At Large: Maria Shollenbarger
Intelligence, counsel and opinions from the long-time travel editor of the FT's HTSI magazine.
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Pricing the sublime (opens the original)
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Two things happened this weekend which became entwined in my head. On Friday, I had a delightful gift, courtesy of my friend and top fixer, Corinna Turati, who organised a private viewing of the just-restored Bardi Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Croce, here in Florence. On Saturday, the FT published this article, about how over-touristed places across the world are beginning to strategise ways to impose a cost on the privilege of access. It’s a very good read on a topic that’s much in the at
The other California Coast (opens the original)
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Poor Big Sur. We have two fires currently burning across about 40,000 acres of forest south of my mom and dad’s house in Carmel. All the places we hold dear — Nepenthe, Deetjen’s, Post Ranch Inn, Tas… Read more
Why I'm (still) bullish on Genoa. (opens the original)
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I don’t think I come by the kind of bragging I am about to engage in naturally, but if any platform feels increasingly like the right one for tooting one’s own horn, it’s good old getting-louder-ever… Read more
Is Sumba going off...? (opens the original)
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I was on Sumba last week to visit a friend on his farm. It has been a while since I rusticated in Southeast Asia. Not rusticating like Oh, look at all the stars or Gosh it’s quiet out there. Rusticating like getting up at three in the morning to have a wee in your outdoor bathroom and having a tree frog the size of your hand jump ONTO YOUR FACE, then repairing back to your bed to listen to a pair of nearly foot-long grandfather geckos courting in the rafters right above your mosquito net. But mo
Portugal, Puglia, Mendocino, Marrakech: the midsummer inventory (opens the original)
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Good evening from Singapore, where it’s 30 degrees and 85 percent humidity at 9 pm, and I’m happy as a clam because 1) that’s still seven degrees cooler than Florence, with no mozzies; 2) my skin loo… Read more
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