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Monaco has launched six new walking routes, which is encouraging because Monaco is the sort of place where one assumes walking is mainly done by impeccably dressed people crossing from a Bentley to a yacht.
For us, the number one reason to fly Business (given the significant extra cost) was a lie-flat bed. On Air China, this is a winner as it is easy to use. Merely push the button with the lie-flat bed symbol on it. There are other buttons too, for instance to adjust the recline and the footrest but they are all easy to understand and use. No cabin attendant needs to flip over the seat (Singapore Airlines looking at you) nor explain how the buttons work.
But Champagne now has competition. The latest French obsession is butter. French butter, particularly the Breton sort made by Maison Bordier, has acquired the sort of following usually associated with limited-edition handbags and restaurants whose booking systems open at 3am and are full by 3.01.
Asia has become the default new gateway, with most major Asian airlines reporting full flights out of Australia. With its reputation for uncompromising safety and service, Cathay Pacific is an obvious choice for Europe-bound travellers. But how do its premium cabins stack up against the rest? Firstclassmagazine.co recently put the airline’s A350 business class experience to the test.
We are spending time in Lyon – the gastronomic centre of France. One restaurant is on our “must do” list, Michelin-starred Restaurant Paul Bocuse. First opened by Paul Bocuse’s grandfather in 1924, Restaurant Paul Bocuse is about eight kilometres out of Lyon in Bocuse’s hometown of Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or. Dining there is to dine like Royalty.
This is that holiday. Because visiting the filming locations of Wuthering Heights is not like visiting Paris, where you eat croissants and feel attractive. Nor is it like visiting Italy, where you drink wine and develop unrealistic expectations about linen trousers. No. This is Yorkshire. The emotional equivalent of walking directly into someone else’s unresolved trauma.
Season Five picks up exactly where the last left off: Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) heads to Rome to help launch Agence Grateau’s new Italian office. Paris is still technically home, but Rome is where things get complicated – professionally, romantically, and in that particular Emily way where a single PowerPoint idea can detonate her entire life.
Five Greek Islands for People Who Like Greece, But Not Elbowing Strangers for a Sun Lounger
There are two kinds of Greek island holidays: the velvet-rope, DJ-fuelled kind where you dodge influencers mid–engagement shoot, and the quieter, better kind with blue water, long lunches, locals who still outnumber visitors, and the radical luxury of space. These five islands belong firmly to the second camp – beautiful, storied, delicious, and refreshingly untrampled by the tourist throng.
So just when you thought your couch couldn’t possibly look any drabber, along comes Foxtel with the official trailer for Luxury Escapes: The World’s Best Holidays, premiering Thursday 11 September. And before you ask, yes, episodes will be dropping weekly because delayed gratification is still a thing in 2025.
Luxury Escapes has just announced its newest Signature Series tour to Türkiye, and it’s hosted by none other than Shane Delia, chef, TV personality, and the man most likely to know where the really good köfte is hiding.
It’s official. The mountains have been feng-shuied.
On 24 July 2025, in the idyllic (read devastatingly photogenic and intimidatingly clean) village of San Cassiano, Aman Rosa Alpina flung open its majestic doors.
If you’ve ever gazed wistfully at a photo of Kim Kardashian lounging above a caldera, framed by infinity pool and volcanic rock, and thought, “I too deserve that level of divine laziness” then allow us to introduce Andronis Luxury Suites: Santorini’s best-dressed, least-shouty hideaway for the globally recognisable and the spiritually exhausted.
Opening image credit: Roberto Sorin
