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Author / Luke J Spencer

The Place Where World War One Planes Still Fly

Wander through the quaint, old fashioned town of Rhinebeck in New York’s Hudson Valley, and you may feel as though you’ve stepped back to another era. Especially when you look up into the sky: for its quite common to see vintage airplanes circling high above all day long, the distinctive sound of old, single propeller…
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A Time Traveller’s Secret Stroll through Brooklyn Heights

For all Brooklyn’s ever growing popularity, you’ve not discovered its true virtues until you’ve taken a stroll around Brooklyn Heights. This small, historic neighbourhood is filled with block after block of picturesque old cobbled streets, over 600 pre-civil war houses and a few mansions that look like they’re come straight off the set of Gone with…

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How Pianos Built a Forgotten Utopian Village in Queens, NY

If you were to guess what the most intricate thing being made in America today is, chances are you wouldn’t imagine that it’s a piano. Almost entirely still hand made and assembled in Queens, New York after 160 years, Steinway pianos are known the world over. Lesser known, is the fact that Steinway & Sons…

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Investigating One of the Oldest Private Detective Agencies in Paris

If you were to wander around the 1er arrondissement in Paris, you might come across an intriguing, old looking green neon sign on an anonymous looking building on the Rue du Louvre. At night it captures the imagination, looking like a lot something from a film noir, saying simply “Duluc Détective”… The Duluc Détective might…

A Mad Men Era Guide to Bar Hopping in New York City

Mad Men may have departed our screens a few years ago now, but it remains beloved in the hearts of those who love all things vintage and Manhattan, but perhaps most of all, by those who love vintage Manhattan bars! For seven seasons the employees of Sterling Cooper spent a large part of their time…

A Weekend Guide to Europe’s Most Underrated City

The most exciting, up-and-coming city in Germany probably isn’t your first guess. For many years, Berlin had the reputation as the hip & happening capital of Europe. But soaring rents – as much as 70% more expensive over the past 8 years – have all but gentrified Berlin into a shadow of its former self.…

The Disappearing Membership Cafés of Provence

The village of Gordes in Provence is one of the most beautiful & charming in a part of France that’s teeming with small towns that are … well, beautiful and charming. Perched high on the slopes of the Monts de Vaucluse, Gordes is a treasure trove of narrow, winding cobbled streets, crammed with old homes…

What Kind of Town Elects a Cat as its Mayor?

Alaska is home to many wild and wonderful sights. From remote gold prospecting towns, to vast expanses of barely populated wilderness, to soaring mountains. But one of its smallest treasures is also one of its most unusual –  a town with a population of just over eight hundred, who have had a cat for their…

Inventing the “Stepford Wives” American Dream Town

The first thing to know when walking around Levittown, PA, is that it is very easy to get lost. The leafy winding streets often double back on themselves, and confusingly, the street names in the different parts of town not only all begin with the same letter, but have similar sounding, idyllic names; Shadetree Lane,…

The Secret Art Deco Apartment Hidden Inside Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is one of New York’s most treasured landmarks; a beautiful, gleaming masterpiece of Art Deco design, home to the world famous Rockettes and sold out concerts all year long. It is also however, home to one of my favourite secret places in all of Manhattan, for hidden away above the stage,…
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