Ideal Magazine

There are only so many houseplants a new homeowner can be gifted before their place starts to look less like a home and more like a garden centre with a sofa. The pot-plant-and-a-card routine is well meaning, but it rarely gets r...

Croatia’s second city Split has a reputation problem, and it is the Riva’s fault. Sit down anywhere along that palm-lined waterfront and you will pay some of the highest prices on the Croatian coast for food that would struggle to justify half of it. The city know...

The Palermo of received wisdom is chaos: markets burping and bellowing at seven in the morning, a bap of boiled veal spleen fried in lard for breakfast, and an aperitivo of salt-crystal Birra Messina before the Angelus has rung out over the rooftops. When it ...

Last updated July 2026

Islington, it’s safe to say, is a place you can expect to eat and drink well. The home of the champagne socialist and champagne football, of

Some Parisian neighbourhoods you visit for a single landmark and then leave. The Marais isn’t one of them. Spread across the 3rd and 4th