In the travel business, the old saying goes that if you have not been in 10 years, then you have not been! With so many gorgeous and classic properties, both old and new, I recently spent several days touring the Amalfi coast checking out very special properties in Sorrento, Ravello, Amalfi, Praiano, and Positano. Here …
I know instantly when a place has changed me: I feel an unexplained tinge of melancholy at the end of a journey. As I rode along the aptly named “Ruta del Fin del Mundo” (The Route to the End of the World) for the 5 hour drive back to the closest commercial airport in Punta …
Without doubt one of my top favorite cities in Europe! Always great energy, spectacular food, bold art and architecture, wonderful places to stay, and any city on a beach gets my vote - the best of all worlds! Barcelona also has some of the best food markets in the world. Though many travelers love La …
**Hospice du Rhône is back! Contact us to book this amazing event in Spring 2015** This week I had the privileged opportunity to visit this culinary mecca in the Tennesse Smokies where I spent quality time with the James Beard award winning chef, the master gardener, the baker, the cheese maker, the forger, the butcher, …
India is sound and color, chaos and peace, tradition and innovation. The subcontinent holds a variety of contrasting images, from Kipling-esque visions of spectacular, carved temples and gleaming marble palaces, to lonely Himalayan lamaseries and far-flung dusty villages where council meetings are held under the shade of a banyan tree. Nearly one sixth of all the …
This is one where you are just going to have to trust me and I promise you will be rewarded handsomely. If you have 7 days to spend and are open on your destination, you must consider Uruguay! Here is my take: For East Coast Americans an overnight flight to the Uruguayan Capital Montevideo hardly …
Continue reading Uruguay, Jose Ignacio – Gauchos, Beaches, Food, Wine, Art, and Raw Beauty
I travel for two reasons – it is my passion and because it is how I earn my living. My bucket list of "must-do” adventures continues to grow each year. Each time I check one destination off the list, I seem to add 10 more places that had not been high in the ranking. So …
Continue reading Ancient Turkey and Greece aboard Silversea Cruise
Who does not love a trip to wine country and I do mean ANY wine country. They are all beautiful! The terroir – the combination of climate, terrain, geology – whatever it is that helps grapes and everything else thrive is simply spectacular. Of course, it helps to love wines, but that too is not …
Continue reading Napa Valley: Glorious Wine, Food, and a Charming Trailer Park
“There was never another time like that first time in Africa” – The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway, 1936 Day 1: Arrive in Nairobi. First impression: Kenyans must be the loveliest people in the world. Even those who have nothing give smiles that melt your heart – smiles that can’t be expressed in words, smiles …