How hot was Europe this summer? I was in southern France in July, walked outside for five minutes at noon, and my phone popped up a “heat warning.” A local friend told me: it used to be that summer meant Mediterranean beaches. Now summer means escaping to the Alps. This trend has a name: Coolcation. […]
This August, Bangkok hosted a HYROX race billed as the largest in Asian history — 20,000+ athletes over four days. A friend of mine from Singapore flew in specifically to compete, then stayed three extra days to explore Bangkok. “These days, I book flights for the starting line, not the beach or the ramen,” he […]
I have a habit — every time I travel abroad to meet clients, I find a café near my hotel in the morning, order a pour-over, and sit for half an hour. Not to be pretentious, but because I genuinely need that coffee to beat jet lag. But in the past two years, I’ve noticed […]
Last month at a home goods fair in Frankfurt, I had dinner with a local sourcing manager. She told me she didn’t visit any popular attractions this summer — she just spent a week in the Black Forest, hiking, reading, and drinking local cherry wine. “I’m done with three-days-five-cities kind of travel,” she said. “The […]
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