Five-Star Living at Dublin’s Fitzwilliam
Opened in 1998 on St. Stephen’s Green, The Fitzwilliam Hotel is located just off Grafton Street, Dublin’s most fashionable catwalk and shopping promenade. Originally designed by Sir Terence Conran in his signature contemporary aesthetic, the five-star…
Five Good Reasons to Get to Berlin in 2015
As the city’s unofficial motto puts it, “Berlin is always becoming.” The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2014 was accompanied by citywide celebrations and global media coverage as Berliners from around the world converged on the city to…
Mustard Fans Rejoice: Dijon’s Maille Opens in New York
Founded in 1747 by Antoine Maille, the official vinegar maker at the royal court of King Louis XV, Maille is the definitive Dijon mustard. For years, American aficionados have had to travel to Europe for Maille’s signature “mustard on tap” served from an…
A Wander Through North Wales
Roughly the size of Massachusetts, Wales offers a bountiful larder of farm and sea with more than 80% of the land given over to agriculture and another 12% to woodland. With less than 3 million inhabitants, this is a country where sheep outnumber people…
Palm Springs Refreshes for 2015
For the better part of its nearly 80-year history, Palm Springs has been a fashionable desert resort: a retreat and a refuge, as acclaimed for its relaxed lifestyle as for its natural beauty. An oasis of modernist architecture, Palm Springs has become a…
The Dream Castle of Caernarfon
For those Game of Thrones fans who glimpse Caernarfon for the first time, “Winter is coming” might be the first words from their mouths. Perhaps the most famous of Wales’s 641 castles, Caernarfon was built in 1283 within the confines of a Roman fort so…
The ‘Downton Abbey’ of Wales
A country house from the early 18th century, Erddig in Wrexham offers an “Upstairs, Downstairs” experience to visitors who wander the 1,200-acre estate of a gentry family named Yorke who remained in residence for over 250 years. Alas, by the 1970s, the…
Riding the Rails through North Wales
With gleaming steam engines and summer coaches from the 1920s, as well as kitchen carriages and a restored 1894 carriage, the Welsh Highland Railway is the longest heritage rail line in Britain. From the castle at Caernarfon, the railway traverses a…