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Why this vibrant lakeside town in Mexico could be the new Tulum
Counting the colours on Lake Bacalar was becoming a bit of an obsession. I was sipping coffee on the deck with a young woman who clearly knew her Pantone charts. “That’s Bluefish segueing into Reflex,” she said. It’s easy to see why Bacalar is known as the Laguna de Siete Colores (the lagoon of seven colours).
6-min read - BusinessThe Telegraph
The golden age of airport lounges is over
Two boiled potatoes and a cocktail the colour of a Slush Puppy almost landed me in a West African jail. Admittedly, theft wasn’t on my mind when I’d huddled into a corner with the meagre pickings on offer at the (only) lounge in Gabon’s Léon-Mba International Airport in Libreville. Two lonely bottles of spirits behind the dusty bar weren’t even worth the extra weight in my luggage.
5-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
Behind the scenes with the Covent Garden street performers whose future is under threat
Daredevil unicyclists, master illusionists, knife-eating acrobats: the performers of Covent Garden are an institution. They create a kooky, Vaudevillian microcosm, lapped up by eager tourists. Today, though, Westminster Council has launched a public consultation on the future of street performance in Covent Garden and Leicester Square.
9-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Switzerland’s most luxurious ski resort just stepped things up
The storied Swiss resort of St Moritz, recognised across the globe as the mothership of Alpine luxury, has welcomed a shiny new five-star hotel, the Grace La Margna, ahead of the winter season, swelling its number to six stellar pads.
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
I sold my house to board a three-year cruise, which then got cancelled
This week, Keri Witman should be sailing to Brazil. It should be the first month of a three-year round-the-world cruise – an epic adventure for which she sold her four-bedroom house, gave away her possessions and paid a deposit of thousands. But there is no cruise; in fact, there isn’t even a ship.
6-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
Fortress islands and floating cities: extreme solutions that could save the Maldives from sinking
The Maldives is facing an existential crisis: within just a century, the majority of this archipelago of 1,192 tropical islands – ever-popular with honeymooners and lovers of barefoot-luxe – will have been consumed by the sea.
4-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
Sutton Hoo now rivals Stonehenge as England’s premier ancient site
It is a cold afternoon in the dying embers of November, and the Suffolk countryside is starting to embrace the winter. The paths that criss-cross Sutton Hoo’s gentle slopes are wet under foot, their stony surfaces made unhelpfully slippery by a combination of autumnal leaf mulch and the general dampness of the air.
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