Slideshows

Kooyu Villas and Santo Pyor, Vanuatu by Helene Ravlich

Guest Contributor | September 3rd, 2010

Sitting at a waterfront table at the Nambawan Café in Port Vila, Vanuatu, I gazed out to sea and coveted the sight before me. Blue skies, even deeper blue sea, and the tallest, most elegant sailing ship I’d ever laid eyes on. Worth a cool USD $100 million, it was the floating home of [...]

Oceania, Slideshows, Vanuatu

Singapore Stopover - The Quincy Hotel

Marion Hume | September 1st, 2010

Photos Courtesy of Quincy Hotel
Hallelujah! A hotel utterly conceived around the understanding that those checking in might be suffering from a common ailment called jet-lag.
The Quincy Hotel, Singapore, ticks all the boxes.
Early check-in to suit arrival times of transworld planes? Check. Super-fast transit from showing passport at front desk to bedroom with blackout blinds, (with [...]

Asia, Hotels We Love, Singapore, Slideshows, Stuff we Love

Alice Needs A Nicotine Patch

Marion Hume | August 25th, 2010

Photos by Peter Hunt
We didn’t do it, but we think we saw who did.
But then again, if you’d been freaked out by a red queen, you might need a quiet puff to calm down too.
We found Alice at Antony, a grand old house in Cornwall that Tim Burton used as a location. After we’d partaken [...]

Europe, Slideshows, United Kingdom

The Grateful Dead Exhibit at The New York Historical Society

Deana Bianco | August 20th, 2010

I am not afraid to admit that I am a Deadhead, so when I heard that The New York Historical Society was hosting an exhibition this summer of artifacts from the forty plus years of The Grateful Dead’s career, I was ecstatic. I decided that the most appropriate time to visit the museum was [...]

Americas, New York, Slideshows, United States

Hotels We Love - Antica Locanda

Katie Lockhart | August 18th, 2010

Finally after many years of working and even living in Milan, I have found a hotel that I would recommend! Antica Locanda is a boutique hotel that has been open since 1926 with 11 rooms that are all different, some with beautiful planted balconies. With buckets of rickety charm and being located in [...]

Europe, Hotels We Love, Italy, Milan, Slideshows, Stuff we Love

Stuff We Love - Driving A Bentley Around The South Of England

Marion Hume | August 10th, 2010

Photos by Peter Hunt
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive,” wrote the Scottish novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson in an age before Easyjet and Ryanair. These days, it is, generally, better to arrive, along with one’s luggage, than it is to travel; except when one is touring in a Bentley.
I don’t even like cars, [...]

Europe, Slideshows, Stuff we Love, United Kingdom

Bedarra Island

Karen Walker | August 6th, 2010

If you were to ask a nutritionist if it’s humanly possible to gain two kilograms in just three days I think he’d say no. However, I can vouch, through personal experience, that it is entirely doable. Such is the magic of the Great Barrier Reef’s Bedarra Island that for weeks after our return I shall [...]

Asia, Australia, Oceania, Slideshows

The Islands of Venice

Marion Hume | August 3rd, 2010

Photos by Peter Hunt
The bargain of Venice is the 7-day Vaporetto ticket at 50 euros - steep to start with, but terrific value if you make a point of chugging up and down the Grand Canal to all the museums (although it would take months to visit them all) and going to as many of [...]

Europe, Italy, Slideshows, Venice

Warhol’s Last Decade at The Brooklyn Museum

Deana Bianco | July 30th, 2010

This month I had the opportunity to experience Target’s First Sunday’s at The Brooklyn Museum. I attended the opening of Andy Warhol’s: The Last Decade and as someone who is a sucker for Mr. Warhol, it was quite an evening. My favorite pieces of his career, which can be seen at the museum, [...]

Americas, New York, New Zealand, Oceania, Slideshows, United Kingdom, United States

Paris Museum of Natural History

Karen Walker | July 16th, 2010

Photos by Peter Hunt
One of my absolute favourite things to do in Paris is to visit The Museum of Natural History. The museum itself takes little time to view and is worth the visit simply for the main gallery of marching animals. Sensational.
Paris Museum of Natural History, 36 Rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 [...]

Europe, France, Oceania, Paris, Slideshows, Stuff we Love

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