Cathy Adams

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Global Festivals: Food & Drink

You don’t have to wander too far from home to find a festival dedicated to stuffing food down your maw, as Europe makes it easy to hop on a budget flight to t

Global Festivals: Natural & Spiritual

For a taste of the great outdoors, watch whales dip in and out of the water at the Hermanus Whale Festival (20 – 24 September, Hermanus), along the rugged coa

Global Festivals: Art & Film

Good news for intrepid literary globetrotters, two of the hottest festivals this year take place... on your doorstep. The London Literature Festival (20 May –

Culture: Read It

From Britain’s hidden islands to Italy’s passionate Borgia family and London’s hidden depths, we’ve got the lowdown on this summer’s most essential re

Culture: See It

If your salary just won’t stretch to cover that dream holiday, take your soul on a journey instead with our pick of travel- inspired exhibitions around the ca

Making the cover shoot

Our launch cover took us from China to Kenya and from Brazil to the Antarctic. Here we go behind the scenes to show how we meshed the entire world together in o

Gold iPads on offer in Dubai hotel

The self-proclaimed most luxurious hotel in the world – aka Dubai’s seven-star Burj Al Arab – has just introduced iPads for its guests…made of 24-carat

Tuck In: New London Restaurants

 Leave behind the meat and two veg with these hot new restaurant and bar openings…Cava is typically regarded as champagne’s cheaper and chavvier cousin

Escapism Launch Party

https://vimeo.com/66886955We officially launched Escapism at Vanilla London.

Destination Of The Week: Manu National Park, Peru

Peru’s best known for Macchu Pichu, right? Well, not this week at any rate.We want to be in Manu National Park deep in the Amazon rainforest this week. It’s

Food & Drink: From Mexico To Memphis

Mayfair bar Apres kicks off the summer spirit this weekend with its new ‘Latin Sundays’, channeling the vibe of Mexico. Colourful, chilled out and boozy, br

Exhibitions Of The Week

If you’re stuck for inspiration this week, we’ve got a couple of travel exhibitions on in London for you to try… Genesis: Sebastiao Salgado, Natural Hist

Welcome To The English Seaside

Perhaps this summer you'll finally stay in the UK instead of jetting off to foreign climes – and why not, when the English seaside looks this good?The English

Your Weekly Fix Of Travel Culture

Souzou: Outsider art from Japan, The Wellcome CollectionSouzou (loosely meaning creation or imagination in Japanese) presents a diverse exhibition including cer

Food & drink: pork, rum and tofu

This week's new openings take us from the Caribbean to Norfolk to China – get stuck in...Portside Parlour, HackneyThis Broadway Market basement bar is apparen

Hotel Of The Week: Ushuaia Tower Hotel, Ibiza

If Escapism were to launch hotels, it would probably be the Ushuaia Beach Hotel in Ibiza. It's a super-pimped hotel right on Playa d'en Bossa, the white isle'

What's On: Hot Tub Cinema

Okay so technically about as far as you'll go for hot tub cinema will be four floors up on a rooftop in Shoreditch, but it's still worth a mention.The summer se

Hotel Of The Week: Oberoi, Dubai

The newest hotel to land in Dubai this week is the Oberoi, Dubai, the latest launch from the eponymous luxury hotel chain.The Oberoi Dubai is the group's first

Destination Of The Week: Bali

Bali is regularly slated as one of those places that offers up total escapism. Whether it’s in a tent you’ve lugged across Asia or a five-star resort bristl

Landscape Photographer Of The Year

For the seventh year, the annual Landscape Photographer Of The Year competition is now open for entries. See the gallery above for winners from previous years.T