Mademoiselleosaki.com This Week in Travel: The world’s top destinations for festive cheer, luxury lifestyle in Monaco and Italy, a bag full of knives, and the places you won’t be able to visit in 2023.
Happy Holidays
As any of the Who in Whoville can tell you, the home of Christmas is within our hearts. But if you want to be sure the holiday cheer is just right, you can always take a trip somewhere that sees the season in style, like Dresden in Germany, which is a stollen-scented wonderland from November to January. Other places with a little more Christmas magic include San Fernando in the Philippines, famous for its lantern festival, and Belen in Pennsylvania, which has a live Advent Calendar. If comfort and joy for you instead mean a Wham! great video show From fondue, sweaters, and snowy peaks, our roundup of the best ski resorts for vacations will help you choose where to snuggle up by the fire.
This newsletter will also take a short holiday break next week. We’ll be back with our next roundup on New Year’s Eve.
conscious kitchen
Reale Restaurant in the Abruzzo region of eastern Italy has been named the best restaurant in all the land, but in a surprising departure from what we think of as “Italian cuisine,” the tasting menu here is entirely vegetarian. And in Los Angeles, a restaurant in Little Ethiopia changes its menu monthly to offer dishes from the homeland of a refugee or immigrant chef. It is the vision of Meymuna Hussein-Cattan, the daughter of Ethiopian refugees who made her home in Orange County, California. She is one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes of 2022.Sea level rise is the looming threat to the Maldivian resort islands, so the country’s hotel industry is looking for new ways to operate as sustainably as possible. Roots, a plant-based dining concept, is leading the way.
elegant life
Monaco was once described as “a sunny place for bleak people”, but what is it really like to live in the tiny principality where seven out of 10 people are millionaires? We talked to the residents of this elite playground. If you prefer your mansions with a little more historical influence, the Italian city of Genoa is full of palaces so magnificent that they are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This is how the high rollers do it at the Palazzi dei Rolli. And for those with $2 million left over after ordering their Christmas presents, there’s a castle, palace, and village for sale in Italy’s northern Emilia Romagna region.
Misbehaving Traveler of the Week
The TSA recently found 28 knives in a carry-on suitcase.
TSA
Well, we all know that you can’t carry a knife on the plane. But what about… 28 knives?
That’s what they recently caught a passenger in Alaska with, leaving TSA officer Oran Caudle pulling them out of his carry-on luggage like Mary Poppins with her carpet bag.
“That’s my knife collection, can’t I take it with me on the plane?” asked the passenger. That’s a no, sir.
But some travelers who won’t run into new legal complications are visitors to Bali, who won’t be affected by new Indonesian laws banning extramarital sex, authorities said this week.
Places you can’t visit in 2023
While most of the world is open again, not all tourist attractions survived the pandemic unscathed.
These are the places you won’t be able to visit next year. Some have closed for an update, while others have closed their doors for good.
The best ski equipment
A ski trip is not a “throw slippers in a bag and fly” type of vacation.
In addition to those all-important skis, you’ll need a ski jacket, snow pants, goggles, helmet, gloves, and many, many layers. Our partners at CNN Underscored, a CNN-owned guide to product reviews and recommendations, have curated the best items you’ll need for a trip to the slopes.
In case you missed it
A huge aquarium with 1,500 fish exploded in a Berlin hotel.
Two young refugee sisters were given $100 on a plane by a mystery woman over 20 years ago.
A photo of a clumsy lion cub falling out of a tree is the winner of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
A European city has once again been named the most attractive tourist destination in the world.
Here’s why, along with seven other European cities in the top 10, it made the cut.
Source: news.google.com