Andrew Sessa

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Masterworks from France—and around the world—will go on view in a new home in the United Arab Emirates.

Earlier this month, I watched the sun rise upside-down over the pink-tinged cliffs of Isla Espíritu Santo, off the east coast of Baja California Sur. I wasn’t seeing some strange celestial happening, however. I was just in downward-facing dog, in the middle of an early-morning yoga class on the top deck of the Sea Bird, one of the adventure-ready ships from the cruise line Lindblad Expeditions. I’d come on board for one of the company’s first wellness voyages, which launched last month in collab…

The latest updates and upgrades to the pistes and resorts of the Alps suggest that the just-started European ski season could well register as one of the best in recent memory. Here, the need-to-know news from mountains in Switzerland, France, and Italy. SWITZERLAND Verbier Goes ‘Experimental’ Landing in an ultra-sportif destination known for lacking great hotels, the Parisian group behind the Experimental Cocktail Clubs—as well as some of the coolest hotels and restaurants in Europe—will this m…

Those who follow The Crown may have found themselves captivated by sweeping shots of the plush Royal Yacht Britannia. It served as the enviable setting for much of the start of the Netflix series’ second season, carrying the oft-pouty Prince Philip on several legs of a globe-spanning tour that included stops in Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. Few, however, may know that the real-life ship is now a museum in Scotland, anchored just outside of Edinburgh. After sailing the Windsors around the wo…

Disney’s new Lion King remake has, unsurprisingly, been a box office hit—it’s been the top movie in the U.S. the last two weekends running, with more than $360 million in ticket sales since it opened on July 18. Director Jon Favreau’s retelling of the 1994 animated classic uses cutting-edge CGI to bring the characters to life, not least among them Mufasa (once again voiced by James Earl Jones), Simba (Donald Glover), and Nala (none other than the Queen Bey herself). The job of recreating the fil…

The 2020 Olympics have been postponed until 2021, with new dates already announced. Now, the Games will take place from July 23 to August 8 in Tokyo. “Every Olympics is a chance to reveal the best of the host city and its people,” says Condé Nast Traveler travel specialist Amy Tadehara. She works with InsideJapan Tours, which has put together several itineraries for the Tokyo Olympics. “I am thrilled that the world will see true Japanese omotenashi: a generous spirit of selfless hospitality towa…

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You can nab a world-class education visiting these fine institutions. People from all across the globe come to Boston to get really smart, or wicked smaht, as the local lingo would have it. With one of the largest concentrations of colleges and universities in the world, and the academicians that populate them, the city impresses with its institutions of higher learning—and the stand-out museums of art, natural history, science, and much more, that go with it. The city’s central place in the ear…

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