Category: Daily Traveler Blog

If you read the Daily Travelerthis summer you already know that I have a fondness for tapas. My former favorite small-plates spot was Barcelona’s Cal Pep, but this week I discovered its gastronomic rival, Casa Montana, just down the Mediterranean coast in Valencia’s Cabañal neighborhood. Although new to me, this is no trendy newcomer. A …

Just in time for the worsening economy, Paris’s new Mama Shelter recognizes that even those on a budget need to be stylish. This cheap-and-chic property in the hip up-and-coming neighborhood of Saint Blaise was designed by Philippe Starck and comes with plenty of toys for the need-to-be-distracted-from-the-bad-news set–think in-room iMacs and free WiFi, scooters or …

My latest travel obsession is with luxury camping: I like being close to nature but having plenty of comforts, too, and it seems I am not the only one. At Condé Nast Traveler‘s Reader’s Choice Awards last week, India Beat‘s Bertie Dyer (one of Wendy Perrin’s  travel specialists) told me about the new Surya Serai …

If you have ever wondered whether Italian bureaucracy is actually as monumental as people say, the fact that it took the Four Seasons seven years to open in Florence might give you a clue. Every few months, builders stumbled on yet another fresco or statue and things came to a standstill as the Bella Arte …