Clockwise from left: The Grand Budapest Hotel; a scene from Magic in the Moonlight; The Almost Nearly Perfect People; A notorious second line parade in Treme.
This week in Travel Loot, we're catching up on the year's best travel-y movies, TV shows, and books. Perfect entertainment during the holiday break.
Scandinavia, France, Italy, Zubrowka: This is the week to pick your dream destination and schedule time for armchair travel. Between Christmas and New Year's, things get so quiet that it's easy to find the time — on a cross-country flight, during a few days off — to catch up on the stack of books by the bed and the movies in the queue. If you want a few more, these are the 10 books, TV shows, and movies that transported us this year. Read, watch, download, and go. Wherever you are.
Lively conversations mixed with mouthwatering food and a side of Italian scenery. Grab a bowl of popcorn and catch the follow-up to Michael Winterbottom’s largely improvised 2010 film.
Read: "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia"
They always top the happiness indexes, enjoy universal health care, and have knack for good design. Too good to be true? Maybe, but you'll have to read to find out.
The European nation of Zubrowka may not be real, but we wish it was. Dive into the fictional world of the Grand Budapest Hotel, where a dapper concierge befriends a young and impressionable lobby boy who helps him fight for a priceless painting.
Okay, not technically from 2014, but we discovered it this year and are crazy about it. A post-Katrina look at New Orleans through the eyes of the city’s creative class.
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