Glitz Not Glam

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...

The Gulf: Dubai

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...

Arabian Peninsula

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...

Brazil’s Coast

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...

Balenciaga’s Beauty

There are two rooms of mannequins in glorious clothes that must be seen at Queen Sofia Spanish Institute on Manhattan’s UES.  The work...

2010 Passion Points

Meditations #16

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,...

Leonardo’s Last Supper

Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway brings new insight into one of the world’s most celebrated masterpieces in his multimedia reverie...

Corsica – Terra Corsa

Glancing at my neighbor’s newspaper, Corse Matin, on my flight from Nice to Calvi,  I read the banner “Trois morts en Haut Corse” –...

Corsica Kalliste

The Greeks called it Kalliste, “the most beautiful.” The 400,000 who live on Corsica swell to 2 million in the summer season.  But...

Corsica

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...

Suite Glamour

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...