The most decadent new villas anywhere in the world, to book in 2021
From a palazzo in Palma to a teak longhouse near Chiang Rai – consider one of these glorious new villas for your next big break
19 January 2021 • 7:00am
Stay One Degree s new Camps Bay Villa in Cape Town
With space and privacy the ultimate post-pandemic commodity, dreamy exclusive-use homes are in high demand. Thankfully, there’s a fleet of new offerings on the villa rental market to suit every style and taste, both far-flung and closer to home.
Cliff Beach House, Waterford, Ireland
The dining room at Cliff Beach House
Instead of the travel hotlist we usually launch in January, writers across Europe pick the local spots they long to go back to when things open up <br>
How the super-rich will holiday in 2021
From an audience with the Pope to whale tagging in Norway, the ultra-wealthy are busy planning their next escape
1 January 2021 • 7:00am
Explore the Solomon Islands in 2021
Credit: David Kirkland
While there’s been much talk of travel bucket lists since Covid hit this year, it’s hard to imagine this really applying to the seriously wealthy. But given the on-off legality of travelling for everyone since March, even those with limitless budgets are now bursting to get away and let’s face it – we’re pretty much all craving the same thing: a hassle-free holiday that feels private, restorative, exciting and as Covid-free as it’s possible to be.
It had taken me my entire adult life and required traveling 4,500 miles around the world, but halfway up a frozen waterfall in Norway, I could cross something off the bucket list: I was finally in Conrad Anker’s pants.
I was also in Steve Swenson’s gloves… The French Ace Mathieu Maynadier’s jacket. And German ice-wizard Matthias Scherer’s sunglasses.
Matthias Scherer on
Flågbekken. Photo: Heike Schmitt.
While the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to dawn on much of the world back in early March 2020 the frenzy of buying essentials like skim milk and toilet paper in unreasonable qualities was still weeks away my main concern at that moment was that Lufthansa had lost my luggage during my four-flight marathon travel day to the Arctic Ice Festival here in the small village of Tennevel, in Troms, Norway. I was going to be here for nine days and, stranded without my personal gear, the Petzl athletes had taken pity on me and kitted me out as best they could.
6 Reasons Norway Needs To Be On Your Travel Bucket List
Evan Pagano
Evan Pagano
Evan Pagano
Say it with us:
Norway. That sounds nice, doesnât it? Close your eyes it looks nice, too, huh? Yeah, you should go to Norway.
Why wouldnât you? Itâs unwaveringly happy measurably happy, in fact, routinely ranking near the peak of the United Nationsâ World Happiness Report and itâs uniquely beautiful, offering sights only visible in a country carved by glaciers and marked with an artist in practically every town. Every view holds wonder. The skies, seen through jagged mountains, hold wonder; the waters, passing through gouges in the polished bedrock, hold wonder.