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16 Hours in Singapore
Amsterdam in August
East, Central & West Berlin
A Miami Stopover
Oslo in May
Prague in January
A Week in Melbourne
Q3 2026
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+5
Oct 31, 2026
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5 min read
Using inKind at Harvest, near Harvard Business School: a $151.13 lunch, an earlier promotion, and the cost of buying again.
+4
Sep 30, 2026
6 min read
How I turn a monthly U.S.-only credit into restaurant spending I’ll actually use, and why that still doesn’t necessarily make the card worth keeping.
Amex Platinum
Sep 22, 2026
We built our only evening in Miami around one restaurant reservation. It ended up shaping the hotel, the neighborhood and most of what we did with the stopover.
Fiji
Aug 19, 2026
4 min read
I prepaid US$635 of expiring Hilton Aspire resort credits toward a dinner in Fiji. Two months later, it was time to see whether the money was actually there.
Hyatt
Aug 1, 2026
A chance visit to Hyatt Regency London Olympia led to Idalia, historic Pillar Hall and the hidden Pepperbird speakeasy as London’s Olympia district continues its transformation.
