Journal — Travel Lens
My Travel
Lens
Stories, stays, and tables from the road — collected one frame at a time. Linger a while and you'll also find a handful of dispatches on the meals worth crossing a city for: the dish that turned a trip, the bite still talked about months later.
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- Gino e Toto Sorbillo — Via dei Tribunali, Naples
- Nassau — Atlantis, Stingrays, and the King of Conch
- Lo Schiaccianoci — Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
- Sinfonica alla Scala
- SUR Beach House & A Few Weeks in Cabo
- Three Cliffside Tables in Cinque Terre
- The Best of Dubai
- Havana 1957 — Miami Beach
- Five Palm & Five Jumeirah Village
- Seres Springs Resort & Wandering Bali
- The Wild Monkey Forest of Ubud
- The Fiery Allure of Las Fallas
- Schliersee — A Bavarian Winter
13 Stories
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SUR Beach House & A Few Weeks in Cabo
Hibiscus margaritas, camel rides, and the long arc of the Baja coast
A hibiscus margarita as the Sea of Cortez turns gold, a camel walk through the desert the next morning, and a few unhurried weeks of Cabo where no day was in a rush.
Travel
Nassau — Atlantis, Stingrays, and the King of Conch
Pink towers, glass-clear lagoons, and a paper cup of conch salad on Arawak Cay
Food
Havana 1957 — Miami Beach
Churrasco, frozen daiquiris, and a sunrise on South Beach
Travel
The Fiery Allure of Las Fallas
Valencia, on fire
Food
Three Cliffside Tables in Cinque Terre
Tortuga, Nessun Dorma, La Torre — and how to string them together
Travel
Schliersee — A Bavarian Winter
Snow on the rooftops, sun through the clouds, and a quiet that holds
Travel
The Best of Dubai
Skypools, ceviche, and a lesson in SPF
Travel
Five Palm & Five Jumeirah Village
A modern interlude in Dubai
Travel
Seres Springs Resort & Wandering Bali
Where Bali slows you down
Travel
The Wild Monkey Forest of Ubud
Where the wild and the sacred coexist
Travel
Gino e Toto Sorbillo — Via dei Tribunali, Naples
Blue-and-white awnings, a crowd that spills into the street, and pizza napoletana the city is built around
Travel
Lo Schiaccianoci — Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
A yearly ritual of sugar plums, snow, and Tchaikovsky in Rome
Travel
Sinfonica alla Scala
A symphonic evening in Milan's most hallowed hall
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
Anonymous