Thrillist • 13th December 2020

Step Into Seoul’s Coolest Hidden Cocktail Dens

Seoul takes concept bars and speakeasies to a whole new level.

Sunday Times Travel Magazine • 15th November 2020

Berlin Shopping Guide

As Europe’s bullseye for artsy types, Berlin does a fine line in independent design — often inspired by sustainability and club culture.

Thrillist • 31st October 2020

Berlin Is a Magnet for Artistic Expats. Here’s How to Make It Your New Home.

Moving Party: A guide to moving to Berlin.

thrillist • 12th May 2020

How a Simple Scent Can Transport You Around the World

How fragrance can be a handy cure for travel withdrawal right now.

thrillist • 14th April 2020

These Finnish Artists Thrive in Total Isolation. Here’s How You Can Too.

Adjusting to life at home, Americans are taking a cue from snowy, secluded Finland.

thrillist • 2nd April 2020

Berlin's Legendary Club Scene Goes Digital To Keep The Beat Alive

An everyday journey across Berlin is set to a pulsing score: you'll hear electronic basslines in supermarkets, convenience stores (we call them spätis), and blaring from speakers on bicycles or in parks. You'll be minding your business one minute and suddenly -- boom! -- you're in a rave.

thrillist • 6th March 2020

Art, Food, and Beach Life Have Catapulted This South African City to Must-Visit Status

After several visits to this South African city over the last few years, if there’s one thing I’ve realized it’s that there’s always another natural wonder or whoa panorama around the corner in Cape Town-- and another South African out-hiking me, cracking me up, or drinking me under the table.

thrillist • 30th January 2020

How to Crush a Weeklong Trip to Dubai, the City of the Future

Dubai is THE city of the future, a mega-sized metropolis glimmering with sky-high architectural feats, driverless trains, and dizzying light shows.

thrillist • 30th January 2020

The Perfect 3 Days in Tallinn, Europe’s Fast-Rising Capital of Cool

Long underestimated as just another gray, post-Soviet harbor city, Tallinn’s quickly growing into one of Europe’s cool creative capitals, right up there with Berlin and Helsinki.

The Infatuation • 27th January 2020

The 27 Best Places To Eat & Drink In Berlin - Berlin

A neighborhood guide to Berlin’s best places to eat and drink.

Lonely Planet • 23rd October 2019

Ethical wildlife encounters in Finland

Most of Finland is blanketed in a dense, wild forest, providing habitats for Europe's most diverse and magnificent species. The country has even been named the world’s best destination for wildlife travel by the Global Wildlife Travel Index.

thrillist • 21st May 2019

Amsterdam's Red Light District is About to Change. Here's How Sex Workers Feel About It

Window prostitution has been practiced throughout the Netherlands since the end of the 19th century, but the city's recent ban on red-light tours is the first of its kind.

The Guardian • 9th May 2019

Berlin anti-gentrification activists fight to keep ... the local Aldi

The residents of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district have become renowned for their impassioned clashes against capitalism. Now, they’ve stepped up to defend an unexpected establishment: the local branch of Aldi, a supermarket with a €50bn annual turnover.

Scoot • 1st May 2019

A Cup Runneth Over

First planted by French colonists, Lao coffee is brewing up a contemporary scene of third-wave cafés in Vientiane. Barbara Woolsey takes a sip of the Lao coffee culture and finds what’s good in the brew.

Reuters • 5th April 2019

Germany's new Bauhaus museum set for interactive opening

The new Bauhaus museum opens its doors to the public for the first time in the east German city of Weimar on Saturday after three years of construction, giving admirers of the world-famous “form follows function” aesthetic a new place of pilgrimage.

thrillist • 15th January 2019

The 19 Best Places for a Big Trip in 2019

Thrillist's 2019 destination list, curated by contributors. My submissions: Boracay, Seoul, Leipzig, and Yala National Park in Sri Lanka.

Footprints (Minor Hotels) • 14th December 2018

Portugal in its Prime

Just seven years ago, the coastal country was on the cusp of a debilitating debt crisis – local businesses shuttered, young professionals fled. But a determined economic turnaround later, Portuguese shores are once again riding a wave of resurgence, from the capital Lisbon to the southernmost banks of the Algarve.

Scoot Magazine • 1st December 2018

Bazaar Love Triangle

With hundreds of shopping and street food stands laid out in airy expanse, Greenway Night Market in Hat Yai outdoes other Thai markets. Barbara Woolsey navigates the ins and outs of this hip and happening commercial trading ground.

The Telegraph • 22nd April 2018

Sliver of Germany's mighty gold stash goes on show for the first time

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, has opened an exhibition of its hefty gold reserves after recalling half of its bullion from foreign vaults.

thrillist • 10th April 2018

Iceland's Greatest Natural Wonders That Tourists Overlook

Iceland is Mother Nature’s favorite plaything. This little island nation dangling from the Arctic Circle, with its ethereal geothermal terrain, is always finding new ways to stun.