Hip in the City
Trending Maboneng, a downtown enclave with galleries, restaurants, cafés, bookstores and designer shops, is Johannesburg’s hip neighborhood. On Albrecht Street, opposite the Museum of African Design (MOAD), the imposing Cosmopolitan, built in 1899 and now newly refurbished, offers exclusive shopping. After that, a cup of Ubuntu or Teranga, luxury tea grown on African soil, will go down a treat at the Yswara Tea Room (photo).
The Great Himalaya Trail, Silk Road, Way of St. Jacob: The guidebook 500 Walks covers the oldest long-distance trails and walks around the world. An ideal companion for all avid hikers, it provides detailed routes and plenty of entertaining facts.
Re- and Upcycling are in style. Catch these iconic sandals at Sustainable Thinking (until March 8, 2020) at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence.
Makeup, platform boots, flames: Kiss have a reputation of outrageous outfits and shows. In the 46 years they’ve been together, the US megastars have sold over 1000 million albums. Now they’re on the road for their (allegedly) final tour, and in Germany from May 27.