Where Canada Magazine has selected its top ten attractions for Canadian summer travel in 2007. Many are brand new; others have been renovated or are celebrating significant milestones. Top 10 New Attractions for Summer 2007 (in alphabetical order): 1. Atlantic Jazz Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia: One of Atlantic Canada’s biggest musical events has added three…
I like cities in the summer. Whether it’s strolling through New York’s Central Park or taking a passenger ferry in Vancouver’s False Creek, it’s liberating to be freed of winter wardrobes and worries. If you’re headed to Toronto, the Fairmont Royal York’s Green Getaway package is a fun, eco-friendly vacation option.
Sylvia Main, owner of Victoria, BC’s historic Fairholme Manor Inn, has created a beautiful cookbook featuring her very best breakfast and brunch recipes. The elegantly designed book, Fabulous Fairholme: Breakfasts & Brunches, is highlighted by dozens of photographs of the inn’s breakfast and brunch offerings, along with the inn and its lush gardens. The cookbook…
I’m not a big shopper. It’s not that I don’t like to shop, I just like all the stuff in between better. Seeing a play or a movie, going for a leisurely lunch and maybe having a spa treatment or two before heading home. That’s shopping. Now fashion mavens, girlfriends and mothers and daughters seeking…
Two summers ago, my husband and I plus two friends decided to do our own personal Tour de France. No surprise, with our last name, that it quickly became known as the Tour de Frause. I checked into a lot of bike tours, and what I was attracted to at Le Vieux Moulin Bicycle Touring…
Inspired by the silk escape maps issued to Allied airmen during WWII, Map Scarves are now available for fashion conscious travelers. The silk gold-tone scarves feature detailed city maps of London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Vienna, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. They “cover” all the major sights and attractions, along with a few…
One of my favorite places on the planet is the province of Quebec in Canada. No matter what the season, its beauty, hospitality, fine food and accommodations make for the perfect weekend getaway — or hopefully longer. In the summer, it’s all about festivals. One of the newest ones is the 2007 SAQ New France…
The Whitney Museum of American Art is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The Whitney’s Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era exhibition revisits the unprecedented explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early ’70s. The exhibition…
Several years ago, our family spent four nights on Australia’s Hamilton Island to “take a vacation from our vacation” from the rest of the continent. It was a welcome relief to do nothing but have fun and soak up the sun. Now that there’s a brand new spa opening up on the island, all the…
Like a lot of people, I often rely on the advice and suggestions of family and friends. So when Eric Lindsay of Los Angeles e-mailed me about his recent stay with his wife at the Viceroy Santa Monica, I asked him to send me a review. Eric is an accomplished musician and composer, and he…
After nearly two weeks of driving and barging through Ireland, what a delight to spend our final night at a beautiful hotel less than two miles from Dublin International Airport. With an early morning flight back home to Seattle, we wanted to be close to the airport. I wasn’t expecting anything special when we booked…
Two summers ago I was in Chicago during a heat wave. Trying to escape the inferno, I ducked into Borders Books and Music on State Street. They were having a drawing for $25 tickets for the musical WICKED. I put my name in, got lucky, and not only did I escape the searing heat but…