For once, having champagne tastes on a beer budget didn’t feel like a problem.
Melissa Twigg is London-based freelance journalist writing for publications including The Guardian, The Independent, Vogue, The Business of Fashion, The South China Morning Post, The Sunday Times, Marie Claire and CNN, among others.
WANNA GET AWAY?
Spare a Dime?
Faced with an unprecedented calamity, the most luxurious Paris hotels are doing the unthinkable—hustling for French coin.
X NEVER, EVER MARKS THE SPOT
According to Ethiopian lore, the Ark of the Covenant is hidden in a church in Aksum–a small city in the northern highlands–and guarded by a single monk.
MIRAGE
While I would like to go to Saudi again one day and see those famous rose-gold ruins or swim in the Red Sea, I hope it would be to a different incarnation of the country.