Where and when the light works at Lake Como’s most photogenic spots, from Villa del Balbianello’s balustrade to Varenna’s lovers’ walk at sunset.
Supporting Guide
The Villas and Gardens of Lake Como
A calm, practical guide to Lake Como’s four essential villas and gardens, with hours, tickets, seasons, and how to plan a villa-hopping day.
The Best Things to Do on Lake Como
From the classic boat day and the Greenway walk to Brunate, Vezio castle, lidos and Isola Comacina, a calm, practical guide to Lake Como.
Getting Around Lake Como by Boat (and the Ferries Explained)
How to use Lake Como’s ferries, from the slow battello to the hydrofoil and car ferry, plus day passes, private boats, buses and the funicular.
How to Get to Lake Como (and Which Station to Use)
How to reach Lake Como by train from Milan and the airports, which station to use, and why arriving by rail beats driving every time.
Cannes Film Festival Parties and Nightlife
The bass reaches you before the boat does. It travels over the water, low and patient, from somewhere out past the buoys where the yachts sit at anchor with their decks lit gold. May, in Cannes, and the town has…
The Yacht Scene at the Cannes Film Festival
At dusk the tenders begin their crossing. Small, low, running without lights until they clear the moorings, then a lamp at the stern and a wake folding out behind them across the flat water of the bay. They carry people…
Where to Eat in Cannes During the Festival
The market smells of it first. Peaches split too ripe, wet basil, the iron tang of fish laid out on ice a street back from the port. By nine the light is already white over the water, and the town…
What to Wear to the Cannes Film Festival
The morning of a premiere, the light comes off the water white and flat. The Croisette smells of salt and warm stone and the diesel of the tender boats. Somewhere a garment bag is already hanging in a hotel window,…
Where to Stay for the Cannes Film Festival
The Croisette in May holds a particular light in the early evening, gold sliding into rose over the water, the palms throwing long shadows across a pavement already thick with people in gowns they have no intention of sitting down…
How to Get to Cannes
The plane banks over the water and the coast arrives before the city does. A thin ribbon of pale buildings, the hills behind them still holding the last of the morning haze, the sea going from slate to something closer…
The Palais des Festivals and the Red Carpet
The carpet goes down in the late afternoon, when the light off the Croisette has gone the color of weak tea, and for an hour or so it belongs to no one. Men in gloves smooth it flat with their…
