Travel
Hôtel de la Marine: Monument to the Art of French Living
Travel• April 26, 2019.Paris lives on as Delia von Neuschatz discovers the palatial Hôtel de la Marine, which is currently undergoing a €100 million renovation and will again, in the spring of 2020, begin showcasing the French “art de vivre.”...
La Belle Époque: Splendor in the Past
Travel• March 11, 2019.Whether 1900 or 2000 every generation has its Belle Époque as past centuries end and new ones begin. For author Thomas Mann’s character Gustav Aschenbach in Death in Venice, an obsession with Beauty leads him to the luxuriousness of the Grand Hotel des Bain on Venice’s Lido. Closed for many years, last year COIMA, a […]...
2019 Carnevale Venezia: Blame it on the Moon
Travel• March 6, 2019.Since my Venice architectural reconnaissance was planned as a pre-Carnivale miss-all-the-crowds jaunt, imagine my surprise arriving to find Venice SRO, and then some. Fortunately, decided on the out-of-the-way Santa Croce district’s Hotel San Cassiano, away from the festive, sort of, and far from the 21st century and the 19th. Very olde Venic...
My Valentine from Paris
Travel• March 4, 2019.Dear diary, on the 25th I will be 63 and I have finally been to The City of Light! It’s thanks to two charming young friends. It was a glorious gift and Paris is certainly astonishing! But, I ought to have gone so much sooner. How splendid, though, that on St. Valentine’s Day, dining alone, […]...
A taste of London now; wining & dining at the new Annabel’s
Travel• February 5, 2019.January is a tough month. After the excess of the holiday season, January is marked by temperance, fasting and long, dark nights. One cure for such malaise is having the opportunity to partake in a wine dinner at Annabel’s nightclub in London featuring vintages by Château d’Yquem and Château Cheval Blanc. Annabel’s nightclub on Berkeley [&h...
Treasures of China’s Heritage, Part VII
Travel• January 16, 2019.Treasures of China’s Heritage: Touring with the Global Heritage Fund (Seventh of a Seven-part Series) Taiyuan Some of my best memories of the “Middle Kingdom” include my nine-day tour of historically significant sites with the Palo Alto-based Global Heritage Fund (GHF)—an organization devoted to supporting underdeveloped rural areas worldwi...
Mother Photographing Son 9,000 miles from home
Travel• January 9, 2019.When you haven’t seen your son for months, what’s 22 hours on a plane? Nothing. And when you get there, a 1,400-mile road trip across islands that were among the last to be inhabited by humans? Irresistible. My New York clothes stayed in my closet; I packed for the back of beyond. My son Peter […]...
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