Sacred Valley Project

I have an interesting and very cool young woman, Rebecca, working with me who has equally dynamic friends.  Alex Ball, founder of the Sacred...

The Magic Button

Certain things tickle my fancy, while also being quite profound. http://make-everything-ok.com/

Les Maisons Marines d’Huchet

I have a bucket list of places that I want to see, and Huchet has been right up there since I first came across photos of it.  It has that...

Bordeaux: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Thanks to the unity of its urban and architectural expression, both classical and neoclassical and unchanged stylistically over the last two...

Gardens of Life: Eugenie-Les-Bains

There is a classic in the Southwest of France, 1. 5 hours from the renewed city of Bordeaux, an hour from Pau at the foot of the Pyrenees and...

Tertulia – Buen Provecho!

It was like greeting an old friend. Last night, dining at Tertulia, I watched Chef Seamus Mullen stoking his fire, winding up and down the grill...

Winter Beauty in Garzon

Camelias: Pueblo Garzon, Uruguay

Garzon in Winter

Meditations #24

Places, like people, have their auras. I have felt this power in the mountains of Mexico, the heart of Java, in the Himalayan foothills and...

Panchoran Retreat

Back in the ’90s, when I was traveling frequently to Bali, I met and became friends with the inimitable Linda Garland.  Hailing from Ireland,...

Kuma Inn – How To Eat

There’s no sign – or, rather, a hand written wonky sign on a grungy street (sorry Ludlow) – so it has been under the radar...

Oberoi Gurgaon

A few months ago, Oberoi opened its newest hotel in Gurgaon, the increasingly sought after business and residential suburb of New Delhi. It’s...