Saturday is tomorrow and that always makes me excited because it means I know what I’m going to have for lunch… (ok, well maybe not every Saturday but one can dream and hope). London’s Borough Market is one of the great wonders of the world and it is almost on my doorstep. While every stall […]
Florence was my home many moons ago, but it will always seem like a second home. Although I go back frequently, I just revisited the city with the three friends I shared an apartment with then. We ate at our favorite restaurants, went to our favorite churches and museums but, of course, left time for […]
My oh my…when you land in Naples at night, you are taken for a ride (literally) by the taxi driver, almost left at a spot that is not your hotel, miss your dinner reservation, ask the hotel to recommend something sure they are going to send you somewhere dodgy, make your way there through the […]
After a day and a half spent in Bangkok Airport trying to get to Laos while flights were being cancelled left and right, We finally made it… but to Chiang Mai! For some reason, Thai pilots have a really hard time landing in Luang Prabang. (They almost wouldn’t let us off the plane but a […]
Was planning to go to Paris for the sales, but was diverted to Antwerp instead. Home of Rubens, Dries Van Notes and frites – ok by me! Invited a few other shoppers along and a girl’s weekend was born. Getting to Antwerp Hopped an empty Eurostar to Brussels and then a connecting train to Antwerp […]
As far as everyone I talked to was concerned, there were only two reasons to set foot in Reggio di Calabria: to see the famous Riace Bronzes and to get the boat to Sicily. Yet, Gabriele D’Annunzio called it “Il più bel chilometro d’Italia.” Reggio also produced the visionary, Gianni Versace. There had to be […]