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Travel Inspiration: Essential Tuscany & Unexpected Umbria

Head for the hills... of Tuscany and Umbria, that is. Where la dolce vita is the only way to go. Where the reds pour freely, and your taste buds hardly have time to recover from your last great meal. Where medieval towers rocket into blue skies. Where the cathedrals are blessedly ancient, and the latest [...]

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Travel Inspiration: Ravishing Italian Lakes

Land in Milan and be whisked off to a magical part of Italy (which is saying quite a lot given how fabulous all of Italy is). You are driven to your hotel on Lake Como. The villages that ring Italy’s great lakes have drawn composers, writers, royalty, and a famously ambitious hotel magnate like moths [...]

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Travel Inspiration: Moorish to Modern Spain

In Spain, experience life as it was meant to be lived. Catch contagious music on a Madrid street. Savor Gaudí’s outrageous flourishes on a walk through Barcelona. Stroll ancient gardens whose leaves drape around a Muslim princess’ summer palace. Tour the Prado (enough said). Add a dash of flamenco, plenty of spice, and a generous [...]

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Travel Inspiration: Japan Revealed

Shrines, treasures, geishas and gardens: The inscrutability is real. Japan is not so much one culture as many faces of an ancient culture. Shinto spins a yarn about Jimmu, grandson of the sun goddess. Emperors are pushed aside by mighty shoguns. Zen gardens lead us to rethink our aesthetics. Futuristic bullet trains speed us to [...]