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Good Hotels: Worth The Wait

February 09, 2022 by David Coggins in Travel

It’s a complicated time to travel. But let’s focus on the positive. Here are some hotels worth dreaming about. Some grandeur. Some ambition. After all, you never know.

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February 09, 2022 /David Coggins
Good Hotels, France, Venice, Belize
Travel
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A SIMPLE PLAN: PACKING POST-MORTEM

July 27, 2021 by David Coggins in Travel

Unpacking after an overseas trip serves as an informal inventory of new acquisitions, smuggled cigars and wrinkled bad decisions. You nearly always realize you needed far, far less than you brought.

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July 27, 2021 /David Coggins
Packing, France
Travel
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FRENCH DISPATCH: BACK ON THE CONTINENT

July 22, 2021 by David Coggins in Travel

I’ve been to Paris just about every year for the last three decades. That’s shocking to realize—one of these days I’ll stop being surprised by the math that comes with aging. Arriving here after two years away was more moving than I expected.

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July 22, 2021 /David Coggins
France
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SARTORIAL CINEMA: LA COLLECTIONNEUSE

August 07, 2019 by David Coggins in Style

August is the perfect time for an Éric Rohmer film. They unfold in relaxed settings—lakeside resorts, borrowed, barely furnished country houses, beach towns. The characters are at leisure and, since they’re French, they tend to discuss their theories of love and morality.

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August 07, 2019 /David Coggins
Sartorial Cinema, Style, Film, France
Style
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