We know where you need to go now and which destinations you can leave a little longer on your bucket list. You can find it all in our Travel News of the month.
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Travel News 1: The Wilds
It doesn’t always have to be the five-star luxury temple that we crave most in our free time. If you’re into real adventures, namely sleeping under the stars, cuddling up side by side with alpacas or relaxing in the sauna hut on the edge of the forest, hinterland.camp is the place for you. Campers can find private campsites and pitches via the accompanying app, and for those who prefer to stay within four walls, the platform offers unique accommodation that is not yet on every bucket list. Sleeping under a thatched roof in Lüneburg, glamping in a tent by a quarry pond or lazing around in a tiny house surrounded by corn and maize fields somewhere in Bavaria? Just scroll through and find things you won’t find in any travel guide.
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Travel News 2: Archipelago
Surrounded by water, the horizon always in view and that Robinson Crusoe feeling as your constant companion: that’s what it’s like on an island.
If the idea doesn’t give you the shivers, but instead makes your feet itch, we recommend “Kinfolk Islands”, a work full of pretty islands that have not yet been trampled to death by package tourists. Whether cliffs or sandy beaches, urban oasis or jungle paradise: Among these twenty islands on five continents, every reader will find a new destination for their kitschy daydream.
John Burns, “Kinfolk Islands”, Knesebeck, ca. 42 (kinfolk.com)
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Travel News 3: Princess’ Refuge
What do you do in Monte-Carlo if you don’t have the money for the big casino fortune or the yacht for a leisurely cruise off the coast? Well, we spend our time at Monte-Carlo Beach, an art deco hotel with charm and so much history that we feel like Grace Kelly on vacation. Since the 1920s, this place has been something of an insider tip among those seeking the magic of the Côte d’Azur – artists, musicians and the crème de la crème of Monaco mingle here quite naturally with travelers who don’t want to choose between the glitter of the Principality and the nature of the French Riviera. The location at the outer tip of Monaco gives us the privacy we crave, and the close proximity to the sea gives us the constant sound of the waves, to which we sleep as if we have no appointments on our agenda. Incidentally, if the latter is too cold for a leisurely swim, we do our lengths in the heated Olympic seawater pool, relax in a cabana on the private beach or on the terrace of the Elsa restaurant, from where we enjoy both the view of the moving blue and the pine grove that surrounds Monte Carlo Beach. Since the beginning of June, the hotel has also scored with its la Vigie Beach Club, located in the middle of the green oasis of the Pointe de la Vigie headland, where we sip cocktails and dip our toes in the blue water as the sun sinks ever lower.
Monte-Carlo Beach, Avenue Princess Grace, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (montecarlosbm.com)
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Travel News 4: Cose della Vita
Naples only knows extremes. This applies to the food as well as the soundtrack of this city, which is made up of honking and shouting, moaning about the heat and the enthusiastic aha about everything that jumps out at you. Capturing all of this is as impossible as taming a bull and involves at least as much adrenaline. Tobias Müller, Peter Mayr and Maria Fuchs nevertheless gave it a go and deserved a medal for the result – or at least our applause. The result is “Tutto Napoli”, more a declaration of love than a travel guide, with texts by Müller and photographs by Mayr as well as a great deal of affection for this southern paradise, which devours everyone who approaches it from the roots of their hair to their toes.
Peter M. Mayr, Tobias Müller & Maria Fuchs, “Tutto Napoli – Der Geschmack der Stadt”, self-published, design by Roman Breier/grafisches Büro, approx. 64 (napolidasbuch.at)
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