William Chamberlayne
Articles by William Chamberlayne
In this issue of the Lifetime Society Communiqué, we stroll the cobbled streets of one of Europe’s most atmospheric and beautifully preserved cities.
The glory days of the great transatlantic liners may be over…but in this month’s cover story, Paul Lewis finds you can embark on your own odyssey, trailing the heroes and gods of classical legend in the Mediterranean, or searching for buried treasure in a Caribbean pirate-cove—there’s still romance in cruise travel.
In your February issue, our travel correspondent, Paul Lewis, writes about the world’s rarest and most expensive wools. Shahtoosh shawls, made from the fine hair of the dwindling flock of Chiru, can retail today for $10,000 or more.
In our cover story, Paul Lewis writes about Cape Town’s wine regions. It’s a fascinating account, spanning 350 years, of how vineyards quickly spread across the Western Cape.
Museums are battling over the exhibited antiquities with the countries where the artifacts originated. Repossessions have occurred…and you can read just some of the examples of this in our cover story this month.
In this issue of the Lifetime Society Communiqué, we profile American Cynthia Mulder. Cynthia first visited Panama with her husband and son in 2001 and liked what she saw.
Meet one of your fellow VIPs, a woman who’s turning her love of good wine into a canny travel plan. And you’ll also discover a restaurant that showcases local bottles with fresh food at reasonable prices, even during harvest.
I understand that in some countries or cities, the car is the only option—Shenzhen in southern China is easier navigated by taxi than bus, as is Casablanca, Morocco as I discovered recently.
If I was going to put down roots in Latin America, I would head straight for Portugal’s only Spanish speaking colony, the tiny town of Colónia del Sacramento on the other side of the river Plate from Buenos Aires.
I discovered this unpleasant fact on last year’s jaunt to Peru, where I holed up in Lima’s venerable Country Club Hotel. This colonial institution—vastly improved, by the way, since my last visit to San Isidro more than 20 years ago—overlooks a charming golf course, but the rigors of my travels had taken away all desire for even the simplest of swings. Instead I took to having a late breakfast in my spacious quarters (the eggs Benedict are perfectly comme il faut), rereading Shackleton’s Arctic hardships, and gazing wistfully over the fairway.
The train I boarded was indeed heading for the château de Fontainebleau some 50 miles south of
Paris. But there was nobody on the platform to tell me it was not the fast, direct train I had been told to take instead of the slow, wandering beast that crawled along the banks of the river Seine for hours.
This issue William Chamberlayne, our travel editor emeritus and indefatigable wanderer finds a piece of the Loire valley in a corner of England and wonders at its material comforts and degree of warmth.
There is nothing like a dollop of old “Mr. Five Per Cent’s” loot for …
As I grow older and richer, I find that living gets cheaper. I now enjoy senior citizen discounts on rail and bus fares and reduced entry to museums, cinemas, and theaters.
This month we continue our travels in Egypt with our curmudgeonly travel editor William Chamberlayne, who finds just his kind of hotel in Luxor and muses in its comfort over the curse of Tutankhamun.
This month we travel to distant Laos with Victor Paul Borg to try and pierce the secret of the plain of urns.
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