Travel
Places worth the journey, written with the same care as everything else in this magazine. Not comprehensive. Not a directory. A considered edit of the places we have found genuinely worth your time.

An empress’s folly that became the most glamorous resort in France, and then reinvented itself as the birthplace of European surfing.
With the chocolate-and-cathedral city of Bayonne and the long surf beaches of Anglet on either side, this stretch of Atlantic coast is one of the most complete corners of France.




