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Category / Don’t Be A Tourist

Off-the-Grid Hotel du Jour: Aire de Bardenas

Some hotels are just a little different from the rest. A futuristic Star Wars set meets zen-like luxury getaway; it’s not your average hotel recommendation. The hotel Aire de Bardenas melts into the alien desert landscape of the Bardenas Reales natural reserve, three kilometres from the city of Navarre, Spain. Architects Mónica Rivera and Emiliano López…

The Town that is Literally Living Under a Rock

People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of volcanos or the precariously placed monasteries in the Himalayan mountains. Here’s one that looks like it might have been hit by a meteor and residents just decided to carry on as usual… Welcome to the town of Setenil…

Please, Come into my Magical Manhattan Home

So there’s this guy that lives in a storefront in East Village on 7th. With the door always ajar and Frank Sinatra playing on a record player from inside, the place appears to be a vintage shop selling all sorts of oddities and collectables. But Anthony Pisano doesn’t sell anything. He just likes to meet…

The Green Hippie Beach Bus

Travel notes from Greece I found something neat-o today and thought I’d show you… Hidden in the trees behind an empty beach was this big old abandoned Mercedes bus. It looks like it was a bit of a hippie camping spot back in the day. Inside there’s not much to write home about, it was…

Tagging along with an Underground NYC Urban Explorer

Feel as if you’re tagging along right behind urban historian and photographer, Steve Duncan on his nocturnal exploration of the underbelly of New York. It’s exciting and tense as Steve guides us through the unknown while desperately trying to avoid getting caught: “It’s very worrisome to get caught doing something like this because a lot of…

Night at the Museum of Awesomeness, Istanbul

This weekend, Nessy was invited on a private night-time tour of the Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Istanbul. They call it a museum of industrialist legacy, I call it the museum of awesomeness; an absolute essential on every traveler’ s list of must-see places to see in the ancient Turkish city… As the pinkish sun…

Paris, like it is in the Movies

Attention Parisphiles! There’s a new smartphone application on the block ready to take you on a cinematic journey through the city you love. Cinemacity is a new website and free application that allows users to rediscover Paris through iconic movie scenes filmed around the city. You can view film clips and screen stills pinpointed by…

Montmartre: Then & Now

On a Sunday ride with my outdated pedal-starter moped, aimlessly putt-putting through the streets of Montmartre, I came across a peculiar building, unlike any of the others I had seen that day. It looked as if it were hundreds of years old … Standing at the intersection of Rue Marcadet and Rue du Mont Cenis, it…

My Little Surf Shack

The outdoor tub had me at hello. Then there was the artist studio, the airy guest house and the sculpture garden of abandoned trucks. And suddenly, I’m interested in surfing. Welcome to the home of artist David Bromley in Byron Bay, surfing capital of Australia, recently visited and photographed by the Design Files. With his…

How to Lose Yourself in Paris

A few weeks ago, through my endless network of Paris links, I stumbled upon a heavenly website called “Et si on se promenait à Paris“, translation: And what if we walked around Paris? Browsing through this captivating blog, it soon becomes very clear that the editor and photographer, Mademoiselle Audrey F, knows that there’s taking…

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