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A Six-Bed Retreat in South Africa’s Wine Country $1.7 MILLION (25 MILLION SOUTH AFRICAN RAND) This six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath house is in Constantia, a leafy suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, in the foothills of Table Mountain National Park, near the Atlantic coast. Set in the Constantia Valley, the suburb offers easy access to both Cape […]

Shiloh, the 9-year-old beagle I’ve had for over a year, is not a service dog. A lot of people make that assumption, but she is actually an emotional support dog. That means you might find that looking into her big doe eyes makes you feel a little better. But she makes it possible for me

I don’t see how it’s possible to rack up frequent-flier points without racking up mishaps too. There will inevitably be delayed flights, bad meals, drivers who take the long way around town, lost scarves or hours spent wandering in a jet-lagged daze because your room’s not ready. Despite these annoyances — all of which I

If you want a side of chills to go along with your entree this Halloween, you’ve come to the right place. The following establishments remind us that it’s not just the food and service that make for a great dining experience; it’s the story behind the restaurant. Sometimes a clever starter or impeccable main isn’t

Derby Arboretum Derby Arboretum may be the most modest stop on Olmsted’s itinerary, an 11-acre neighborhood park surrounded by middle-class brick houses in the city of Derby, less than an hour’s drive north of Birmingham. Built in 1840 by a wealthy local mill owner, the arboretum nonetheless holds an important title: the first public park

The grandfather of a child who fell to her death as he held her near a window on a cruise ship has been charged with negligent homicide, the Puerto Rico Department of Justice announced on Monday. On July 7, the man, Salvatore Anello, dropped his 19-month-old granddaughter, Chloe Wiegand, from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship

For a place with so much history — decades of wartime and occupation have left their scars — Ho Chi Minh City (still often referred to as Saigon) feels surprisingly new. The metropolis is constantly reinventing itself, and when you consider that the U.S. trade embargo was lifted only 25 years ago, and that the majority

WASHINGTON — In 2016, Andrew Knowlton, then the restaurant editor of Bon Appétit, proposed that the magazine name Washington its restaurant city of the year. It was a difficult argument to make, even to the magazine’s editor, Adam Rapoport, a Washington native. “He laughed,” Mr. Knowlton recalled. “Then he told me to get out of

Our travel tips column has shown you how to pack (edit ruthlessly, use packing cubes) and how to take vacation photos (remember to take advantage of the golden hour). But which outfits both travel effortlessly and make for enviable posts on social media? The answer combines color coordination, personal style, destination mindfulness and knowing what

I should mention, Karim was speaking to me in fluent Spanish, something he just “picked up” by chatting to tourists. He also spoke to me at length about the collapse of Thomas Cook and what it means for tourism in Tunisia. (Like in other places popular with package-deal tourists, it’s bad news.) At one point,