The annual Paris couture show that ended on March 6 blends pagentry, boldness, lunacy and a style watch for global fashionistas.
See artist and author Gladys Perint Palmer’s candid jottings in her “Paris Sketchbook” as “the fashion world continued to mix the topical and the trivial, an experie ce captured in these exclusive drawings.”
This may be one of the world’s most beautiful spas. Just 90 minutes from Florence and 125 miles from Rome, Fonteverde Spa Resort is the perfect alternative to renting a vacation villa in the Tuscany area of Italy. Situated in the majestic rolling hills just south of Siena, people have been enjoying this venue since…
The outrageously priced sandwich appears on the Cliveden House hotel in Taplow, Berkshire, UK menu these days and weighs in at an incredible half a kilo. It was also thought to have been a favourite of Edward, Duke of Windsor and his wife Duchess of Windsor, formerly Wallis Simpson. Here are the ingredients- • Iberico…
I’ve chewed on sports bars for running. I’ve wolfed down sports bars for hiking. But I’ve never thought of a chocolate sports bar to ward off seasickness after scuba diving or when riding in a boat on open rough seas. Fortunately, Dive Bar is a convenient, high energy snack bar that’s delicious, nutritous and created…
Next stop: Sky Dive Deland, a highly revered skydiving facility, is filled with elite members of an award winning sky-diving team. Also, we found out that Deland actually developed the tandem method which allows novice jumpers to experience the thrill of skydiving while safely harnessed to an instructor. (Word on the street is that Tom…
Note: This is the second of a multi-part series on Czech Spas. Last December I discovered another earth-shakingly incredible group of spas. I was invited to Prague to cover their famous Christmas Market. This runs for the month of December and the market was filled with European tourists, stocking up like it was Costco. It…
The wildest, wackiest and most entertaining Halloweens in my life were spent at the corner of Market and Castro Streets in San Francisco’s notorious gay district, AKA The Castro. Tonight, Halloween in the Castro III begins with the Annual March of Light Parade at 7:00 p.m. As this parade of costumed revelers enters the Castro…