The highway from Quito became a road, then be a dirt path, then, only tire tracks. We moved back in time from the urban, to the small village, to the occasional hut into nature. Three hours from the capital of Ecuador we were inside a rainforest, to a cloud forest, to Mashpi Lodge. It is now a luxury retreat, built not as either a luxury lodge or a...

We were not meant to go to Boen Gaard because we were in the vicinity to cover the launch of Norway's first Underwater restaurant, Under. The restaurant was architected by Snohetta, in the southerly town of Lindesnes, Norway, and was exceptional, half on the water and half under, thus the name. When the Under launch was finished, a group of Portugu...

Usually, and in terms of human memory function, it is not the destination that is remembered as much as what happens within the destination, and often the journey toward the destination. In this Memoryscapes feature it was Casas do Coro, another time where we traveled to a place we knew nothing about. It was one of the exceptional offbeat, off boat...