Laura Millar

Metro Newspaper UK • 26th September 2022

We Will Rock You

As the Hard Rock Group celebrates its 50th anniversary, Laura Millar is given exclusive access to a secret vault holding its rock and roll memorabilia....

Metro Newspaper UK • 25th July 2022

Kissimmee, Quick!

Heading to Orlando this summer? Stay far from the crowds at this quirky nearby town, says Laura Millar

Business Traveller • 17th February 2022

LA Story

Now that the US has fully reopened to UK travellers, the City of Angels is set to put on a dazzling show for visitors in the post-Covid era, with a host of new openings, exhibitions and events...

Metro Newspaper UK • 25th January 2021

How's this for an office?

With workations set to be a growing trend this year, why not do business from the beach in Antigua, suggests Laura Millar

Surrey Life • 13th February 2020

Land of Milk and Honey

The lush, charming New England state of Vermont is bursting with delicious produce; Laura Millar tries to eat her way through it

Evening Standard • 10th January 2020

Wax lyrical inside the Latin quarter

It’s hosting the Hay Festival, but not only book fans will love this colourful Colombian city, says Laura Millar

Metro Newspaper UK • 6th January 2020

Rise and shine

Struggling with Dry January already? Be thankful you didn't live through Prohibition, America's 13-year dry spell, which came into effect 100 years ago this month. Laura Millar heads to Tennessee to find how illegal moonshine turned into a booming booze industry…

Evening Standard • 19th December 2019

Moxy East Village, New York

Laura Millar finds her inner rock star at the latest outpost of the hip Moxy brand in one of Manhattan’s most boho neighbourhoods

CityAM • 29th November 2019

Realise your cowgirl fantasies on a trek into the deserts of Palm Springs

Just outside the kitsch Californian town of Palm Springs is a vast expanse of desert, just made for making cowgirl fantasies come true, finds Laura Millar… The wooden sign swinging in the breeze proclaims I’m at Smoketree Stables, just a short drive south of Palm Springs. Beyond the Western-movie-set compound of wooden buildings, stables, saddles hung on fences, and practice arenas sprawls the vast, rocky landscape of the Indian Canyons, carpeted in green and brown scrub, and peppered with the

Metro Newspaper UK • 25th November 2019

LA (Insta) story

THEY say La La Land can be riotous fun -but I never expected that to apply so much to colour too. Orange funiculars (like the one above), audacious street art, gleaming waves of reflective steel: it’s all here...

CityAM • 7th October 2019

Bruce Springsteen turned 70 this year. We visit the downbeat seaside town in New Jersey made famous by the Boss...

On the boardwalk of the small seaside town of Asbury Park is a fortune-telling booth, which has been owned by the same family of psychics since 1932. When I visit at ten in the morning, it’s shut...

The Guardian • 24th September 2019

Chasing The Goldfinch: visiting the glamorous locations of the movie

If you fancy following in the footsteps of Theo Decker, the dynamic and charming lead of The Goldfinch, we’ve picked the best things to do in the film’s three starring cities...

Metro Newspaper UK • 16th September 2019

Greetings from Asbury Park

On Monday 23 September, Bruce Springsteen turns 70; Laura Millar visits the once-downbeat New Jersey town the Boss made famous to explore how it’s coming back to life…

Metro Newspaper UK • 13th August 2019

Escape: Exploring Hawaii’s nature, culture, and regal past…

‘YOU’LL see him again in about 15 minutes,’ laughs my guide, Nathan, as we head towards the ancient, hulking volcanic crater that is Diamond Head, one of Honolulu’s best-known features. It’s 6.30am, the languid heat is already beginning to sear the sky, and a lean, tanned, fifty-something man in tight shorts and an even tighter vest has apparently just summited the rock at a sprint and raced back down.

Metro Newspaper UK • 24th June 2019

Escape: 33 hours travelling down Route 66 from Chicago

For a sign with so much significance, it’s not very impressive: small, brown and white, it’s stuck several feet up a pole on the busy corner of Adams Street and Michigan Avenue. But this sign marks the starting point of one of the most iconic roads in the world: Route 66.

Metro Newspaper UK • 15th April 2019

Definitely not the Pitts...

I can’t not ask the question, when my tour of the museum with the artist’s nephew brings us to a stop in front of one of the world’s most iconic paintings: ‘So, did Andy actually eat Campbell’s soup?’

Metro Newspaper UK • 11th March 2019

Welcome to Pioneertown, population 350...

AS I head to my car, parked in the shade of a spiky-branched Joshua tree, I do a double take, suddenly transported to the Wild West. What can only be described as a posse of cowboys on horseback, all dressed John Wayne-style in dark denim, Stetson hats and suede jackets, is moseying on up a dirt track next to me, clouds of dust blooming from under their hooves...

City AM • 4th January 2019

Did you know about Coachella's lesser known art festival?

The locals were… curious. For the past few weeks, as they’d gone about their business around the nine cities that make up Greater Palm Springs, or hiking in the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains, strange things were afoot.

The Scotsman • 22nd September 2018

Cities of the St Lawrence

One’s hip and artsy, the other’s steeped in history; here’s why Montreal and Quebec City make the perfect break, writes Laura Millar

The Express • 8th September 2018

Having a whale of a time in Quebec

At first, there's just a whole lot of frustrating nothing, as far as the eye can see, as my group bobs gently on the quiet surface of the water, sat expectantly in a sturdy Zodiac boat...