For our annual travel issue, we cast off for new shores in more ways than one. Following in the footsteps of Odysseus and Onassis, we set sail across the Aegean to explore six slightly-lower-profile Greek islands in the Cyclades and Dodecanese and document the creative communities, permanent and transient, responsible for a recharged cultural energy there. We also investigate a niche in the world of cruising as a new wave of sleek, smaller vessels usurp the floating behemoths, promising greater comfort, cooler surroundings and perhaps a glimpse of what keeps the tech barons besotted by boats.
Back on dry land, our global editors check into the restorative oasis that is Six Senses London; camp out at Amangiri’s new six-bedroom private residence in Utah; visit brutalist Trieste church Monte Grisa; and make a whistlestop tour of Nairobi to glean the Kenyan capital’s creative goings-on.
This month’s entertaining story captures the vibrancy of nyonya kuih, traditional bite-sized Southeast Asian treats, while our interiors story offers rovers’ requisites plucked from the farthest reaches of the imagination.
For this month’s End Paper, our travel director Lauren Ho urges us to put pen to postcard on our travels, the better to recall the moments that have inspired us to travel in the first place. As she notes, ‘“Wish you were here” is one of the most recognisable lines of a certain time – scrawled on the back of cards showing sunlit promenades or famous landmarks – but what mattered wasn’t the words so much as a brief proof of life somewhere else.’ In this age of scrolling, saving and storing, the thought of sending a ‘note to self’ to welcome you on your return has real cachet.
