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5 New Hotels Where the Past Meets the Present

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Nowadays you can check into a 17th-century former soap factory on the French Riviera, or part of the Old War Office in London, or a Renaissance-palazzo-style building that was once a bank in New York. Strategic planning taking place nowadays involves when to book an appointment at the hotel’s spa, which spans four floors.

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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

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It was the Galápagos where Darwin, according to popular legend, “discovered” natural selection — though, in reality, it was only later in London that he grasped the significance of the finches and other animals he collected there. Our first stop, though, wasn’t on the map: an unfinished housing subdivision on the southeast tip of Santiago.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

Some days we had wraps at Vida e caffe , an African chain; others, we went to the Purple Café in Osu, a hip neighborhood to the east of our hotel. We were pleased to find that the double room we had booked came with a sitting room, and that the staff was some of the kindest that we encountered in all Ghana.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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