by Jan Sevilla | Aug 9, 2026 | ESCAPES
There is a Bangkok that rarely appears on the map these days. If you follow the river upstream, you’ll reach The Siam Bangkok hotel — a riverside luxury sanctuary that takes travelers into a forgotten world of wonder, Buddhist-grace, sanuk and the spirit...
by Jan Sevilla | Jul 11, 2026 | ESCAPES
Call it Brixen or call it Bressanone if you prefer your consonants softer. This South Tyrol’s oldest town runs on German efficiency, sustained by Italian coffee. In the middle of it all sits Hotel Elephant, a 500-year hotel that welcomed the world, as...
by Jan Sevilla | Jan 30, 2026 | HOTELS
by Jan Sevilla | Jan 10, 2026 | EVERYTHING'S CONSIDERED
Even the most seasoned travelers are one charming con artist away from enlightenment — and an empty purse. If you are searching on the internet about travel mishaps or have asked Google on “How to avoid travel scams abroad?”, chances are, you are reading this....
by Jan Sevilla | Jul 20, 2025 | EVERYTHING'S CONSIDERED
It’s been 130 years since the invention of cinema. No better way to celebrate the art of motion and emotion than paying homage to the Lumière brothers (their surname means “light”), who offered a new way of seeing that continues to illuminate the world of cinema as...
by Jan Sevilla | May 26, 2025 | HOTELS
by Jan Sevilla | Apr 18, 2025 | HOTELS
by Jan Sevilla | Feb 14, 2025 | EVERYTHING'S CONSIDERED
Time to explore these cities and take some cultured sips across the globe for an entirely new drinking experience. Let’s catch up over a drink. We hear this a lot. And there’s a good reason why friends and old flames say this so...
by Jan Sevilla | Jan 20, 2025 | EVERYTHING'S CONSIDERED
Travel is fun but can sometimes be overwhelming. So when feeling down, just look out for cats. These furry balls of calm are as therapeutic as your favorite dopamine fix. For many travelers, expats, and digital nomads, cats become an unexpected source of...
by Jan Sevilla | Nov 7, 2024 | AROUND THE WORLD
It’s the scruffiness that turns you off. It’s the realness that turns you on. ‘Berlin ist arm, aber sexy’ as the saying goes, which translates to ‘Berlin is poor but sexy’—and if there’s a neighborhood that best represents that idea, it’s Kreuzberg....
by Jan Sevilla | Jul 20, 2024 | ESCAPES
If there is a place that has a certain hold on everyone, it’s called hometown. Whether we love it or loathe it, and no matter how much we try to run away from it, it’s a place that we all keep coming back to – time and again. Just before the...
by Jan Sevilla | Mar 31, 2024 | HOTELS
by Jan Sevilla | Feb 28, 2024 | EVERYTHING'S CONSIDERED
Before you order your café crème or soufflé, know this: the French are not just obsessed with their food, they also use it as a language of expression. Long before “je t’aime” (I love you), there was “mon petit chou” (my little...
by Jan Sevilla | Dec 9, 2022 | HOTELS
