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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Managing yourself
    The pleasures and pitfalls of retirement

    A more leisurely pace means noticing nature and fresh adventures — but be prepared to lose frequent flyer status

    Montage of wine bottle and glasses, a plane, and a suit on a mannequin
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    A frequent flyer’s guide to the world’s finest airport lounges

    Not all lounges are created equally. The best have striking architectures, scenic views, sleeping areas, shoeshines — and hot baths

    Elevated view of an artfully curved seating bench in an airport, upholstered in bright orange padded fabric, wreathed in geometric shadows
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Streets ahead: Zürich’s astonishing public art scene

    With more than 1,300 outdoor works ranging from medieval to Modernist and multimedia, the Swiss city is a treat for art lovers

    Graffiti by street artist Harald Naegeli on the grey and yellow wall of an underground car park, including a fish-like figure
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Visual feast: an ode to Zürich’s iconic Kronenhalle restaurant

    The storied fine-dining destination — where the walls are filled with a world-class collection of Modernist masterpieces — celebrates its centenary next week

    Marc Chagall’s ‘Le coucher du soleil’, depicting a large red sun setting over a vivid blue sea, on the dark-wood-panelled walls of Zürich’s Kronenhalle restaurant
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Time to walk The Line, London’s groundbreaking art trail

    Tracing the Greenwich Meridian is an 8km waterside route that takes in an Antony Gormley ‘cloud’, Tracey Emin birds and an upside-down pylon

    Red, yellow, black and grey floral illustrations by the artist Madge Gill (1882-1961) reproduced on the side of a bridge crossing the River Lea in east London
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterWhere to stay in Zurich
    Baur au Lac: grandeur with a friendly face

    All unflashy luxury, this storied 19th-century icon is the epitome of traditional Swissness

    Large trees on a lawn in front of the neoclassical facade of Zürich’s Baur au Lac hotel
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterWhere to stay in Zurich
    The Dolder Grand: James Bond meets ‘The Magic Mountain’ . . . 

    . . . with a dusting of Disney, in a hotel perched over Zürich that marries traditional and contemporary to dazzling effect

    An aerial shot of Zürich’s Dolder Grand hotel: a white, turreted late-19th-century building flanked by two curving, modernist wings, sitting on a forested hill overlooking the city
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Markets watch: the magic of Zürich’s food, flower, flea and antique stalls

    A byword for abundance, quality, craft and cosmopolitanism, the city’s many regular street markets also tell Switzerland’s story

    Three photos of items to be found in Zürich’s street markets: vintage stopwatches, imitation roses and old books
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The lost world of Zürich’s émigrés: an insider guide

    For decades the city was a haven for artists, writers and composers in exile — as well as the occasional revolutionary. Here’s where to follow in their footsteps

  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Signs of the times: three graphic design tours of Zürich

    The city’s streets are a goldmine for fans of modernist fonts and graphic design. Just look around you — and up

    A triptych of images featuring Swiss typography on posters, in a museum and made up of large illuminated lettering
  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    City secrets: London’s best repair services

    The people to know in the UK capital who can make your well-loved clothes or accessories as good as new — or even reinvent them . . . 

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Polished performances: the world’s top shoeshining services

    Brushes with the very best in the business, from London and Lisbon to Geneva, Kinshasha, Rio, Tokyo . . . 

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Pressed to impress: the world’s best hotel laundry services

    Most make a decent job of it — but a handful of hotels turn it into a fine art

  • Monday, 27 September, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Rambles from the Ritz: three walks exploring the environs of a London landmark

    The streets and parks around one of the UK capital’s most storied hotels have their own fascinating tales to tell — of Georgian starchitects, midcentury modernists, military heritage and . . .  pelicans

  • Monday, 31 May, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Tales of the riverbank: a London staycation offers different perspectives of the Thames

    A city break in a historic houseboat on the water and a stay in a luxurious eyrie in the sky showcase the best of Tower Bridge and its environs

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Cream of the crop: three of central London’s finest farmers’ markets

    Delightful destinations in their own right — as rich in character and community spirit as they are in fresh, fabulous produce

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    FT SeriesThe therapeutic power of water
    Go with the London flow: six top walks along the Thames

    To explore the capital’s biggest liquid asset on foot is an adventure in architecture, culture and nature

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterPortrait of a park
    Portrait of a park: Green Park — an architectural and social history of London

    The elegant beauty of this much-loved space is complemented by its surrounding buildings with their many stories of the capital, from the 18th century to the present day

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