“It’s a veritable Pueblo Magico,” I say to myself as I step from my black car at Four Seasons Resort Cabo San Lucas at Cabo del Sol, delighted to arrive. This year-old hotel, deftly wedged along the craggy golden corridor between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas on the Baja Peninsula, feels like […]
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At Theo’s Lounge and Bar in Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna, I close my eyes and time travel — if just for a moment. The buzzy lobby bar, though utterly contemporary, manages to recall the soul of turn-of-the-century Vienna with scintillating precision. Enveloped in the former courtyard of a Neo-Renaissance palace where horse drawn carriages once took a
Vail isn’t like any other Colorado ski town. Uniquely, it smacks of Italy’s Dolomites and those storybook Italian mountain villages that edge Austria’s border. There’s a reason for it. Vail was the brainchild of Pete Seibert, a super skier who served in World War II as part of the US Army’s skiing soldiers — the storied
Perhaps we’ve all felt it: that nagging urge for change, redefinition, new pathways and deeper understandings. That’s when India calls. A vastly resplendent country, prodigiously textured, outrageously technicolored, spellbindingly ancient, ever welcoming and mysterious; it manages to be both a gloriously indulgent sensory overload and a calmingly clear connection to that proverbial search for the
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Vivian steps boldly through Shangri-La Paris’ original iron gates, into the discrete courtyard and past the hotel’s elaborately carved facade to enter a glamorous, domed-topped marble foyer— as hell-bent as a princess. Dancing confidently through the former home of Prince Roland Bonaparte as only a nearly-three-year-old-toddler can, her pig-tails bobbing, the liveried doormen at her beck
The skies are ink-smudge grey and the snow looks like falling feathers when I shuffle gingerly from my Spa Suite (room 23 on the corner that overlooks the infinity pool, lake and spa) to submerge in a hot tub by frozen Lake Massawippi. At remote Manoir Hovey, a five-star Relais & Châteaux estate hidden amongst dense woods in the
If you’ve ever been in a museum in front of a work of art by Pablo Picasso and wanted to reach out and touch it, then you’ll know how I felt when I met Dominique Sassi, a sprightly octogenarian ceramicist from Antibes who worked alongside Picasso in Vallauris for more than 20 years. As his
