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I fell in love (again) (opens the original)
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I don’t fall in love as easily as I used to. I think now with some envy about how, as a wide-eyed young American, I used to wander the streets of Europe in awe of every edifice and dumbstruck by its churches. Every time I arrived in Paris and my hotel room wasn’t ready, I raced to the nearest boulangerie to gorge on pain au chocolat, as if by overeating them I could make up for years of never knowing they existed. (New England food culture for the win!) Now, it can take a lot to arouse within me
The luckiest people in history (opens the original)
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It was something that could derail any trip—jet-lag-induced insomnia.Laying wide awake at 3 AM, tossing, rearranging pillows, sighing, until finally doing the only sensible thing one can do at 4:30 in the morning in Paris … go for a walk.I pulled on something respectable (but no need to overthink it), got the pitying but a little annoyed desk man to open the door, and then went out onto the streets of Paris.And it was all mine.Getting Around with William O'Connor is a
Maybe the most underrated great hotel (opens the original)
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You can stay in a hotel with a more spectacular view, but for sheer spectacle few hotels I’ve stayed in compare to the Inn at Little Washington.The Washington-area mainstay occupies a strange position in American hospitality. It’s one of its most regularly lauded properties by critics (and anybody who has ever gone), but remains obscure to most outside the D.C. region.The hotel is a fever dream of American hospitality feudalism. An entire village in one of the most picturesque corners of the cou
A milestone, and a confession (opens the original)
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I am contrarian, cranky, critical, occasionally caustic, and in certain situations, some other words that start with a hard C. This is the 100th newsletter for Getting Around—a good moment to reflect on what I’m up to here, and to offer some sense of the value in having somebody with those attributes end up in your inbox nearly every week.In my inaugural newsletter, I wrote that, “while we are all traveling more than ever, I remain convinced most of us aren’t having fun.” I hoped to be able to
I'm conflicted about a buzzy new museum (opens the original)
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I’ve never been more confused as to how I felt about a museum than the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA. Housed in an undulating glass-and-concrete structure that straddles Wilshire Boulevard, it’s a snazzy and slick addition to the jumbled collection of buildings that make up this popular museum complex. But as I walked its halls of floor-to-ceiling windows and dark gray concrete, I was reminded of that now-legendary Wall Street Journal interview with Aretha Franklin.It’s sort of a standard
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