Recognize the photograph above? It adorns walls, computer screens and websites for psychiatrists and financial planners. It’s also on shower curtains, tote bags, maxi dresses, neck gaiters and ruffled bathing suits. Though seemingly too beautiful to be real, the scene depicts an actual place. It’s Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, one of the most famous sites in
Month: January 2021
When Auzerais Bellamy was a kid growing up in Hayward, California, a church friend of her mom gave her a homemade pecan praline she never forgot. This Proustian moment translated, many years later, into Bellamy’s pursuit of her own dessert perfection. After 10 years of development, she hit on the winner: a blondie topped with
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY NATALIA RAMOS Brazilian chef Alex Atala speaks posesg an interview with AFP … [+] at his DOM restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 13, 2013. The DOM restaurant was chosen as the second best in Latin America by international industry experts, including representatives of the region’s most influential
Columbia Hillen A sun-kissed city close to the Mediterranean with elegant buildings, spacious squares, and a cluster of art galleries and museums, it’s no wonder Montpellier has become a popular French holiday destination. Here are a few tips for things to see and do in this pretty Languedoc city. Columbia Hillen Where To Stay For the
(CNN) — New galleries due to open in London’s Imperial War Museum later this year will challenge commonly held views about the Holocaust, with a focus on the “ordinary” people who carried out the atrocity. The Second World War and Holocaust Galleries will explore themes of persecution, escalation, the development of violence toward Jewish people,
A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 and United Airlines A320 Airbus on seen approach to San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco. Louis Nastro | Reuters United Airlines said the jobs of roughly 14,000 employees are at risk when a second round of federal aid expires this spring, the latest sign of how the industry is struggling
These are unusual times, and the state of affairs can change quickly. Please check the latest guidance before travelling. Our writer visited these hotels prior to the pandemic. The Amalfi Coast, with its picturesque villages teetering vertically above the sparkling sea and celebrated ‘road of a 1,000 bends’ that weaves thrillingly in and out of
2020 was the year that made us all cry “uncle.” In Napa, many winemakers lost the entire vintage from smoke taint due to a series of fires that, sadly, have become the new normal. Some lost their homes, their winery buildings, and their vines themselves. Christi and Dave Ficeli, co-founders of C. Elizabeth Wines, are
(CNN) — If you’ve been tempted to pick up one of the dilapidated houses offered for sale in Italy for little more than $1 but had second thoughts about the hassle of renovating it, one town has an offer that might just tempt you. Biccari, deep in the southeastern region of Puglia, is also selling
Rome (CNN) — Medieval architects, deserted towns and remote countryside — what sounds like the ingredients for a horror movie could actually be the recipe for the perfect Covid-era hotel. Since the 1990s, Italy has been pioneering a tourism model known as “albergo diffuso” — or scattered hotel. These involve installing a full hotel into
These are unusual times, and the state of affairs can change quickly. Please check the latest guidance before travelling. Our writer visited these hotels prior to the pandemic. Bologna combines the welcoming cosiness of porticoed pavements and colourful food markets with the impressive grandeur of historic towers and majestic palazzi within a compact medieval heart.
Bien Nacido Vineyards Bien Nacido Estates There is one vineyard that stands out—way out—when it comes to single vineyard designated wines: Bien Nacido. A Single Vineyard Superstar This spot is the source for 15,000 single vineyard designated wine releases over the course of its 43 year history. This includes estate wines made the proprietor, the
Jan. 29th, 2021 Having covered and traveled to the world’s most alluring and luxurious resorts for over 20 years now, it is rare that we add any new properties to our personal list of the best of the best. And yet after our recent visit to Malliouhana, Auberge Resorts Collection in Anguilla we did just
(CNN) — Airport security screeners are finding guns at US checkpoints at about twice the rate they did in 2019, according to new Transportation Security Administration data. TSA said it found about 10 firearms per million passengers in 2020, compared to five per million passengers in 2019. The agency said it found 3,257 guns in
A man receives a nasal swab COVID-19 test at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid a coronavirus surge in Southern California on December 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The U.S. on Tuesday started requiring travelers to show negative Covid-19 tests before flying to the
These are unusual times, and the state of affairs can change quickly. Please check the latest guidance before travelling. Our writer visited these hotels prior to the pandemic. To stay in a castle is to wake up in one of England’s fascinating feats of history. Battlements, suits of armour, moated forts, heavy drapes, four-poster beds,
Irish Steel Cut Oats with honey Credit: Flahavan’s A Flahavan’s advertisement from 1939 Credit: Flahavan’s Oats are a way of life for the Flahavan family. Their business dates back to 1785, a time when most villages in Ireland had their own small mill that exclusively serviced the immediate locality. “Farmers and their families would bring
(CNN) — A Taiwanese man has been fined $1 million New Taiwan Dollars ($35,000) for repeatedly breaking his home quarantine. The unnamed man, who lives in Taichung in central Taiwan, was doing a home quarantine in his apartment building after returning from a business trip to mainland China and violated it at least seven times,
(CNN) — British people arriving home from 30 “high risk” countries will have to undergo a 10-day hotel quarantine at their own expense, as the United Kingdom tightens border controls to try to curb one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. Announcing the measure, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the tougher new rules would
Please note our writers visited these hotels prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Independent and stylish boutique hotels offer an added layer of charm that so many larger chain hotels miss out on. If it’s a lavish breakfast inside a 29-room historic townhouse, a quiet cocktail in a leafy garden by the river, or just somewhere
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