Travel and restaurants
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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.
Out of the past
The Peninsula hospitality group’s new perch on the Bosphoros floats our boat. Monocle takes an early peek at how this vast new hotel is helping to transform Istanbul’s Karaköy neighbourhood.
Crimson tide
Ferries have been chugging between Japan and South Korea for decades but a new scarlet vessel, the 'Queen Beetle', is offering passengers a less choppy voyage across the Genkai Sea.
