Tag: Travel
20 Jan
My favorite hotel architect is Jean-Michel Gathy, one of the three architects who has designed AmanResort’s properties and the choice...
20 Jan
Six Senses Zighy Bay, secreted away on the Sultanate of Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, is a retreat from the full-on materialism of Dubai....
20 Jan
I drove back early to Dubai from Zighy bay, Six Senses Hideaway on Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, to catch my midday plane back to Oman’s...
18 Jan
I couldn’t quite believe it. 36 hours after I had left the snows of New York, I was dining beachfront en plein air, in an Italian restaurant...
14 Jan
I will be traveling to the Arabian Peninsula and will be posting from there over the next ten days. The mission is to visit three countries...
8 Jan
Manhattan has, as extraordinary as it is for us who live here to believe, been brought to its knees by a snowstorm. The season’s leaden...
26 Dec
There is a Corsican saying: “If you live in Corsica, when you die and go to Paradise, you will be disappointed.” Black and green schist,...
15 Dec
Glancing at my neighbor’s newspaper, Corse Matin, on my flight from Nice to Calvi, I read the banner “Trois morts en Haut Corse” –...
13 Dec
The Greeks called it Kalliste, “the most beautiful.” The 400,000 who live on Corsica swell to 2 million in the summer season. But...
12 Dec
There is a saying, “If you live in Corsica, when you die and go to Paradise, you will be disappointed.” At 180 kilometers long and...
7 Dec
It’s nice to know the right people and, most importantly, the nice people. I am in Cannes at travel meetings and, because of their kindness...
24 Nov
Across the wide plains of Argentina and Uruguay, where cattle raising is a way of life, men who work the livestock are called gaucho. The mainstay...
16 Nov
You won’t find top 10 lists or tourism board-approved itineraries in this online-only publication. Rather, Nowhere is all about the experience...
1 Nov
I wrote about Brigitta in my last posting on the Serengeti..how Shep and I lived for 18 months in that beautiful land keeping company with a...
31 Oct
In 1972, on a street in Nairobi, I met a charming filmmaker who was heading down to the Serengeti to make a film on the life cycle of the Cheetah....
22 Oct
Poised between two worlds: the sedentary one of village and farm, the other, on the hoof, across an ocean of sand. If the desert appears empty,...
19 Oct
Berlin Wall: 10.16.10
17 Oct
We have found two classic purveyors who we never fail to visit on our trips to Argentina and Uruguay. Benitez is the talabarteria where I...
13 Oct
An hour and a half from our home in Pueblo Garzon, straight up the Atlantic Coast on the way to southern Brazil, is the slightly trashy, quite...
26 Sep
The Grande Dame of Florence’s hotels is the Villa San Michele, located a short ten minute drive from the city center on the lush hillside...
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