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Feb 2010
Three Perfect Days: Montreal
Once a remote fur-trading post, Montreal is now a thriving modern city brimming with Old World charm.
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Jan 2010
Three Perfect Days: Sonoma
Napa’s rugged little sister in Northern California is quickly becoming the next big thing, thanks to a laid-back attitude and a thriving foodie scene. Oh, and the wine’s pretty good, too.
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Dec 2009
Three Perfect Days: Riviera Maya
With pristine beaches, outdoor adventure and a splash of ancient history, it’s no wonder this area became a hit with tourists. Now that tourism has slowed, it’s the perfect time to pay a visit.
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Nov 2009
Three Perfect Days: New Orleans
Reborn after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still a city with amazing food and music, quirky shops and bars, beautiful architecture and a true sense of history.
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Oct 2009
Three Perfect Days: Shanghai
A century ago, the largest city in China buzzed with art, architecture and fashion. Today, it’s returning to its former glory—and producing some darn fine soup dumplings, too.
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Sep 2009
Three Perfect Days: Budapest
For centuries a tumultuous crossroads of art, architecture, invasion and rebellion, the bohemian capital of Hungary has finally found serenity. But it’s still got a maverick soul.
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Aug 2009
3 Perfect Days Victoria, B.C.
With a hint of Victorian refinement, a strong Native American flavor and a scenic mountain range, the City of Gardens has all the ingredients of a tourist haven—but don’t worry, it’s not one yet.
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Jul 2009
Three Perfect Days, Sydney
In the other city by the bay, surfers, scenesters and highbrow culture mavens all stay happily occupied. Sydneysiders, it turns out, are all of the above.
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Jun 2009
Three Perfect Days, San Diego
This sunny surf town offers 1920s Americana, sophisticated nightspots and laid-back California cool. Oh, and there’s a little zoo you might want to check out.
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May 2009
Three Perfect Days, Moscow
By day, Moscow is a city of historic cathedrals, vibrant squares and imposing statues. By night, it’s a bling-filled circus maximus of designer-clad clubbers lining up to get into exclusive venues featuring acrobats, synchronized swimmers and other attractions.
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Apr 2009
Three Perfect Days, Buenos Aires, Argentina
After visiting Buenos Aires in March 1925, Albert Einstein offered one of his less celebrated theories. The Argentine capital, he declared, was “a comfortable city, but rather boring.” (Some of us think theoretical physics is boring—so perhaps it really is all relative.) In any case, few modern visitors would share Einstein’s assessment. The city, which is often described— and rightly so—as the most European in Latin America, is admittedly a little rough around the edges. But boring? Not on your life.
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Mar 2009
Three Perfect Days, Washington DC
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, it’s hard to deny that excitement has gripped Washington, D.C. As the locals well know, a changeover of administration always brings a new electricity to what is, after all a “company town,” and the city always seems to puts on its best face to welcome the newcomers and to send off the old guard. Visitors to the city these days will find more choices than ever, from iconic buildings, monuments and museums to world-class restaurants, shops and historic neighborhoods, not to mention nature walks along the leafy banks of the Potomac River. So politics aside, there has never been a better time to take in the nation’s capital.
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Feb 2009
Three Perfect Days, Singapore
Cautiously, cleverly, Singapore is shrugging off the stodgy mantle it’s worn for decades and morphing into a cool, even chic, place to live it up in Asia. Forget the old jokes about chewing gum and caning. The ambitious city-state is wooing the global glitterati with flourishes like the world’s first Formula One night race and a sparkling new casino resort in the heart of the city. This is a place for good food and a colourful cultural mix, heavily Asian but with an increasingly international zest as well.
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Jan 2009
Three Perfect Days, Dubai United Arab Emirates
Don your darkest shades and prepare to be dazzled by Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates. And it’s not just the glaring desert light or gleaming skyscrapers. Sure, you’ve seen the glossy images in the media: swish shopping malls, towering construction, and manmade palm-shaped islands (visible from outer space). But this Arabian Gulf metropolis is much more than a string of superlatives. Literally and metaphorically at the crossroads between East and West, the fastest-growing city on earth has skyrocketed from somnolent fishing village to a hot spot of global trade, transport, and finance.
