Tag: Travel
16 Sep
Blogging is easy when you are in wifi and have the time; it is hard otherwise. Africa doesn’t lend itself well to blogging as, so often,...
30 Aug
If you spend as much time traveling in steerage as I do, it behooves you to travel smart. Everyone has a travel tip to make airport life, this...
6 Aug
I love summer for its warm weather, tropical storms, dress down Fridays, outdoor markets, tasty tomotos and ripe fruit, zinneas in riotous colors. And...
3 Aug
“It is alpine meadows that I dream of….” “I’ll take you there.” “I am too old. I cannot manage. ...
31 Jul
We arrived in Tulum after having passed through the charming town of Valledolid and skirting Coba, a mystical archaeological site that is still...
29 Jul
The drive from Merida to the Coast is a mere 3 hours on a two-lane highway, one paid and the other free. Much more fun to drive on the “libre”...
29 Jul
It has been many years since I have visited Merida, a city I remember fondly for its ochre reds, bouganvilea bowers and delicious food. We stayed...
28 Jul
One of the prettiest shops – and there are a few – in Merida, Yucatan’s nearly 500 year old city, is Coqui Coqui. Selling scented...
21 Jul
Mauro Stoppa, captain of Eolo, one of the few remaining bragozzo in Venice, is a charming character. Captain, guide and chef, Mauro will take...
16 Jul
Perhaps the true test of any kind of love is that it endures in all seasons.
11 Jul
Willing Foot, Lisa Lindblad’s travel website offering smart, well-designed travel for active and curious travelers, has designed a collection...
29 Jun
The secret in travel is that it is much harder to know the house, restaurant, shop or hotel that is delicious, small, well-run, character-filled,...
27 Jun
Istanbul is one of the great cities and one to which travelers with diverse interests are drawn. There is certainly the romance and history,...
25 Jun
Luxury in travel is defined by who you meet what you see when you have the encounter and how it comes to pass… a reward at the end of a...
31 May
Located just over an hour west of Dublin, Ballyfin is a spectacular Regency mansion that has been lovingly handled. After 8 years of painstaking...
29 May
The Five Senses of Garzon Image: fading grace, white dusty roads, peeling facades and rusting junkyards, bruised skies and rainbows Sound:...
7 May
Going to New Orleans is like going to another country. The city has a style and a sense of self utterly its own. Never is the generous character...
27 Apr
Exquisite, formal, detailed, respectful, restrained The complexity of Japan is puzzling yet bewitching Calm, warm, sensual, organic, poetic,...
26 Feb
The current show at New York’s The Jewish Museum, The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, is a wonderful portrait....
23 Feb
Tell me the stories. Speak to me of the past, that I might better appreciate the now. Repeat for me the orations and whispered conversations...
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