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The Queen, Her Yacht — and the Hotel That Upstaged Them Both
City of Edinburgh

The Queen, Her Yacht — and the Hotel That Upstaged Them Both

Aug 6, 2026 15 min read

I returned to Edinburgh for Elizabeth II’s private rooms. W Edinburgh rewrote the script. By the time I reached Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II had already hijacked my Scottish itinerary from beyond the grave. Balmoral had top billing. It was the reason for returning to Scotland: the private Highland estate where the late Queen spent her summers, r

Tallinn Lost to the Hotel: One Frozen Night in Estonia
Tallinn

Tallinn Lost to the Hotel: One Frozen Night in Estonia

Jul 29, 2026 11 min read

I arrived by ferry, walked through the Old Town at minus eighteen and discovered that a medieval capital could not compete with an excellent dinner and a warm spa. Tallinn’s medieval walls, edited to reflect how that minus-eighteen morning actually felt. Tallinn was not the main destination of this journey. It was one carefully chosen overnight s