Quiet corners of the old continent.
EscapesA journey through the Scottish Highlands aboard the Royal Scotsman is a lesson in the art of slow travel, where the landscape itself becomes the main event and the train a moving study in Edwardian grace.
EscapesHigh above the Limmat, a Zurich institution deftly marries Belle Époque grandeur with a strikingly modern sensibility. It is a balancing act few hotels manage with such confidence.
EscapesOn the shores of Lake Como, a sixteenth-century cardinal's summer villa turned grand hotel continues to define the very essence of civilized leisure. It is a place not of fleeting trends, but of deep, reassuring continuity.
EscapesOn the dramatic cliffs of Big Sur, a singular hotel eschews old-world formality for a more profound luxury—one rooted in architectural harmony, elemental forces, and the quiet contemplation of the continent's edge.
EscapesOn the shore of Lac Léman, Lausanne’s grand dame continues to define Swiss hospitality, balancing its Belle Époque soul with a quietly contemporary spirit. It remains a bastion of civilized retreat.
EscapesComo has the glitter, but Garda has the soul. Italy’s largest lake remains a bastion of Mitteleuropean discretion, a place of quiet grandeur where the Alps descend to meet the Lombard plain.
EscapesMore than mere transport, the railway from Inverness to the sea is a slow-motion immersion into the wild heart of the Highlands, a journey best measured in landscapes revealed, not miles travelled.
EscapesIn an age of instant gratification, the Bernina Express offers a more refined proposition: a four-hour passage across the sublime theatre of the Alps, where the journey itself is the destination.