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  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
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    Jeff Bezos’s wedding draws storm of protest in Venice

    Billionaire’s nuptials become lightning rod in city plagued by overtourism and climate change

    Greenpeace Italy and UK group Everyone Hates Elon placed a banner in St. Mark’s Square reading ‘If you can rent Venice for your wedding you can pay more tax’, ahead of the expected wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez before police removed it
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Smash hits: nine Londoners’ favourite public courts

    They might not have the comforts of private clubs, but the courts in the capital’s parks more than ace it on the charm front. Nine Londoners share their favourites

    TV presenter and podcaster Miquita Oliver in tennis whites at Springfield Park tennis courts, east London
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
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    The 10 most entertaining terraces in London

    Elevate your dining experience, whether you’re watching Wimbledon, Wicked, or the sun go down

    The terrace at Kioku
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs

    Players in the know are sidestepping the capital’s jam-packed tennis courts — and eye-watering private club fees — by joining crews focused on community and fun where everyone’s welcome

    About 25 members of London’s Net Socials tennis club standing on a court and chatting in groups
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHow to coast it – great escapes for summer 2025
    A gourmet’s guide to the Isle of Wight

    The English island’s food scene is exploding

    The Needles Lighthouse on the western tip of the Isle of Wight
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHow to coast it – great escapes for summer 2025
    Five sweet retreats by the water

    Make the perfect getaway, by ocean, sea or lake

    Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
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    HTSI editor’s letter: run away with me ... 

    ... to a Welsh bothy, Jean Cocteau’s Côte d’Azur retreat and Istanbul’s island idyll in our Escape special

    Claerddu Bothy on the Cambrian Way in Wales
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
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    Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far

    From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far

  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
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    How to coast it – great escapes for summer 2025

    The HTSI guide to the best waves, shores and secret addresses

    Leander Straub in Santa Margherita Ligure in Liguria, Italy
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    Sand, sea and solitude in Sardinia’s ‘little Sahara’

    While the Costa Smeralda draws a crush of billionaires and superyachts, on the opposite side of the island, the Costa Verde has vast dunes, a slick new hotel — and almost nobody around

    A cluster of buildings around a courtyard and a swimming pool, and surrounded by deserted sandy beach
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
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    Can I make flying more enjoyable?

    First class or business? And other dilemmas

    Cartoon of a man in a suit lifting his own head with both hands, revealing an empty neck hole
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHow to coast it – great escapes for summer 2025
    Inside Jean Cocteau’s dreamiest creation – now available to rent

    The Côte d’Azur sanctuary Villa Santo Sospir, fully restored, is the ultimate escape

    The dining room at Villa Santo Sospir. table is an original design by Madeleine Castaing; the 1950s Ondulations chairs by Paolo Buffa were found by Jacques Grange. The tapestry depicting Judith slaying Holofernes is designed by Jean Cocteau/The decorated sitting room. The armchairs are by Gio Ponti, the Orgone coffee table is by Marc Newson for Cappellini. The rug in the foreground is a Jean Cocteau design, original to the house
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s most popular stories – from bothy escapes to buzzy summer terraces
    How the shepherd’s hut became the last word in luxury

    Clean air, solitude... somewhere to dry your socks. One writer walks the Welsh mountains to find out why bothies are the best

    Claerddu bothy in the Cambrian Mountains, Wales, set on a footpath that is part of the Cambrian Way. The dog in the foreground, Hank, belongs to the photographer
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Postcard from Holy Isle: the Buddhist sanctuary on a Scottish island

    Founded by a Tibetan monk who saw the island in a dream, the ‘Centre for World Peace and Health’ offers courses and retreats — and welcomes day-trippers too

    Illustration of a cottage flanked by Buddhist stupas and prayer flags
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Gorongosa — how a national park destroyed by civil war is bouncing back

    Once home to guerrillas — for whom it offered an airstrip and a plentiful supply of free-range meat — the Mozambican park has made a remarkable recovery

    A lush green forest at dawn or dusk, with a lioness strolling past
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHow to coast it – great escapes for summer 2025
    Forget the bullet train – the best way to see Japan is by classic car

    The Peninsula Driving Experience delivers a perfect joy ride

    Mount Fuji seen beyond the town of Fujikawaguchiko on the Peninsula Driving Experience route
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far
    Best summer books of 2025: Food, Drink and Travel

    Harriet Fitch Little and Tom Robbins select their best mid-year reads

    A row of book covers
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHow to coast it – great escapes for summer 2025
    Summer in Santa? A laidback break in Liguria

    Rediscover Riviera style in the Italian fishing town

    Leander Straub wears Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello pékin shirt, £780, wool scarf (tied around waist), £505, brass necklace (just seen), £265, and vegetable leather belt, £480. Av Vattev cotton shirt with cotton scarf, £235. Commission cotton boxers (just seen), £225. Church’s leather sandals, £740. Bianca Saunders cotton cap, £150. Collanine Colorate coral and pearl necklace, £55. Vincent Vintage Bijoux silver and ivory bangle, POA
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top: an arty Saturday in Lagos with author and publisher Toni Kan

    Where the creative dynamo goes to take in some art, source vintage vinyl and catch a concert — and his favourite places to dine and drink en route

    Toni Kan at Freedom Park, Lagos
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Three top golf courses within swinging distance of Edinburgh

    World-class rounds await a hop, skip and a putt away from the Scottish capital

    A green at North Berwick Golf Club, looking towards the sea and a small island with a lighthouse on it
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterFresh stays in New York City: a hotel for every vibe
    Solid returns: The Wall Street Hotel, New York

    The site of the city’s original Stock Exchange is now a five-star stay that’s also — insider tip — great for gossip

    Detail of the terrace at Tontine, the rooftop bar at The Wall Street Hotel
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterFresh stays in New York City: a hotel for every vibe
    New York’s Gilded Age reimagined: The Fifth Avenue Hotel 

    On an unlikely stretch of the avenue, NoMad’s new luxury hotel is a feast of colour, character and maximalist magic

    A suite in The Fifth Avenue Hotel: A luxurious room with smooth, sage-green walls. A large bed with a tall, plush, dark blue headboard faces a decorative green divider with arched glass, revealing a sunlit sitting area
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterFresh stays in New York City: a hotel for every vibe
    ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’: Moxy finds its place in Williamsburg

    The Marriott brand’s first foray into Brooklyn may be a slightly transparent attempt to curry favour with the hipsters, but the location and views are hard to beat

    The LilliStar bar in the Moxy Williamsburg hotel at sunset, with the Manhattan skyline silhouetted through its floor-to-ceiling windows
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterFresh stays in New York City: a hotel for every vibe
    From punk to posh: inside the Hotel Chelsea’s second act

    Can you gentrify sleaze, drugs, bohemia and the lives of countless artists? FT architecture critic Edwin Heathcote returns after 35 years to find out

    The white and red neon sign of New York’s Hotel Chelsea
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterFresh stays in New York City: a hotel for every vibe
    Great expectations: The Ned NoMad is making it in Manhattan

    A Beaux-Arts beauty is home to the chic, understated sibling of The Ned London

    The Atrium lounge in The Ned NoMad, featuring yellow velvet armchairs, small lamps on round bronze tables and potted palms
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