Each week, powered by Globalista, we’ll bring you a digest of the weekend’s best travel coverage.
In The Financial Times Jan Morris discovers that Oxford adapts to modern times. “Universitas Oxoniensis is presenting itself to the outside world anew, in its constant need for outside funding and official sanctions, and in doing so it seems to have found altogether new sources of energy…Over the rooftops north and south, towering cranes speak of new quadrangles, laboratories, halls of residence and research institutes…and, if you need somewhere to stay, not far away is the luxurious Malmaison, which until lately was the Oxford prison.”
Also in The Financial Times, Mark Hudson visits Venice in winter. “In winter, Venice becomes a different place. The sense of this ancient, decaying city as a slightly sinister labyrinth – unforgettably captured in the 1973 film Don’t Look Now – comes to the fore…I wouldn’t come at any other time. In winter, Venice seems to revert to an earlier version of itself, to become just the place where the Venetians live.”
“Bombay is indisputably India’s first city,” says Stanley Stewart in The Times. The Mumbai mix: a city guide reveals the many different sides of Mumbai. “In such an ancient land, Bombay is a young upstart. Developed in the 19th century to be the great port of the Raj, it hardly thought of itself as an Indian city at all until the turn of the 20th century. Now it bestrides the subcontinent like a colossus.”
Christopher Solomon in The New York Times brings us 36 Hours in Whistler, British Columbia. “Walk down the main promenade and see everyone from rich urban castaways and old-school hippies to French-babbling Québécois and weathered dropouts shouldering skis the size of ironing boards. It makes Whistler feel worldly and cosmopolitan, even when gold medals aren’t being handed out.”
The Telegraph features Nicky Haslam’s heaven on earth: Istanbul. “There is something quite extraordinary about Istanbul, thanks to its location on the edge of two continents…The city doesn’t just have the most amazing history, it has a fantastically glamorous setting on the Bosporus, and every time I cross the bridge linking the European and Asian parts my hair stands on end.”
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