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The Romeow Cat Bistrot, for the Coolest Cats in Town

I‘m not a huge cat person (dogs are more my sort of cuddle fix), but I couldn’t help but be utterly charmed by the latest European cat café to open in bella Roma… It’s not your average cat café, where you imagine the armchairs to smell a little musty. No, Romeow Cat Bistrot (gotta love…

My Somerset Goldilocks Getaway

This is me just doing a little bit of day-dreaming and today I’ve landed in Somerset, England, where I play the part of Goldilocks, who discovers an inviting countryside cottage through the trees, looks through a window, peeps through the keyhole, lifts the latch and proceeds to curl up in every room in the house… You’ve arrived…

Borrow an East London Time Capsule House

At number 4 Princelet Street in East London, there is an 18th century yellow brick Georgian time capsule behind the Old Spitalfields Market. The double fronted merchant’s house, conserved in its original condition from top to bottom, is one of the last of the original houses to be built on the street where dozens of…

Big Empty Italian Castles For Sale

There is an Italian real estate agency that currently has 70 castles up for sale on its books. That’s an unusually high amount of castles, wouldn’t you say? Each more breathtaking than the last, I spent the morning scrolling through 59 pages of deserted castles, villas and historic properties for sale on the Florence-based realtor’s website,…

Vintage Hotel For Sale, straight out of a Wes Anderson Film Set

On the off chance that anyone out there reading might be considering getting into the hotel business, I thought this little piece of local real estate news was worth sharing. Sent to me by a reader, I was immediately enchanted by the Opinicon Resort on the shores of Rideau Canal at Chaffey’s Lock in Ontario,…

A Prime Minister’s Abandoned Beirut Mansion

There’s one type of home you don’t really expect to find crumbling in an abandoned and decaying state– such as the ones that belonged to heads of state or government, for example. But when a country tears itself to shreds in a civil war, I suppose we can begin to understand how the upkeep of an exiled…

The Luxury Pirate Ship Hotel where Jack Sparrow can’t Ruin Cocktail Hour

I would probably walk the plank if it meant getting myself aboard Alila Purnama. Fortunately, aboard this handcrafted ship, entertainment is less about sword fights and more about mojitos served with a view of the Indian Ocean. Puff Daddy can have his shiny show-off yacht, I want to travel the seas like Francis Drake (or at least like Francis…

NYC’s Secret Japanese Kitchen

Inside a nondescript Brooklyn building, there’s a door to an imaginary world with beautiful random objects, edible flowers, bicycles … and a secret Japanese restaurant. We’re not talking about just another social dining club and a have-a-go chef, but a seriously gifted host whose level of cooking is being whispered about as a talent which far surpasses anything…

Then & Now: The Rolling Stones’ French Villa of Debauchery

In the Spring of 1971, Keith Richards began renting a villa on the Côte d’Azur for $2,500 a month. The British government was threatening to confiscate the bands’ funds if they did not leave the country by April 5th of that year as part of the Labour government’s punitive 93% tax on high earners. The Rolling…

These 10 Quirky Paris Dream Homes are For Sale so let’s Snoop Around

Every now and again, I find myself wandering over to the Christie’s real estate website for a good snoop through their Paris files. It’s a completely delusional exercise, but I do it anyway, staring wide-eyed at the dream homes, all the while obliviously dropping croissant flakes over my keyboard. I find it helps to quench my curiosity for what lies behind…

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