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I’m coming to you today from the breakfast room at the Hotel Rochechouart in Paris, an icon of Paris’s Art Deco heyday that has been lovingly restored. Yesterday, my sunset view made it hard to leave the bed—Sacre Coeur and the tops of Montmartre’s towering apartment buildings positively glowing outside my window. I’ll be writing about it more, as well as my visit to one of the best museum re-imaginings I’ve been to in recent memory–the newly renovated Musee de Cluny, which focused on the Middle Ages.

I woke up this morning to learn of yet another hiker dying in the Grand Canyon, this time trying to do a 15 mile hike to the river and back. A grim reminder to take much care in planning long hikes while enjoying our national parks.

This week our lead feature comes from our It’s Still a Big World series on underrated destinations. Brandon Withrow visited the Canadian city of Hamilton and fell in love–with its waterfalls, varied neighborhoods, and outdoors activities. I’d never considered popping by before, but now I just might!

Definitely check out our Eat Sheet guide to Berlin, Europe’s naughtiest of cities that has also become perhaps its greatest melting pot. Plus, don’t miss Sheryl Nance-Nash on the Black women trailblazing their way into the diving world and Nick Hilden on ways to explore Vietnam that touch on the fading memories of the Vietnam War.

— William O’Connor, Travel Editor

The Waterfall Capital of the World Is Your Next Great Lakes Adventure

It’s a city with lush outdoor green spaces, posh night spots, breakfast favorites, and colorful dive bars. It’s The Ambitious City, but it’s also a small town in a big city.

Our Tips on Where to Eat in Berlin, Germany

When it comes to food, this may be the most exciting and international city in Europe.

These Black Women Are Making Their Mark in the Diving World

Black women divers are a rarity, but some are working to change that.

From My Lai to Cave Hospitals—What to See in Vietnam

Vietnam is very much a country attempting to march forward and away from its troubled past. But the past is everywhere.

“It was Donald Duck who first introduced me to the Himalayas. Just as my travels to Central Asia and all the countries ending in ‘stan’ were perhaps inspired by Donald’s many escapades in Farawaystan, the seeds for my current expedition had been sown by Carl Barks.”

– in her new book, High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Erika Fatland explains how the iconic cartoon character got her interested in an overlooked part of the world.

The Ultimate Slip-On Shoe for the Frequent Traveler

It’s funny when a shoe manufacturer uses the word “buttery” to describe the comfort and feel of their product. I don’t think of walking on butter as all that comforting—more like a squishy mess. In a shocking twist, however, that’s exactly how the Samuel Hubbard Frequent Traveler Slip-On feels. After a full week of wearing them, both around the office and on a few hikes in cold weather, it’s a shoe that actually feels soft as butter.

The name Frequent Traveler comes from the fact that you can slip them off and on easily during a security check at the airport. I’ve done that many times, and it makes you feel like a boss being able to quickly speed through the line without any fuss.

— Scouted by John Brandon

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All too often, we reduce our built environment to its functional abilities and its beauty. But sometimes these spaces give us more–they allow us to tap into memories, bringing forth some souvenir of the past. That, at least, is how the photographer Brad Walls sees pools. For Walls, “they can evoke the smell of [his] favorite food, or resurrect memories of [his] holidays.” It’s fitting, then, that the latest selection for Just Booked, our series on gorgeous new travel-related coffee table books is his new tome, Pools From Above, published by Rizzoli.

Over the course of 89 photographs, Walls introduces us to pools from Australia, Bali, Mexico, Florida, and Southern California. Some are painfully lux–the camera’s gaze here is sometimes surreptitious, sometimes gawking. Other pools have stray leaves carelessly floating, and one has geometric tilework so dizzying you’ll have to blink a couple times.

The book is a light one–less than 200 pages–but packs a wanderlust punch. Flipping through, you’ll be hard pressed not to daydream about a sleek pool, perhaps overlooking a beach on the Pacific Ocean.

Don’t miss our other selections for our series on gorgeous travel-related coffee table books, Just Booked.

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