Stays brings together Foodie Goes Travel stories about hotels, villas and other forms of hospitality encountered first-hand.

I am interested in properties that reveal something about where they are — through architecture, landscape, restoration, food, art, service or the people behind them. A hotel can provide comfort, but it can also offer a way of reading a city, a landscape or a culture differently.

These are therefore not conventional hotel reviews. Each story begins with the experience of staying, then looks beyond the room to ask what the property contributes to an understanding of its destination.