There was a really, really hilarious moment at this year's annual Luxury Bloc, held as always in Prague. This is the seventh annual event and, is it possible to say it? It was better than ever. Okay.

There were just over a hundred invited travel advisors from 14 countries at the 2026 Luxury Bloc in Prague, organized, as always, by Gabriela Markova, with the strong support of the event's co-founder, her husband Petr Marek, and her growing team. Her business is growing, indeed.

Summer in Dubai is humid and boiling, however there’s nothing a silver champagne bucket can’t fix.

To New York. New York, the center of the universe, the hum and the noise, and the cheeriness, and the cars looping their way around, jerking up and down, thanks to bumps in the road, and ceaseless trying to get somewhere very fast.

Luigi Romanielli epitomises Italian charm. Were he a famous tenor every opera-addict worldwide would swoon, were he an Uber driver every client would tip him thousandfold.

Before Girlahead leaves town, must pay a quickie to New York’s saucy-lux hotel, Alan Faena’s eponymous 120-key downtown Faena New York.

To Maine. Girlahead had been to that marvellous state, entering it from New Hampshire in the south, just to get as far as Kennebunkport. This time was going to be different. It was a four-day tourist trip.

The Inn at Hastings Park is the luxury Relais & Chateaux inn in historic Lexington MA that Trisha Pérez Kennealy built - well, not physically, but effectively. This incredibly extroverted and talented Puerto Rican-American decided long before she was a well-established investment banker that she wanted to have her own restaurant and hotel.

It is well worthwhile while staying at The Inn in Hastings Park to beg, borrow or steal bicycles. There seem to be more green-painted cycle roads around here than anywhere else in USA. You can certainly go all the seven miles to Harvard from Lexington.