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Some people think more is less but we like to differ.

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Sure it's easy to contact hotels, bars and restaurants and put together a story but how would that really help you? At Travel & Lust we ensure that only personal experiences with all of the places visited are published, so that you can rest assure that you get a real insight and up-to-date account. Our audience is all about well presented qualitative information, in which case less is sometimes more. We take our time sourcing places, creating an attractive shortlist that will not only appeal to our readers but will also help them. Added Value

Travel & Lust is targeted at boutique travel, not just luxury and we help readers attain this on different budgets. A hotel may not be the most luxurious but may be more affordable and come with lots of special touches that enhance a guest’s stay, it is this type of value and service that we will always point out whilst on our travels.

We’ve been quieter here than we’d like.The stories haven’t stopped: hotels we’ve stayed in, places on our list, cities t...
14/10/2026

We’ve been quieter here than we’d like.

The stories haven’t stopped: hotels we’ve stayed in, places on our list, cities that rewarded a slower look.

They just haven’t always made it here.
So we’re showing up more often, sharing what’s on the site and what we’re looking forward to. Same independent places, same slow pace. Just more of them, more regularly.

NOTES | The hospitality did as much work as the scenery. Music followed us everywhere, out of doorways, car windows, a b...
14/09/2026

NOTES | The hospitality did as much work as the scenery. Music followed us everywhere, out of doorways, car windows, a beach bar as the sun went down, and it was never long before someone was telling us to slow down, stay a while, not worry about whatever had just gone slightly wrong.

Sal gave us salt mines at Pedra de Lume, a taxi driver who took us up above Espargos to see where the island actually lives, a proper tourist stop at Lemon Shark Bay that earned its reputation regardless, and a cachupa at Art Kafé we’re still thinking about. São Vicente gave us Mindelo’s markets, Cesária Évora’s presence unmissable around town, and a fisherman’s lunch in Calhau too large to finish.

Two islands out of ten, nine of them inhabited, in a country most people have only just started paying attention to.

Full story on the site.

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Reminiscing over the crispy octopus brioche at Can Bo, tucked inside Grand Hotel Central in Barcelona. The dry aged beef...
13/09/2026

Reminiscing over the crispy octopus brioche at Can Bo, tucked inside Grand Hotel Central in Barcelona. The dry aged beef meatballs with shoestring fries are just as hard to forget, and the cuttlefish, romesco underneath, herb oil across the top, has stayed with us too.

Oliver Peña and Lorenzo Cavazzoni weave Spanish tradition with a light Italian hand. The w**e list backs it up: over 150 bottles, curated by sommelier Amador Marín, including a Sangiovese from Castello Tricerchi.

Still thinking about that brioche.

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MUSINGS | Camogli, late summer light. Pastel façades stack up behind Bagni Lido, the pebble beach quiet enough in Septem...
11/09/2026

MUSINGS | Camogli, late summer light. Pastel façades stack up behind Bagni Lido, the pebble beach quiet enough in September to feel like a local secret rather than a queue.

The sea here shifts from slate to turquoise within a few metres, no filter required. Grab a table on the terrace, order something cold, and watch the fishing boats work the bay behind you.

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MUSINGS | Santa Maria’s streets do the colour work for you: pink and cobalt facades, a palm leaning hard into the frame,...
01/09/2026

MUSINGS | Santa Maria’s streets do the colour work for you: pink and cobalt facades, a palm leaning hard into the frame, bicycles left wherever their owners stopped needing them. Bar Quintalona keeps its door open to the road, no fuss about it. This is Sal at its most unbothered pace.

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NOTES | Gdańsk is beautiful in the obvious ways. Colourful facades, Gothic spires, a river that moves quietly through th...
30/08/2026

NOTES | Gdańsk is beautiful in the obvious ways. Colourful facades, Gothic spires, a river that moves quietly through the centre. But spend a little longer and the city reveals something else entirely: shipyard cranes, amber dealers on Mariacka, natural w**e bars in Dolne Miasto and one of the most unexpected creative spaces in Poland, built beneath the old cranes of the former shipyard.

The Baltic is never far. New on the site — link in bio.

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NOTES | Berat wears its name well. Ottoman houses climb the hillside in tiers, each window catching the light differentl...
30/08/2026

NOTES | Berat wears its name well. Ottoman houses climb the hillside in tiers, each window catching the light differently by the hour, and above it all, the castle keeps watch the way it has for centuries.

Down in the old town, life moves at cobblestone pace: terrace lunches under white umbrellas, doorways hung with hand-woven kilims and birdcages, alleyways that lead nowhere in particular and everywhere worth going.

It’s the kind of place that rewards slowness. Stay a little longer than planned.

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NOTES | East London makes a good base for family days that don’t feel like a checklist. Town Hall Hotel’s domed lobby, a...
29/08/2026

NOTES | East London makes a good base for family days that don’t feel like a checklist. Town Hall Hotel’s domed lobby, all marble and reclaimed grandeur, sits a short ride from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where the Orbit’s slide sends anyone brave enough looping through its own steel frame.

For something calmer, Greenwich Park unrolls green and wide toward the Observatory, with the whole city laid out below it. And for lunch, The Culpeper in Spitalfields does it properly: a working rooftop garden, a menu that changes with what’s growing, and enough floors to suit however loud the table gets.

Town Hall Hotel | East London

Link in bio.

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BLACK BOOK | Lepogo Lodges holds two properties deep in the Lapalala Wilderness, each with its own read on the same land...
22/08/2026

BLACK BOOK | Lepogo Lodges holds two properties deep in the Lapalala Wilderness, each with its own read on the same land. Melote House leans into carbon-neutral design and total privacy; Noka Camp, one of South Africa’s few fully non-profit safari lodges, leans into the wild, with sky beds suspended over the ravine on glass floors.

Between them: 50,000 malaria-free hectares, home to the big five, and a silence that holds even before the sun’s fully up.

Wake early enough and the wilderness does the introducing itself: elephant tracks in the sand before breakfast, a silence that actually holds.

🔗 in bio.

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HOTEL BED SERIES | On a street said to have once been home to Gauguin and Modigliani, Hôtel des Académies et des Arts tu...
16/08/2026

HOTEL BED SERIES | On a street said to have once been home to Gauguin and Modigliani, Hôtel des Académies et des Arts turns the whole building into something closer to a working studio than a hotel. In this room: a curved oak headboard, a gallery wall built slowly rather than styled all at once, and a hand-plastered surface dotted with something between decoration and code.

It rewards staying in rather than rushing out. Twenty rooms total, each one different, all of them tucked into Montparnasse’s old artistic quarter.

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Part of our ongoing Hotel Bed Series. More boutique stays on the blog. Link in bio.

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