Bearleader Chronicle

Step back in time, into a world of wooden desks and slate chalkboards. A Schoolhouse turned chic retreat in Italy proves school can be cool. Nestled in the …

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Midtown Manhattan is the home of the city’s most iconic buildings. You know the most famous ones: the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the …

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Through a small passage off the north arcade of the Place des Vosges, sits the Pavilion of the Queen , a place where you can lodge in the style of …

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A city founded on its legendary access to the cleanest and most pure water, Jeonju was the birthplace of the Joseon Empire, which reigned for five centuries. …

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Some of the best sleep-over experiences happen when the place you stay is also what you have gone to see. Taking this to the extreme, the other day I got a …

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On your next trip to Philadelphia why not stay with one of the famous characters from the city’s early history? Dr. Thomas Bond was good friends…

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The historic Hotel Sorrento in Seattle s Capital Hill neighborhood has long attracted explorers and eccentrics. Built in 1909 by apparel merchant Samuel …

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“Beauty is meaningless unless it is shared,” wrote George Orwell in his novel “Burmese Days”. Entering the lobby of the Strand Hotel in Yangon …

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A few weeks ago a friend called from San Francisco with a question. I m visiting London with my mother soon and we want to take a day trip into the …

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The High Line Hotel, new kid on the block of New York boutique hotels, is not your cookie-cutter-design tourist hotel. Entering the lobby is like stepping back …

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Vacation Stay No.12: On the eve of yet another nor’easter blanketing New York with a pristine white coat of snow, and with spring still months away, we just …

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If you are anything like us, around the official end of winter you start to get a bit impatient for a little warmth and sunshine in your life. It seems like …

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Boutique hotels report: This month we engaged world travelers and men about town Teddy and Winston to sniff out some of the exclusive services on offer at the …

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The names of streets are a cities way of remembering the great and good that navigated the twists and turns of urban society past.

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This week we make our way from city to country to spend a few blissful nights in a bed and breakfast in wales. Accommodations of the bed-and-breakfast type are …

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Off Manhattan’s 44th Street, a few steps from the hustle and bustle of Times Square, is The Chatwal Hotel. A few years ago this amazing …

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If you have never explored Britain s South West, there is a place on the coast of Cornwall that is a particular favorite of mine. And it is not surprising …

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Popular for their distinctively simple and well crafted goods, architecture and apparel, the Shakers and the utopian villages they created continue to be a …

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