RELIVING TRAVEL’S GOLDEN AGE
FROM vintage posters to Venetian galleries and even great restaurants, NEIL SIMPSON reveals how you can still explore the world from your own home during the lockdown.
WE’RE unlikely to be meeting up at traditional holiday resorts any time soon – but you can bring their heydays into your home.
The golden age of travel is revived through a series of vintage posters at kingandmcgaw.
com, promoting everywhere from British holiday resorts such as Whitley Bay to St Moritz in Switzerland. And these classic designs can be printed to order.
If you’re dreaming of further afield, try travelposter.co for posters designed by artist Henry Rivers. They include the Washington Monument and the US capital’s pink cherry blossom, with the collection revealing Rivers’s modern, minimalist take on dozens of world cities.
Art of every variety was the great passion of flamboyant American heiress Peggy Guggenheim who settled in a grand palazzo in Venice after the Second World War. Her former home, now a museum, has gone online amid the coronavirus closure.
In Peggy Guggenheim Comes To You, at guggenheim-venice.it, you can click on short videos of past and (hopefully) future exhibitions. The videos feel like private guided tours – with none of the city’s former crowds obscuring the art.
A dash of Australian inventiveness could get your children through the virtual doors of the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Sydney.
Head to mca.com.au for the curator’s ‘Making ’zines in quarantine’ video. It shows how to make mini-magazines full of news for grandparents or others.
Still dreaming of a family holiday in the future? Get ideas from family-run tour firm
stubbornmuletravel.com. Its Around The World In Six School Holidays suggests the best destinations by season, from Morocco in February mid-term to Christmas in Costa Rica.
If eating out is one of your great joys of travel, you can find inspiration for new adventures with one of Lonely Planet’s illustrated specialist guides.
In Food Trails: 52 Perfect Weekends In The World’s Tastiest Destinations, there are stunning photos of patisseries in Paris, tiny tapas bars in Spain, waterside diners serving clam chowder in Maine, and more.