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Additional reporting by Lara Grant Hay! How about a visit to the ‘ole barnyard for your next getaway? Hotels on working farms allow you to leave the fast-paced city life behind — at least for the weekend — and hit the country to hone your farming chops. But don’t worry; the farmtastic resorts that make…
The view from Agriturismo Fattoria Lavacchio. One of Italy’s most visited regions, Tuscany boasts an impressive variety of experiences. You can see masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture in Florence, do wine tastings in the vineyards of Chianti, admire breathtaking views of the rolling hills throughout the countryside, shop for antiques and traditional crafts in…
Our jobs as hotel investigators can be a lot like living in a real-life Pinterest board. While we certainly see plenty of properties that are not so nice, we see just as many resorts with grounds, common spaces, and rooms that are so drop-dead gorgeous, we want to recreate them in our own homes —…
With four seasons under its belt, and a fifth now airing in the U.K. and Ireland (we Americans will have to wait with baited breathe till 2015), Downton Abbey has been inspiring dreams of refined (at least on the surface), aristocratic lives of leisure for years now. Well, we can’t go back in time –…
We have travel experts visiting and revisiting destinations around the world every day, and we love when the fresh photos of gorgeous locales start to roll into our offices. Now that fall is approaching (we know, we hate to bring it up — but Labor Day coming and going kinda already did), we’re getting particularly…
It’s a dream vacation: Staying in an Italian farmhouse amid Tuscany’s rolling hills or Campania’s stunning plateaus, surrounded by rows of olive trees and sunflower blossoms. Italy was one of the first countries to successfully promote the agriturismo phenomenon, in which vacationers stay in a working farmhouse to truly immerse themselves in the culture and…