Michelin Star Gastronomic Tours: 2026’s Top Ten Destinations for Food Travelers

Michelin-starred restaurant tasting menu plated course

The Michelin Guide, first published by the Michelin tire company in 1900 as a promotional booklet for French motorists, awarded its first star in 1926. One hundred years later, on the guide’s centenary, the quietly remarkable fact is that its influence on global gastronomic tourism has never been greater. The Michelin universe in 2026 spans … Lire la suite

Luxury Train Journeys Compared: Orient Express, Belmond, and Rocky Mountaineer Reviewed

Interior of a luxury train dining cabin with mountain view

The question of whether a train journey can still matter as a travel experience in 2026 – when an Airbus A380 can deliver you from Paris to Singapore in less time than it takes to cross France by rail – has been answered quietly and definitively over the past decade. Luxury rail tourism has doubled … Lire la suite

Private Villas in Greece 2026: Insider Guide to Mykonos, Santorini, and Paros

White luxury villa overlooking the Aegean Sea in Santorini

August 2025 was the first summer in which the Cycladic private villa market in Greece reached, by the reckoning of the luxury agencies operating it, something approaching true parity with its French and Italian equivalents. Rates at the top end – the clifftop villas of Santorini’s Oia caldera, the six-bedroom compounds above Mykonos’s Agios Sostis, … Lire la suite