Visiting Egypt Right Now Means a Pyramid All to Yourself
WANNA GET AWAY?For once, having champagne tastes on a beer budget didn’t feel like a problem.
What Will Happen to Paris’ Grandest Hotels?
Spare a Dime?Faced with an unprecedented calamity, the most luxurious Paris hotels are doing the unthinkable—hustling for French coin.
Is the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia?
X NEVER, EVER MARKS THE SPOTAccording to Ethiopian lore, the Ark of the Covenant is hidden in a church in Aksum–a small city in the northern highlands–and guarded by a single monk.
Saudi Arabia’s Fashion Scene Is Real. Its ‘Reforms’ Are Not.
MIRAGEWhile I would like to go to Saudi again one day and see those famous rose-gold ruins or swim in the Red Sea, I hope it would be to a different incarnation of the country.