The Florida island Hemingway called ‘the best place I’ve ever been’
Nearer to Havana than Miami, Key West’s vibe is famously chill.
- by Amelia Lester
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Why tourists are converging on Europe’s second-oldest capital city
The past is never far away in Portugal’s resurgent capital – Lisbon embraced shabby chic long before it became fashionable.
- by Amelia Lester
From beautiful landscapes to psychedelic fun houses: Santa Fe’s surprises
New Mexico’s arty desert vibes, West Virginia’s rapids, Canada’s northern lights: North America’s travel hits from Good Weekend’s 2023 Dream Destinations issue.
- by Craig Tansley, Callan Boys, Amelia Lester, Julie Miller, Kerry van der Jagt, Konrad Marshall and Rob McFarland
Ex-FBI boss James Comey still has a passion for sentences – now, as a novelist
From sending Martha Stewart and mobsters to jail, to working for Obama and Trump, to becoming America’s “most hated” man ...Next stop: fiction writing.
- by Amelia Lester
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Nappies, hefty mortgages, little job security: What being 40 means today
Life may begin at 40, but it’s a very different one to previous generations.
- by Amelia Lester
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We went to Australia’s ‘most dangerous playground’ – and my kids loved it
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a society by how it lets its children horse around.
- by Amelia Lester
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A remedy to stop me lying awake? Let me sleep on it
Where can you turn when counting sheep, meditation apps and CBD remedies no longer send you to the land of nod?
- by Amelia Lester
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So much at stake: Why I dragged my kids along when voting in the US
We went for ice-creams afterwards – because I want them to see democracy in action as a momentous occasion.
- by Amelia Lester
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I finally found a wellness retreat I didn’t want to retreat from
Not all wellness retreats are about colonics, calisthenics and green juice.
- by Amelia Lester
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The final push I needed to leave Twitter for good
Like a dive bar without the sticky floor, Twitter was a place where weirdos and journos tried out bad jokes and sometimes even made friends. Then Elon came in.
- by Amelia Lester
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Interrupting isn’t necessarily rude – it’s just ‘conversational overlapping’
There’s now a new term for butting in when someone’s talking – and sometimes, it’s considered good manners.
- by Amelia Lester
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