Four Seasons Love: Four of Our Favourite Properties
The Four Seasons has a fascinating history. When I first arrived in Toronto in the early 1980s the destination hotel to stay, have a drink or be seen at was the Four Seasons in Yorkville. Hand-poured Martinis in the Avenue Bar,...
Provence Beckons!
Traffic on the A9 is light as we head out to Orange, home of the family that includes St. Guilhem, the Dutch royal family, and William of Orange, the King of England. Orange is also home to the only Roman Amphitheater in Europe...
Up the Balinese Mountainside to Ubud
The street today is full of people – dramatically different to anything we’ve seen since we arrived. Nyepi is definitely over. We walk along and find an internet café to do web and email. We know what happens if we don’t...
The Best Places to Golf in New South Wales
New South Wales is not only a beautiful place to visit, but it is also a thriving scene for many aspiring golfers. As Australia moves into fall and North America changes to a COVID spring, there is still plenty of time to up your...
Madrid: Alive and Breathing in Life to its Fullest
Madrid is not one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Much of its historical and cultural history has been torn down to make way for the new. Indeed, it seems to be a city on the verge of the next century, good and bad. The...
Indulge in Welsh Luxury at Llangoed Hall
We don our tweeds and head west into the half sun, half mist of the Brecon Beacons for three days of luxury downtime at Llangoed Hall in the Wye Valley of bucolic Wales. The three-hundred-year-old former country house, now a...
The Prado in One Day
I was merciless yesterday as we did our walking tour of Madrid: although the guidebook told us that the walking tour would take at least two days, we got it done in one (and were our feet complaining loudly last night? You bet...
Club Med Les Arcs Panorama: An Alpine Mountain Paradise
Do you love to indulge in all-inclusive resorts, eat the best food and drink the best wine? Do you love a 360-degree, stunning summer and winter snow-capped mountain views of France’s original “mega-resorts” Les...
Paying the Price for Beautiful Weather in St. Petersburg
After a day of beautiful weather, we pay the price today: it pours with rain almost the entire day. Having visited (or not) the palaces on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, today we turn our attention to sights not yet seen in the...
Day-Tripping to Tallinn, Estonia
The residual hangover from the night before gives us a natural impulse to start our morning late today. We plan to take the hour and a half ferry ride to the medieval town of Tallinn in Estonia this afternoon but we don’t depart...