Each Monday, powered by Globalista, we bring you the best of the weekend’s travel pages. Looking for an escape? Look no further.
Hot in the city
Summer is usually the time to escape from the city – but a few of these options just might change your mind. “This summer, the Berlin Biennale isn’t the only art show in town. Kreuzberg, long one of Berlin’s creative districts, is hosting the first-ever Kreuzberg Biennale, through August…it’s got plenty of edgy offerings – and in some unlikely places,” Sally McGrane, who is In Berlin, Finding Art in Unlikely Places, wrote in The New York Times. In The Guardian, writer Vicky Baker heads for the quirky restaurants and bars of downtown Santiago: chill out in Chile’s capital; the Financial Times’ Rufus Purdy discovers A Finnish obsession with art and style in Helsinki, with the city’s Design Week in August; and Sophie Lam details 48 Hours In: Rio de Janeiro, “Brazil’s most flamboyant city” in The Independent.
Frodo walked here. Photo credit: Christiano Corsini
In the footsteps of Hobbits
A bit further afield, The New York Times’s Alex Hutchinson takes an eight-day hike In Frodo’s Footsteps in New Zealand, exploring the enchanting beauties of Fiordland, which set the seen for the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy films. Christopher Solomon, also in The New York Times, is on bike in Four Corners, Two Wheels – a “five-day, 400-mile cycling trip through some of the most remote and spectacular canyon-country roads in the Four Corners region of Colorado, Utah and Arizona.” And the Financial Times’s Carl Wilkinson is undeterred by the threat of unexploded mines and terrorism while he goes Kitesurfing in the Sahara, in Dakhla: “The almost constant wind and minimal waves and swell make it an ideal spot for pros and novices alike…but Dakhla offers near perfect wind and little else.” Need some pampering after all that walking, biking and kitesurfing? In The Guardian, Nicole Iseard has the answer with Cottages with cachet – from Oxfordshire to Argyll, Cornwall to Cumbria, she tours the new breed of super-cottage, less “wellies and walks”, and more hot tubs, cinemas, helicopter pads and private chefs.
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