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Dec 2008
Three Perfect Days, Denver Colorado
Set in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains and long overshadowed by the high-profile ski towns located within “them thar hills,” the Mile High City of Denver is a formidable—and contemporary— destination in its own right. Denver’s savvy restaurants, state-of-the-art sporting venues, and booming art and cultural scene are making regular appearances on national best-of lists. In addition to having a thriving downtown and hip historic districts like LoDo, Denver is showing its diversity in up-and-coming neighborhoods like Highlands and the ArtDistrict on Santa Fe. A strong focus on sustainability means the city is green even in winter. And you’ll enjoy plenty of the white stuff during your three days, with one fast-track train trip up to city-owned Winter Park Resort, a fun destination for skiers and nonskiers alike.
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Nov 2008
Three Perfect Days, Melbourne, Australia
MELBOURNE HAS A REPUTATION as a buttoned-down town, but arrive on the first Tuesday in November and you might think you’ve stumbled into the Mad Hatter’s tea party. Businesses brandish “closed” signs; blokes don suits and colourful ties; women parade a rainbow whirl of hats, fascinators, and other head-gear; and a general mood of silliness prevails. This is Melbourne Cup Day, the culmination of an annual horseracing carnival, when even those who can’t tell blinkers from bookmakers feel compelled to have “a flutter,” or a bet.
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Oct 2008
Three Perfect Days, Oahu, Hawaii
ISLANDS ARE LIKE FRIENDS. They come into your life just when you need them. Each is different, offering different gifts. Meet O‘ahu, the friend that goes dancing, is sophisticated and urbane, yet dresses up in gaudy tangerine sunsets accessorized with coconut palms and rainbows. O‘ahu is paradise on speed dial, with a hundred white-sand beaches, including the world’s dream machine: magical, manic Waikiki. The island claims two mountain ranges, the Ko‘olau and Waianae, as well as national, state, and county parks crammed with legend, waterfalls, history, and hiking trails.
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Sep 2008
Three Perfect Days, Glacier National Park
FOR EONS, ICE BLANKETED ALL but the highest summits of what is now Glacier National Park in Montana. Under writhing ice floes, mountains took shape. Glaciers gnawed gaping valleys, etched rocks, piled up long ridges of rubble, and left large turquoise-blue lakes on the landscape. Since the time that ancient ice birthed the park’s landforms, several miniature ice ages have come and gone. They scooped out the nooks with cirques and hanging valleys. More recently, Glacier Park has sung a different tune. In the late 1800s, when explorer George Bird Grinnell first laid eyes on the Continental Divide, a ridge that the Blackfeet called the Backbone of the World, he lobbied for its preservation. By the time Congress designated Glacier as the nation’s 10th national park in 1910, the 150 pockets of ice from Grinnell’s day had begun to thaw into ponds.
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Aug 2008
Three Perfect Days, Beijing
THE SEAT OF EMPERORS, the showpiece of a revolution, and now—reinvented once again—Beijing is the happening 21st-century capital of the fastest-changing country on earth. What’s new: Snazzy cars have replaced bicycles; suits are designer, not Mao; restaurants are luxe; and the architecture? Mind-blowingly innovative. But some things haven’t changed. The city still has the stately, larger-than-life demeanor that comes from centuries of presiding over the Middle Kingdom, and, along with it, a palpable sense of history.
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Jul 2008
Three Perfect Days, Seattle
SEATTLE SUMMERS ARE AS NEAR perfection as you can get this side of Paradise. Yes, fall, winter, and spring can be gray and rainy; that’s why Seattle is the caffeine capital of the universe. But July is sublime. Who needs coffee with temperatures in the 70s and 80s and a golden sun shining 16 hours a day? To the east and the west, the city is bound by water—Lake Washington and the Puget Sound, respectively—and mountains—the Cascades and the Olympics— that constantly woo you outdoors. In the middle is a city with a quirky sense of humor (exhibit A: the Space Needle), a vibrant downtown, and a serious focus on art of all kinds: performing, visual, culinary, public, and that provided by nature. With a robin’s egg–blue sky and the white triangles of sailboats skimming across the glittering water, Seattle pulls out all the stops to show you a good time and a world-renowned sense of place.
Three Perfect Days
- Three Perfect Days, Washington DC
- Three Perfect Days, New York City
- Three Perfect Days, London
- Three Perfect Days, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Three Perfect Days, Paris, France
- Three Perfect Days, San Diego
- Three Perfect Days, Rome, Italy
- Three Perfect Days, Seattle
- Three Perfect Days, Oahu, Hawaii
- Three Perfect Days, Tokyo
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