around the racetrack
October 26, 2022
Steins and slogan tees at the Helen Oktoberfest
The Appalachian Alpine town offers a blissful escape from midterm attack ads
October 25, 2022
A Cuban Missile Crisis spent on the Atlantic
We’ve been lost at sea ever since
October 20, 2022
In Ottawa, where junkies and technocrats collide
Canada’s liberal capital city has been besieged by drugs and disorder
October 11, 2022
A seaplane out of Manhattan
In the awfulness of LaGuardia Airport, one terminal stands out as a reminder of better days
Trapping gators in the Everglades
You cast a ‘huge-ass hook’ into the water, snag the creature, then ‘pull like a bull’
October 3, 2022
Spain’s caminos come calling
There is a haunting beauty to their desolate vistas, an intimidatingly brutal type of splendor
September 28, 2022
No one does hurricanes like Florida Man
As Ian bears down, even the state’s usual critics have been muted
September 16, 2022
An armed society is a polite society
A little ditty from Mississippi illustrates the point
August 30, 2022
From Moscow to Kyiv and back again
War and revolution have trailed me like banshees
A Joycean odyssey
In search of the Irish author’s Swiss resting place