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An Ode to the “Red Carpet” Express Train

They rolled out the red carpet every night for customers boarding the train, which is how that popular phrase we all know first came into use. The 20th Century Limited streamlined train made its debut in 1902, and was soon advertised as “The Most Famous Train in the World“, travelling overnight between Grand Central Station and  LaSalle…

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All Aboard the International Express, New York City

You can go to Paris for beauty school, and the Philippines for lunch. You can find your dream Diwali dress and a 200lb Ganesh statue on one block, then put your feet up at one of the best Chinese food emporiums in the world. The glory of New York has always been its diversity, but…

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Don’t Be a Tourist in Scotland: The MessyNessy Road Trip Guide

Scotland is the place you choose when the idea of another summer spent doing the same damn thing as everyone else starts to lose its appeal. It’s the place that you choose when you realise Scotland has landscapes that look like they’re from another planet and that you quite like the idea of escaping to another, very beautiful…

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A Cozy Weekend Guide to the Cotswolds

On a whim, as weekends are best planned, we hopped over the English channel to conquer the Cotwolds (and as many pubs as we could possibly fit inside of 48 hours). All winter, I’ve been longing to revisit the English countryside, tuck into a Beef Wellington with a pint of ale beside the roaring fireplace of a…

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Daughter Revives her Father’s Sleeping Chateau, Achieves Absolute Paradise on Earth

I‘ve just returned from a weekend in the middle of nowhere, France, staying in an 11th century chateau with better modern art and design than any major museum I’d ever reluctantly queued up for. And a peculiar thing happened when I got home after 48 blissful hours away. At 10 o’clock on a Sunday evening, I suddenly began re-decorating. In the midst of carefully re-arranging…

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Vintage Pocket Guides to Syria & Beyond for the WW II American Soldier

As someone who writes a guide about the city of Paris and searches for off-beat travel, I can relate to the language of pocket guides. I guess you could say it’s kinda my thing. But what if I wasn’t writing for the leisurely wanderer? What if instead, I was writing for a young, newly-enlisted soldier headed off to war…

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A Guide to Falling in Love with Old Town Panama

“I could live here”, I said like a broken record roaming the streets of Casco Viejo, Panama’s old town. It can be your Buena Vista social club, an open air gallery of street art, a time capsule of French colonial architecture or a living, crumbling museum of rich Latin American culture and history. It is the very…

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The Secret City on the Peloponnese Rock

It just looks like a big old dry rock, doesn’t it? No visible signs of humanity on its barren landscape. Impressive, but not much to it. We should probably just keep going…. Drive along the coast of the mainland, through the small port village of “new” Monemvasia, and yep– it still looks like a giant…

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My Brooklyn Bronco B&B

It’s a (concrete) jungle out there when it comes to finding the perfect place to rest your head at the end of an action-packed day in New York City. Are you going to choose from the long list of twenty-story plaza hotels where every room is identical, or are you in search of something unique and off-beat? What I’m…

Inside the Replica of the Titanic, Set to Sail in 2022

There is no vessel that has captured the world’s imagination quite like the Titanic. The “unsinkable” four-funnelled ship of the White Star Line that sunk beneath the ice cold waters of the Atlantic in 1912, is one of the 20th century’s great dramas. So would you step aboard a resurrection of the ill-fated Titanic? The concept of a…
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