First, Vagablond reported on Jules’ Undersea Lodge in the Florida Keys, a research lab that became a hotel. Next, we told you about Hydropolis, a $550 million underwater complex being built in Dubai. Now, there’s another one in the waterworks — and Poseidon off Eleuthera in the Bahamas –– is being called the world’s first underwater…
On their beautifully designed Website, BlissWorld boldly says “Anything less would be stress.” Now in San Francisco (W Hotel), New York (Soho, Lex & 49th, plus 57th Street), and London, and soon to open in select W Hotels in Los Angeles (Westwood) and Chicago (Lakeshore), Bliss has gobs of style, great design, superior branding, and…
Maybe mimes aren’t your favorite form of street entertainment. But how about jugglers? Stilt walkers? Knife throwers? Magicians? Actors? Storytellers? You name it, the International Festival of Open Air & Street Theater in Gdansk has it. The 9th annual festival runs this year from July 13-17 and the stage is borderless, so the audience is…
From DiveNewsWire.com: Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas will host the annual Discovery Channel SHARK WEEK production for the 10th straight year. Beginning Sunday evening, July 17 at 9 pm EST, the two-hour Mythbusters JAWS Special premieres. Filmed on location earlier this year, the co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage discuss common “shark myths.”
There are two Barrier Reefs in the world and I’ve dived both of them. Everyone knows the Great one in Australia. Not everyone knows its smaller brother in Belize. But it’s one of the reasons that Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly purchased a 104-acre island off Belize’s coast that he plans to develop as a luxury…
In April 2005, a quirky new restaurant opened in Sydney, Australia. The twist? At The Dark Side of Hyde Park, diners eat in total darkness. The Australian restaurant is not the first to explore dining in the dark. But at the Blind Cow Restaurant in Zurich, guests eat in total darkness; the restaurant’s wait staff…
www.AvonWalk.org has inadvertedly created one of the best ways to really see a city –– by walking its streets as you raise millions of collective dollars for Cancer Research that will be poured back into your community. My wife (in the sunglasses) and her two friends named Susan should know. They just walked 26 miles…
Sydney, Australia was voted the world’s number one city for the eighth time in this year’s Travel & Leisure reader’s poll. Bali was voted best island for the fourth time. Long thought to have the friendliest natives, the best beaches, and awe-inspiring natural beauty, thousands venture to Sydney every year and continue to place the…
From USA Today: A half-dozen international airlines –– including British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Air France, Air Canada, and Korean Air –– are spending millions on high-profile designers and billions to revamp uniforms for thousands of flight attendants, all to revive a nearly dormant industry tradition.
The world’s most famous golf tournament begins Thursday in Scotland on the same historic links course where the game was supposedly born six centuries ago. Back in 1873, the first British Open was staged. The ball was smaller. The clubs had wooden shafts. There were no players named “Tigerâ€? or “Vijayâ€?. Jack Nicklaus wasn’t playing…
Where can you find a 60-meter slope with real snow in the summertime? In the BigAir Fukuoka indoor ski and snowboard park, that’s where. The park is located in downtown Fukuoka, at Bayside Place along the Hakata Pier. It’s a huge three-story structure with quarter-pipes, half-pipes during the off-season, and slopes as steep as 13…
I’ve always loved London and its people, so my heart goes out to all who were affected by last week’s bombings. I’m even more sickened to realize that, a few months ago, my wife, daughter and I took the Underground to King’s Cross Station to snap a photo at the Harry Potter Platform 9 3/4….