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17 Dec

Meditations on Travel #6

  Travel is a tale unfolding, a journey toward the center, a peeling away of the visible to reach the ineffable. Who doesn’t...

17 Dec

Looking Back/Looking Forward (2)

AFRICA! I spent three weeks in South Africa recently and returned with these gems – three world-class, small museums, inspiring contemporary...

16 Dec

Looking Back/Looking Forward

These wonderful holiday weeks are unique – the time of the year when, almost simultaneously, we reflect on past months and anticipate...

15 Dec

Country Cooking

Each person has his own window through which he likes to view a culture.  Some choose cathedrals and museums and others markets and materials....

14 Dec

Wish You Were Here?

 

12 Dec

The Upper House – Hong Kong

It seems almost unfaithful to even talk about using any other hotel in Hong Kong than the Peninsula or the Oriental, so high a bar have they...

11 Dec

The Best Way to Travel…

… is with a friend.

11 Dec

El Bulli – Irresistible

1961. It all began with a minigolf installation… Doctor Hans Schilling, a German homeopathic doctor, and his wife Marketta, Czechoslovakian...

10 Dec

Anissa Helou – a New Friend

A lovely mutual friend, Mei Zhang, who is the founder and owner of Wild China, the best purveyor of interesting trips there, introduced me to...

9 Dec

Mumbai We Got Your Back

Co-authored by an adorable friend of mine, Morty Singer, To India With Love is the book I would have liked to have written!  I don’t...

7 Dec

Island of the Blessed

Only a place that carries the confidence of its own originality and beauty can introduce itself with a quote from Herodotus – “Oases...

3 Dec

Ski Safari

  Does Pascal smell snowcoming? No, no of course not. Then again I can’t help wondering if he mighthave some sixth sense for Alpine weather. After...

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