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Two of Europe's most celebrated lakeside hotels have paired up for the summer. Il Sereno on Lake Como and the Kulm Hotel above Lake St. Moritz have built a cross-border drive that carries guests from Italian shorelines into the Swiss Alps, with waterfront suites, Michelin-starred dining under Raffaele Lenzi, and a route scored by Kulm's own Arman Naféei. Il Sereno anchors one end of a journey shaped around collectors and their cars
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Hôtel Lou Pinet has reopened for the season, bringing its bohemian Saint-Tropez charm back to life just steps from Place des Lices. This summer, the hotel welcomes a new sculpture residency by Laurent Dufour with gallery Aurélien Gendras, alongside refreshed treatments at the Lou Pinet Spa featuring Tata Harper and the Head Spa by Leonor Greyl. Dining spans La Terrasse and Beefbar, while rooms feature Garnier Thiébaut linens and Diptyque amenities, designed by Charles Zana throughout
Fifty supercars. Eight days. Eight countries. The Cannon Run's Mega Run 26 fired up at a stately home in Kent and blasted all the way to the Adriatic, taking in German autobahns, the Grossglockner High Alpine Road and Croatia's coastal highways along the way. There were Lamborghinis, Ferraris, McLarens, gala dinners, a polite run-in with the Croatian police and a 700bhp Lister-tuned Jaguar with an exhaust you could hear from the next valley. Join us on an automotive adventure of a lifetime.
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We have eaten steak in a great many places, across a great many cities, and in a great many formats. Nothing prepared us for COTE Las Vegas. The world's only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse, and the fourth outpost of Simon Kim's vision, delivered an evening so far beyond our expectations that we left struggling to identify a superlative adequate to the occasion. We visited for a celebration. It became, by unanimous agreement around the table, one of the best meals we ever had.
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No diesel, no fuel tanks, no engine room, and not a comfort lost along the way. Zero, the 68.9-metre ketch from Vitters, Vripack and Dykstra Naval Architects, runs on sun, wind and the water beneath her hull, cruising for two full weeks without a single stop to recharge. Better still, every calculation and design behind her is being shared for free, turning one bold boat into an open door for the whole industry