A Traditional Feast In a Norman Castle. The Earl of Thomond greets me and my two accompanying wenches — Carol and Mary — at the gate of Bunratty Castle. He points overhead: “If you misbehave hot oil will … Continue reading →
Zane Was America’s fiirst millionaire author. Little did Zane Grey know, as he penned over 80 western novels in his home on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California, that the house he designed in 1929 would … Continue reading →
Red Carnation Hotel at The Beach. Oysters are served at the Oyster Bar. Oysters are a health food and with modern refrigeration they can be eaten year around. But for truly fresh oysters check yourself into … Continue reading →
Click photo for Cirque du Soleil. LOVE’s Lobby. The spark that ignited LOVE, the new Cirque du Soleil/Beatles musical at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was a meeting between the late George Harrison … Continue reading →
Zululand Midlands Meander With Spa. On the 80 Kms KwaZulu-Natal Midlands Meander road trip from the Pietermaritzburg Airport my InStyle Tours driver, Carl, spots on a rolling hillock a grazing herd of Blesbok, or White Buck, so named … Continue reading →
A New “Old” Legend ! A friendly valet took my car. Two kind bellmen eagerly helped with my bags. I began to feel like a Hollywood starlet. And why not? This was La Costa, the place where the rich and famous … Continue reading →
Seafood and Sand on Florida’s Gulf Coast. “Nostalgia” is a word I wouldn’t normally associate with Florida, but a recent sojourn on the Gulf Coast got me thinking about old times down South. A secluded beach … Continue reading →
A Red Carnation On The Greens. Ashford Castle is a Red Carnation Collection Hotel. Visit www.redcarnationhotels.com The regal Ashford Castle core was begun by the Anglo-Norman de Burgo family in 1228, but the ancient Celtics had lived in the area for over … Continue reading →
The Wauwinet Hotel’s Topper’s Is Tops on Nantucket. Usually, when one refers to a review by the ubiquitous restaurant guide Zagat, it means their “surveyors” have eaten at and rated a particular establishment. And like the coveted Michelin … Continue reading →
It is Friday at noon and Robin and I are sailing across Nantucket Sound on the Grey Lady, Hy-Line Cruises third generation, water-jet catamaran, a high-speed ferry that will take us from Hyannis to Nantucket in just one … Continue reading →
I’ve been Hexxed. Yes, a spell was cast over my husband and myself, the night we went to celebrate our anniversary at this alluring restaurant, Hexx Kitchen + Bar. We were enraptured the minute we entered the restaurant … Continue reading →
Wild Bill Hickok Plays His Last Hand. I grew up in these Black Hills — and the history of the Old West hell raising mining camp of Deadwood is embedded into these hills as deep as the ore … Continue reading →
There’s gold in them thar hills. There are flakes and nuggets in the streams and fools’ gold in the ore body, but the real gold is in the fall foliage around Spearfish Canyon Lodge, embedded deeply in … Continue reading →
Home Of Zulu Kingdom Royalty. Welcome from a Zulu king and queen. Tonight I am resting where the Zulu kings slumbered, but in a modern and private Umntwana Honeymoon Suite on the banks of … Continue reading →
Check Inn To The Black orchid Room. Labor Day heralds the end of summer, and just under the wire I am fortunate to spend three days and two nights at Century House, the longest continuously running guesthouse on … Continue reading →
Grand Hyatt Hotel Martinez on the French Riviera. For two weeks each year A-list celebrities flood the halls and check into the historic Grand Hyatt Hotel Martinez on the French Riviera in Cannes for what the French call, … Continue reading →
Located In The Heart Of The Strip. Las Vegas, as young to the world as it might be does have a vibrant and storied history. From its earliest days in the mid-1800s, when a group of Mormon settlers … Continue reading →
Camp Jubilani No Longer Offers Elephant Rides. The Hoedspruit (Hat River in Africaan) airport is a military base for the South Africa Air Force and also an emergency landing field for the space shuttle; my South African Airways … Continue reading →
The Golden Isles of Georgia. I had never visited this enclave of America. Not surprising, for it is unfamiliar to Westerners like me. For us “the Southeast Coast” more likely calls up Charleston, Savannah or Hilton Head to the north, Florida to the south. Elegantly settled into … Continue reading →
Click photo For Fiamma Trattoria. There is a saying in Italy, “Only tourists eat bad food.” So if you are a tourist in Las Vegas, you must visit Fiamma Trattoria at the MGM — no, not because … Continue reading →
