T’s winter travel issue explores the romantic allure of locations both near and far. We start in Cape Town, where one local attempts to woo his New York girlfriend by showing her just how “Brooklyn” the South African city really is. We travel to the Swiss ski town of Gstaad, where a batch of newly arrived billionaires are threatening to disturb the idyllic village’s sense of Old World refinement (at least according to its longtime residents). And in Bhutan, the T critic at large Jody Rosen finds a population, led by the bike-loving royal family, cycling toward that dreamiest of notions — the pursuit of happiness. Elsewhere, the soccer and fashion scion Brooklyn Beckham and the teenage model Jean Campbell capture the carefree splendor of youth on the shores of Montauk; a pair of mystery novelists look for inspiration, and a bit of mischief, aboard the legendary Orient Express; the London-based author and T critic at large Andrew O’Hagan hunkers down at Claridge’s while making a case for the staycation; and one of the food world’s most rapidly improving realms, the airport restaurant, gets the “By the Numbers” treatment. See more stories from this issue >>
