The Hotel of Childhood Memories: An Old Italian Schoolhouse turned Charming B&B

Perhaps the last thing you want to do on holiday is “go back to school”, but I can assure you, this little schoolhouse nestled in the picturesque province of Vicenza, a 90 minute drive from Venice, is nothing like the school days you remember. No grumpy Maths teachers, no caféteria slop for lunch and certainly…

Borrow a Private Lighthouse Island for the Price of a Bed & Breakfast

A stone’s throw from a medieval sea fortress in the heart of Morlaix Bay in Brittany, France, on a little rocky island with a 19th century lighthouse and a white and powder-blue cottage, your Robinson Crusoe moment is waiting. The keys to the lighthouse keeper’s old cottage –and absolute sovereignty over your own island for the…

There are Hundreds of Islands for Sale around the World Right now, so let’s go Window Shopping

There’s always that one friend who says they’re going to quit the world and live on their own island someday – and you can pass this on to them in a moment – but first, take a moment to do a little daydreaming of your own. You wouldn’t believe how many islands are up for…

B&B of the Month: The Wander Inn

They’re the Renaissance women of the wild, wild west, and today Amie and Jolie Sikes are giving Messy Nessy a taste of their little haven in Round Top, Texas: The Wander Inn. It’s the stuff of southern fairytales, a bed & breakfast where the longhorns graze and the fireflies glow, where folks “can see the…

My Brooklyn Bronco B&B

It’s a (concrete) jungle out there when it comes to finding the perfect place to rest your head at the end of an action-packed day in New York City. Are you going to choose from the long list of twenty-story plaza hotels where every room is identical, or are you in search of something unique and off-beat? What I’m…

For Sale! The Antique Train Hotel

Maybe, just maybe, you might be the person who is perfect for this. I received an email tip from a reader with the subject line “I just discovered this place…”, (my favourite kind of email), pointing me in the direction of the Red Caboose Bed & Breakfast in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, USA. The unusual B&B…

Vacation in a Village of Giant Vases

This is a real hotel on the South Korean island of Yeongheung Island in the Yellow Sea that I happened upon, the way I usually do, while clicking through the depths of cyber space. But of course, the back alleys of the internet never just give you anything that easily… It all started by randomly stumbling across a single photograph of these giant…

Meet the New England Inkeeper Moving to Paris and Giving Away Her Charming Inn

Today I opened my inbox to find an email with the subject title, “From a great inn in Maine“. Sarah introduced herself with a picture. “This is me:” she wrote and posted a photograph underneath. Isn’t she cute? “I’m an innkeeper on the coast of Maine but I’m ready to leave this life and follow my girlfriend (she…

My Little Lighthouse Hotel

For anyone else who has ‘stay overnight at a lighthouse’ on their list of things to do, meet me at the Saugerties Lighthouse, a two hour drive from Manhattan in the Hudson Valley. Ditch the car and walk a half a mile up the peninsula where the lighthouse will finally emerge from the tall grass, cut…