Travel and restaurants
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The Monocle Weekender: Asheville edition
Tyler Brûlé, Andrew Tuck and the Monocle team gather for a special weekend event in Asheville, North Carolina.
Staying power
There’s far more to a hotel than a place to sleep, as Singapore-based Capella Hotels’ ambitious Australian debut proves. We check in to find out more.
Cabin crew
Star chef Andreas Caminada and protégé Silvio Germann have transformed a 1911 Swiss villa near Lake Constance into an intimate six-room inn celebrating Alpine hospitality.
Sleek peak
Alpine retreat The Comodo is breathing new life into the charming village of Bad Gastein.
Dutch master
A former waterside inn in a quiet fishing village north of Amsterdam is now a cosy hotel and restaurant where good food, nice design and big views all entice you to linger.
Great lengths
The team behind Berlin's Otto opens a refreshingly unpretentious sister restaurant, serving Austrian comfort food including fried chicken and venison goulash in relaxed moss-green surrounds.
Cable network
Ferrying thousands to the summit of Sugarloaf might seem like a tall order in itself. But Rio’s cable-car team will move mountains for their visitors.
The Opener
Pablo Escobar’s hippos, manhole-cover designs and a fake cemetery in Egypt.
River beds
Our travel round-up begins with a theatrical Paris hotel beside the Seine. Over the page, we immerse ourselves in Bath, visit a homely Mexican mansion and sample Japanese hospitality in Hokkaido.
Field days
For the Dutch couple who run Sterrekopje among the valleys and fields near Stellenbosch in South Africa, operating a hotel encouraging guests to interact with its staff is as natural as the bucolic surroundings.
